The Delta Discovery, Inc.

by Greg Lincoln Thank you to the folks at the Kuskokwim River InterTribal Fish Commission who gave this June 11th salmon catch update on fishing in the Kuskokwim (from the Mouth to Aniak). More fishing […]

Traditional Games

by Greg Lincoln For the past two years – 2020 and 2021, we have missed the live, in-person Native Youth Olympics statewide event that is usually held every spring in Anchorage. This year, the Sealaska […]

Memorial Day Remembrance

by Greg Lincoln Monday, May 31, 2021 is Memorial Day – a day to remember and honor the heroes of our country who died while serving in the U.S. military. On this day, the Veterans […]

For Sale

Houses for Sale Must be moved. Call Shorty at 907-545-3157 for prices. (12)(6/2-cnx) For Sale: Hitzer Amish built woodstoves. UHMW Plastic sled runners. 543-2379. (11)(3/1-cnx) FOR SALE 300 Gallon Plastic Water Tanks in stock. Call […]

ANTHC opens regional office in Bethel

by ANTHC Staff Olinka Peterson was recently hired as ANTHC’s Regional liaison for Bethel and Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC) area. After spending a week at ANTHC’s offices in Anchorage learning about the ANTHC resources available […]

YKHC urges residents to get vaccinated as COVID-19 variant confirmed in YK Delta

by YKHC Staff With two cases of a more virulent and contagious strain of COVID-19 recently confirmed in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC) today (June 4th, 2021) renews its call for […]

Calista Corporation announces 2021 Online Early Bird Proxy Prizes Winners

by Calista Staff Nearly 30 Percent of Voting Shareholders Qualified for $19,500 in Prizes. Nine Calista (cha-LIS-tah) Corporation Shareholders are winners in the first round of Early Bird proxy prizes for the 2021 Annual Meeting […]

Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs continues its commitment to the Alaska Territorial Guard

by Murriah Ebersole The Alaska State Office of Veterans Affairs (OVA) continues its efforts to locate and recognize the members of the Alaska Territorial Guard (ATG). The ATG assembled in 1942 as a response to […]

Fishcamp Summer

Alaskans should be Good Stewards of Our Home

by Corri A. Feige and Doug Vincent-Lang It’s a great time of year, when Alaskans emerge from the long, dark winter and launch eagerly into the great outdoors, ready to experience again the freedom and […]

OneWeb broadband is coming to the Last Frontier, and it’s beaming down from the Final Frontier

by Shawn Williams Nicknames aside, the exciting fact is that true broadband internet connectivity–a difficult struggle to achieve in many rural Alaska communities–is finally close to reality. OneWeb is currently the only LEO middle mile […]

Despite Administrative Law Judge’s concerns about dangerous mercury exposure, Alaska Commissioner rubber-stamps Donlin Gold Mine Water Quality Certification

by the Orutsaramiut Native Council Decision follows administrative law judge ruling that mine will result in violations of water quality standards and certificate should not have been issued. May 27th, 2021: Today Commissioner Jason Brune […]

Thank you Senators Murkowski, Sullivan for Support of Davis Bacon Wages

Alaska lronworkers applaud Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan for their votes in opposition to stripping Davis Bacon wages from the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America (CHIPS) Act. Senators Murkowski and Sullivan […]

Temper tantrum is unprecedented in the history of the Alaska Judicial Council

Alaska is a special place. Whether you were born here or moved here, whether you live in a city or off the road system, whatever your race and ethnicity, we are all Alaskans. We share […]

Support for Calista Board Candidate Elsie Boudreau

I’d like to encourage Calista Shareholders to support Elsie Boudreau for the Calista Board representing Unit 3. I believe that Elsie is the ideal candidate for this region as she has demonstrated leadership with integrity […]

Public Safety Academy to Graduate 21 New Law Enforcement Officers

by DPS Staff ALET Session #21-01 includes nine Alaska State Troopers, as well as recruits from several city, state, and borough police agencies. In a graduation ceremony in Sitka 21 new law enforcement officers received […]

