by Greg Lincoln Kipnuk School, home of the Falcons, was host to the 2024 Lower Kuskokwim School District Native Youth Olympics (NYO) championships this past weekend. The tournament featured 11 NYO events: Kneel Jump, Wrist […]
by the Mother Kuskokwim Coalition A new report released today (April 11th, 2024) by a team of scientists and engineers found that a failure or breach of the dam designed to hold toxic mine waste at […]
Widow of Rep. Don Young States Dahlstrom is the Candidate to Continue Young’s Legacy. Today (April 12th, 2024), Anne Garland Young, the widow of Congressman Don Young, announced her endorsement of Lt. Governor Nancy Dahlstrom […]
by AVCP Staff The Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP) leadership brought powerful testimony to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) meeting today (April 6th, 2024) to bring attention to the dire salmon crisis […]
by Senator Lyman Hoffman Good afternoon, Today is day eighty-eight of the 120 day session. This week the Senate Finance committee heard the following bills: SB 60: Repeal Worker’s Comp Appeals Commission; SB 182: Extend […]
by Senator Lyman Hoffman Happy first Friday of April! Its day eighty-one at the capitol. The Senate Finance committee met on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week to hear bills working their way through the […]
by AVCP Staff The Federal District Court for the District of Alaska has ruled in favor of the United States, the Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP), and our allies, rejecting the State of Alaska’s […]
The 2023-2024 Yup’ik and Iñupiat statewide spelling bees were held on Saturday, April 13th at the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program’s Acceleration Academy building on the UAA campus in Anchorage. This year the spelling […]
4 year old KeoniAnn Nicholas of Kasigluk enjoys her first experience of Eskimo Dancing at Nunapitchuk earlier this month. She loves her headdress, dance fans, and qaspeq. Photo by Tanuk Nichoals
The Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP) leadership will be testifying at the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) meeting to bring attention to the dire salmon crisis which is impacting thousands of Native Alaskans. […]
The Association of Village Council Presidents’ (AVCP’s) Executive Board and AVCP’s leadership are pleased with Governor Mike Dunleavy’s appointment of Curtis Chamberlain and reappointment of Marit Carlson-Van Dort to the Alaska Board of Fisheries. The […]
3 year old Kallie Lewis of Kongiganak is happy for her ceturrnat tom cods that were caught at the Ilkivik River on August 22, 2023. photo by Marcy Daniel
Sport Fishing Kuskokwim River tributaries Salmon •Sport fishing for king and chum salmon is closed throughout the entire Kuskokwim-Goodnews Management area due to a below-average king and chum runs in the Kuskokwim River drainage. Sport […]
by Kailey Napoka This is the interview with Daniel Andrew of Tuluksak about his trip to Juneau. What did you learn in Juneau Things like working, listening, and talking. How to be in meetings. Who […]
by Ned Rozell Denali, North America’s highest peak at 20,310 feet above sea level, always seemed abnormally high to Peter Haeussler. He is a geologist who has studied the mountain for years and has also […]
February 23, 2024Comments Off on Elizabeth Peratrovich Day recognized nationally for second year
This week (Feb. 26th, 2024), the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution, introduced by Senator Dan Sullivan and cosponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska), to nationally recognize February 16, 2024 as “Elizabeth Peratrovich Day,” […]
February 14, 2024Comments Off on Attorney General Treg Taylor joins 26 States in support of Texas Border Defense
On Monday (Jan 29th, 2024), Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor joined 26 other states in an Iowa and Utah-led letter to the Biden Administration, supporting Texas’s border defense. “The lack of resolve by the federal […]
Fourteen 2024 inductees add to Alaska High School Hall of Fame excellence. The depth and excellence of Alaska’s high school activities will once again be on display when the 2024 Alaska High School Hall of […]
The Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches Senior All Star event is in the books for 2024, taking place at Grace Christian School this past Saturday. The girls 1A/2A game featured Isabella Peterson of St. Mary’s […]
The respectful hush of the gym, the atmosphere of focus and concentration, the gracious sportsmanship and comradery are the characteristics that embodies Native Youth Olympics, and this can be found wherever an NYO event is […]
The Bethel Warrior Cheerleaders are the region champions for the 3A Western Conference Cheer Competition which took place in Utqiagvik, AK March 8-9 and they also are the runners-up at the 2024 State Cheer competition. […]
Gloria Mark from Eek, Alaska enjoys reading the Delta Discovery newspaper while moose hunting up river on the North Side this September. Photo by Richard Mark, also of Eek.
