Shishmaref News

The people of Newtok, on the west coast of Alaska and about 400 miles south of the Bering Strait that separates the state from Russia, are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away.

BOB HALLINEN / Anchorage Daily News Karen Tocktoo fills up the back of her car with Wonder Bread which she will ship to her father Vincent Tocktoo in Shishmaref.

Alaska environmental regulators say they still don't know the source of the oil that recently contaminated two seals and five birds near Gambell on St.

In regard to the musk ox hunt Bob Bell went on a couple of years ago. I was on that hunt and would like to put the record straight.

They thrived through it all. Laughter and weeping, jubilant growth and frustrating decline, courageous stances and gnawing anxiety.