Earthquakes and insects on Alaska road trips

by Ned Rozell A few nights ago, stretched in a tent on the blue-gray gravel of the Lowe River floodplain, I woke to a series of sharp jolts. It felt like the earth was a […]

Interior Alaska Forest Inventory returns to the Upper Kuskokwim

After a successful summer inventorying the local boreal forests around Lake Minchumina and McGrath in 2020, the Interior Alaska Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program is returning to the Upper Kuskokwim region in 2021. Even […]

Bowhead whale skeleton surfaces at the Museum of the North

by Alice Bailey A bowhead whale skeleton is swimming through the lobby of the University of Alaska Museum of the North. It is rare to see a complete, articulated whale skeleton, where the bones are […]

The secret life of an Alaska fish

by Ned Rozell In Alaska’s infinite waters swims a handsome, silvery fish. Until recently, we knew little about the Bering cisco, which exists only around Alaska and Siberia. Then a scientist combined his unique life […]

Two wildfires near villages in Southwest Alaska declared fully contained

by Alaska Division of Forestry Two human-caused wildfires that ignited near villages in rural Southwest Alaska earlier this week are now 100 percent contained and firefighters will spend another day mopping up before demobilizing. The […]

How Do I Go About Getting Married

by Dr. Lorin Bradbury Question: How do I go about getting married? Yes, that is a real question that has been posed to me on several occasions. On each occasion the couple was living together, […]

Don’t Throw the Buoy Until You See the Whites of their Eyes

by Tad Lindley On Saturday the fishing period on the Kuskokwim started at 6:00 AM. We threw the buoy into the river about 10 seconds after that. Only one other boat was in the channel […]

Black-legged Kittiwake Arliaq/Tarliaq, Naruyacuaq

by Frank Keim The Kittiwake is a dainty gull whose name, like that of the Mew gull, is imitative of its call. Wherever you find steep rocky sea cliffs on the coast of southwest Alaska, […]

Grateful for our Blessings

by Peter Twitchell Year by Year our body is aging. I’m 71, thinking I am aging “gracefully”. I can still walk. I can walk full steam ahead for ½ mile and not feel winded and […]

Fisherman rescued from bay

Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers responded to a report of a fisherman in distress who had been swept out into Resurrection Bay from the McDonald’s campground beach in Seward on May 29, 2021, […]

Man perishes while water skipping snowmachine

Alaska State Troopers received a report that a snow machine had fallen through the ice, near Shishmaref on June 2, 2021, at approximately 1550 hours. After an investigation, it was determined that 32-year-old Shishmaref resident […]

Old KVNA building demolished

The aged Kuskokwim Valley Native Association building across from Swanson’s in Bethel has been taken down. This historic building was built prior to 1969 and is the last of three related structures from that area. […]

Tundra Treasure

1 year old Luka Jacob of Napaskiak went on his first egg hunting trip while visiting Chefornak with his parents. He found the nest and pointed them out to his dad.

Grizzly Family: A Conversation with Jerry and Caleb Jacques

by Bjorn Dihle When Jerry Jacques was 17, he ran away from California and hitchhiked to Alaska. He had heard stories of his great-grandfather and grandfather prospecting, trapping and living in the far north and […]

Seal Oil Maker

Mother’s helper: Maya Bosco of Chefornak is doing a good job while cutting up seal blubber into strips that will soon become seal oil.