by Tad Lindley The Bible is a collection of writings that spanned 3,200 years. It claims to be the words of God given to a series of at least 36 men (including the heathen king, […]
by Peter Twitchell This article will be taken out of the Strength Behind Screening from the Bentah Nuutah Native Clinic in Wasilla, Alaska. This is taken out of the monthly medical information, Be the Strength […]
by Tad Lindley In these last days, people seeking to discredit God have derided Christianity as being oppressive to women. They have cast the church into the role of tyrant, controlling people’s lives. By undermining […]
by Dave Kutcher It is that time of year again … and the IRS warns you of a common problem during annual tax season, “Ghost Preparers” popping up to encourage taxpayers to take advantage of […]
by Peter Twitchell Every time I turn on the television set, I see world news, local, state, international chaos on this earth, complete disorder, and confusion about what is right and wrong. People from all […]
by Tad Lindley Please take a look at last week’s issue for Part I. Why is it that people who weren’t there often know exactly what you should have done to be more successful?These self-proclaimed […]
by Seth LaCount Approximately 26 students from the Kusilvak Career Academy toured Alaska Air National Guard facilities on Thursday, April 5, 2024. The tour was an effort between the AKANG and the academy to present […]
This salad recipe is from The Alaskan Grub-Box by Sis Laraux who collected and compiled delicious recipes from her friends and relatives. This cold chicken salad recipe is from Patty Parlow Welch. Make and enjoy. […]
A person in the United States has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus (“H5N1 bird flu”), as reported by Texas and confirmed by CDC, April 1st, 2024. This person had exposure to […]
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, today (March 20th, 2024) welcomed the announcement of more than $30.4 million for 42 climate resilience projects in tribal communities in […]
Today, March 15, 2024, at Doyon, Limited’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders, four individuals were elected to Doyon’s 13-member Board of Directors. Elected with three-year terms ending in 2025 were Walter “Wally” Carlo, Dr. Charleen C. […]
September 21, 2022Comments Off on BRHS hosts Invitational Volleyball weekend
The Bethel Regional High School volleyball teams hosted a weekend of slamtastic with teams from Chevak and Juneau-Douglas participating. The games started on Friday and continued on through Saturday. The Juneau-Douglas Bears varsity team came […]
Elias Leo Kelly was born on November 8, 1963, to Norman and Mary Kelly in Bethel, Alaska. His Yup’ik name is Allgiq, Caal Holt. Nicknames were “Chief” and “Jaborski.” Leo grew up in Pilot Station, […]
Roy Andrew Peratrovich Jr. – Yeil-Naawu – son of renowned civil rights activists Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich Sr., passed away on Nov. 26, 2023, in Gig Harbor, Wash. A member of the Tlingit Nation, Roy […]
Mom, Mary Helen Paniyak, Paniyagaq. Born March 21, 1945 in Qissunaq. She used to tell the story of when she was born. She’d say she was born during the flu. The elders told her mom […]
Alaska Wildlife Troopers Bethel received a report of an unsalvaged moose in GMU 18, near Saint Mary’s. Further investigation revealed Monte Downing, age 71 of California, shot a 64” bull moose on September 17, 2023, […]
February 14, 2024Comments Off on Man convicted for possession of child pornography
Joseph Kashatok, 67, of Kipnuk, Alaska, was convicted on Feb. 2, 2024, after a jury trial of two counts of Possession of Child Pornography. The trial lasted a little under two weeks, and the jury […]
February 14, 2024Comments Off on Bethel woman pleads guilty to murder
Today (Jan. 16th, 2024), 36-year-old Stephanie Olrun entered a guilty plea to the charge of Murder in the Second Degree for the March 12, 2021, murder of her 2-year-old adopted daughter, Jane Olrun. Bethel Superior […]
April 12 • On 3-23-24 at 7:06 a.m. medics responded to the report of a person with a gunshot wound to the head. Patient assessed and transported to the hospital where he succumbed to his […]
by Kenneth Hargens 7 December 2021 This incident happened in 2018, I believe. Certainly not any later year. I am sure the month was September as the tourists had left and there was very little […]
July 26, 2018Comments Off on Berry pickers spy Bigfoot
by K.J. Lincoln On Saturday, August 3rd, 2013, a family from Bethel witnessed a very tall, black colored creature walking upright while they were out picking berries. The family of three – the dad and […]
July 26, 2018Comments Off on Hairy Man tracks along the Kisaralik River
by Delta Discovery staff The Kisaralik and Kasigluk rivers snake through the tundra together from the Kuskokwim River and make their way to the Kuskokwim and Kilbuck mountains. Hairy Man people, or Bigfoots, and/or their […]
July 25, 2018Comments Off on Hairy Man sighted in Napakiak
by Delta Discovery staff In late April 2013, a worker at the Napakiak village corporation was just taking a look outside the 2nd story window of the building during the early afternoon hours, when she […]
July 25, 2018Comments Off on Question about Hairy Man or Bigfoot in our land
by Delta Discovery staff By now, you may have read over a dozen stories of sightings of Hairy Man in the Y-K Delta. We still have many more stories that we have collected and will […]
July 25, 2018Comments Off on Whitefish set netters spot Bigfoot
by K.J. Lincoln Two fishermen from Bethel saw a creature too tall to be a human walking upright while checking their whitefish net at the upper mouth of Tarperrnaq River. Dana Kopanuk, was one of […]
