BETHEL, Alaska – With the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program’s new Acceleration Academy (Bethel), students across Lower Kuskokwim region have a chance to go from eighth grade to a bachelor’s degree in five to six years and save up to $75,000 in college costs. Currently offered in Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, ANSEP’s full-time […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the prisoner who shot a Nunapitchuk Village Police Officer on Tuesday afternoon is in custody and has been charged with a multitude of counts that include Attempted Murder I, Assault I, Assault II, Assault III, Escape I, Misconduct Involving a Weapon III, Misconduct Involving a Weapon IV, and Misconduct Involving […]
Searchers downstream from Tuluksak continue to search for one snowmachiner on the Kuskokwim River after an incident there on Friday evening. Troopers were notified of the incident by Bethel Search and Rescue on Saturday morning of the search for two snowmachiners that were observed driving into a hole in the ice on the river at […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing evacuated a pregnant woman experiencing medical complications Dec. 15, transporting her from the village of Newtok to Bethel. Newtok is located on the west coast of Alaska, approximately 115 miles west of the town of Bethel. Alaska Air National Guard Capt. Brent Kramer, […]