Illegal drugs found hidden internally

Alaska State Troopers in Ketchikan, along with the Ketchikan Police Department, Ketchikan Airport Police, and Juneau DEA conducted a joint operation to disrupt the flow of illicit narcotics into Southeast, Alaska on February 5, 2021. […]

Department continues to investigate, pursue all fraudulent activities

Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Dr. Tamika L. Ledbetter announced today (May 12th, 2021) that Alaska’s Unemployment Insurance program continues to investigate and address any reported refusals of suitable work or other […]

Multi-Agency Taskforce arrests 41 fugitives

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A two day operation in the Mat-Su Valley arrested 41 fugitives who absconded from probation, parole, pretrial supervision, or had arrest warrants in the Mat-Su Valley in early March. The operation was led by the […]

Illegal drugs found hidden internally

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Lady Warriors is #4 team at spring State Wrestling Meet

by Delta Discovery Staff The Bethel Regional High School girls wrestlers placed fourth overall at the 2021 Division II State Wrestling Tournament this past weekend, hosted by the Alaska Schools Activities Association and Chugiak High […]

BRHS Warriors runners up at State Wrestling Tournament

by Delta Discovery Staff Landon Smith of Bethel, a junior, won gold in the 112 lb. division at the 2021 Division II State Wrestling Tournament, making it his third straight state title and helping his […]

2020-2021 ASAA Wrestling State Championship

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High school boys and girls wrestlers in Division II from across the state competed for a chance to go for gold at the State Wrestling finals held at Chugiak High School on Friday, May 21, […]

LKSD March Madness Day 2 Semifinals

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LKSD March Madness Day 1

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Bethel Warriors vs Kotzebue Huskies Basketball Action

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Friday, February 28 ball game at BRHS. Final Score Bethel 67, Kotzebue 40.

Michael Wassilie, Sr.

Alaska Native Michael Wassilie, 80, passed away Thursday, June 3, 2021 at his home in Kenai. Funeral services will be held at St. Agaphia Orthodox Church in Tuntutuliak. Pallbearers will be Michael Wassilie , Jr., […]

Deborah Lee Townsend

Born in the steel mill town of Weirton, West Virginia, Deborah Lee Sadler was raised by her grandparents Harold and Martha Leuthke. Despite the black soot commonly raining down from the stacks of nearby blast […]

Jack Lee “Caavialuq” Hopstad

Jack Lee “Caavialuq” Hopstad was born in Platinum, Alaska on August 24, 1951 to Olaf and Mildred Hopstad, and entered into eternal life May 7, 2021. Jack’s parents met in Bethel and married in 1951, […]

State of Alaska District Court in BethelJune 4 – 8

Judgments Jamin E. Carl, 27 Send/Bring Alcohol to Dry Area $1500, 3 Days Anthony Noatak, 37 4th Degree Assault 10 Days, 1 Yr. Prob. Abraham I. Henry, 27 Driving Under the Influence $1500, 3 Days, […]

State of Alaska District Court in BethelJune 2 – 4

Judgments Timothy S. Studie, 54 4th Degree Misconduct Involving Weapons 2 Yrs. Prob. Noel Robin Peter, 28 Driving Under the Influence, Violate Conditions of Release, Driving While License Cancelled/Revoked/Suspended $3000, 21 Days, 2 Yrs. Prob. […]

State of Alaska District Court in BethelMay 24 – 26

Judgments Roy Nick, 33 4th Degree Assault 365 Days Frank Chanar, 50 4th Degree Assault 60 Days, 1 Yr. Prob. Anthony Noatak, 37 4th Degree Assault 10 Days, 1 Yr. Prob. Rebecca Kinegak, 41 Driving […]

Bethel Fire Department Calls for week ending June 3

• On 6-5-21 at 8:28 A.M., Medics responded to the report of a person down. Patient assessed and transported to the hospital. • On 6-5-21 at 11:21 A.M., Firefighters responded to the report of a […]

Bethel Fire Department Calls for week ending June 3

• On 5-29-21 at 3:11 A.M., medics responded to the report of a person having an anxiety attack. Patient was assessed and transported to the hospital. • On 5-29-21 at 7:11 P.M., Firefighters responded to […]

Bethel Fire Department Calls for week ending May 22

• On 5-22-21 at 5:05 A.M., Medics responded to the report of a person that has been assaulted. Patient was assessed and transported to the hospital. • On 5-22-21 at 4:52 P.M., Medics responded to […]

Murkowski and colleagues stand up for Wild-Caught Salmon