Bethel News

"I think it's a genetic thing," says Sharon Friesen Schulz with a smile. "My mother, daughter and I are all singers and songwriters."

A Coast Guard helicopter has flown a fishing boat crewman with a crushed finger more than 100 miles to a clinic in Bethel, Alaska.

Location: Bethel, AK , 07/04/96 This photo was taken in Bethel, AK on July 4, 1996 in celebration of Independence Day.

Medical workers move a patient flown in from a village - accessible only by snowmobile or air at this time of year - for treatment at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp.'s regional medical center in Bethel, at Alaska's far west end.

Two dozen Kuskokwim River fishermen on trial this week for illegal fishing have been found guilty by a judge in Bethel.

How do you find a home when you find yourself away from the land you've grown up in? For Native Alaskans who have left the village for the big city, for young Alaskans who have moved to the Lower 48 to find careers and for new Alaskans who have left homes Outside, that can be a common theme.

Several of the fishermen were found guilty Monday after their trials by judge resumed.