Bethel News

Life in rural, or "bush", Alaska is very different but very exciting! You can only get to the bush via airplanes.

A juvenile is suspected of causing at least $10,000 in damage to two airplanes, a bus and an elementary school in Lower Kalskag.

Darren Kellerby has worked hard this year to smash some stereotypes. The 27-year-old Grand Junction native and Mesa State College graduate has been teaching high school students in a remote Alaskan village for two years and is traveling to Grand Junction this week with four students.

MARIA ZEAL of Ottawa received a Bachelor of Arts in music with a minor in theology from Indiana Bible College in Indianapolis May 9. She graduated with the highest honors and will serve an internship in Bethel, Alaska, this summer.

WALL OF WATER: Officials keep track of flood crests as they move down Yukon, Kuskokwim rivers.

Efforts are under way in Eagle to assess the damage caused when ice jams on the Yukon River caused massive flooding in the community.

Elders and pregnant women have been evacuated from a flooded Kuskokwim River village.

Cleanup and damage assessment continued Friday in Eagle after a devastating flood caused by ice jams from the Yukon River caused extensive damage throughout the community.

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Indigenous delegates at a UN conference on climate change in Alaska could not agree on a final summit document due to disagreements over oil and gas drilling on native lands.

Cold case investigators are taking a new look at the rape and murder of a University of Alaska Fairbanks student in 1993.

Alaska State Troopers and volunteer search teams spent Saturday searching for a teacher and his wife who went missing while snow machining between Kuskokwim Bay villages.

Sandra Kozevnikoff tested her heavy equipment driving skills on a computer simulator during a public meeting held last month in this middle Kuskokwim River village.

In the last eight years, many rural Alaskans moved away and had fewer children, leading to a population drop that's likely to continue, according to a new state report.

Several remote Alaska villages are in limbo as the summer construction season approaches, uncertain whether work can proceed to shore up serious erosion.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, seniors at the suburban Denver school, detonated homemade bombs and opened fire with shotguns, a rifle and a semiautomatic handgun on April 20, 1999.

Transportation was arduous in remote areas of Alaska as shown by this Blackhawk helicopter during Operation Arctic Care.

The Village is a Daily News blog about life and politics in rural Alaska. Its main author is ADN reporter Kyle Hopkins.

Every culture has a story of its history, a tale of how that culture was created, thrived, survived challenges, overcame hardships.

Bethel's big Cama-i Dance Festival will take place March Friday to March 29 at the Bethel High School.