Evan Erickson

Long before music came into the picture, singer-songwriter Jackson Emmer said he started out as a “poetry and literary nerd child.” He said it wasn't

As of the afternoon of Saturday, May 9, Aniak remains under a flood warning after water backed up by an ice jam around 11 miles downriver inundated low-lying areas in the community.

Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Billy Kirkland (left) and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) listen during a roundtable with tribal leaders impacted by Typhoon Halong at the University of Alaska Anchorage on May 5, 2026.

Tribal leaders and agency heads prepare to testify during a hearing on federal disaster response held by the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and chaired by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation hospital in Bethel on May 6, 2026.

Tassels moved from right to left on mortarboards as dozens of graduates from across the region received degrees at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Kuskokwim Campus (KuC) commencement on May 7.

Alaska State Troopers are accusing a Kotlik man of threatening his grandfather with a rifle and then setting the grandfather's front porch on fire last week in the Yukon Delta community.

As the Yukon-Kuskokwim (Y-K) Delta emerges from a long winter that strained fuel stores, the arrival of the first barges of the season might typically be cause for celebration.

Federal fisheries managers have announced the first five openers of the 2026 Kuskokwim River salmon fishing season.

The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC) has announced plans to double the capacity of its YK Elders Home, the only long-term care facility serving Bethel and the wider region.

Dillingham independent Bryce Edgmon, currently the most senior member of the Alaska House of Representatives, has announced his bid to represent Southwest Alaska in the state Senate.