Bethel News

Published: December 24th, 2009 12:23 PM Last Modified: December 24th, 2009 12:24 PM Link: KYUK via National Public Radio The Kuskokwim River in winter is supposed to be an ice highway to Bethel from nearby villages.

Village police officers in communities near Bethel have noticed an increase in assaults, drunken driving and public inebriation since southwest Alaska's largest city decided to go wet.

Alcohol orders are prepared for delivery in Bethel in August, before voters OK'd "wet" status for the city.

Civil libertarians and patrons of the dance will be happy to know, courtesy of an Anchorage Daily News link to The Arctic Sounder , that native dancing is no longer outlawed in the Inupiaq Village of Noorvik, on the far Northwest Coast of North America.

BETHEL, Alaska - Police arrested a 51-year-old man accused of attacking a relative with a rifle after driving home drunk on a snowmachine.

One man is under arrest with more charges on the way, after a thief or thieves snatched a Bethel police vehicle and took it for a joy ride along the frozen Kuskokwim River on Tuesday night.

Talk about a wild drive: barreling a stolen police car along a frozen river in western Alaska, while firing rounds from an officer's semi-automatic rifle.

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A new $9 million shelter for battered women and their children is opening in the town of Bethel to address the growing problem of domestic abuse in the largely Native region, facility operators said Tuesday.

Sonny Johnns has Tourette's syndrome. He undergoes almost constant spasms and blurts out inappropriate things to strangers in inconvenient circumstances.

BETHEL, Alaska a " An air taxi with eight people aboard made an emergency landing on tundra when the engine failed near Alaska's Bering Sea coast.Passengers told The Anchorage Daily News the Yute Air pilot remained calm on the flight from Bethel to Kipnuk, and the landing Wednesday was so smooth it could have been on a runway.

It's been called the best-kept secret in health care. For over 200 years, the U.S. government has successfully provided free health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives - first, as part of the War Department and later as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The City of Bethel, Alaska is soliciting a qualified consulting firm to submit a proposal to update the Citya s Comprehensive Plan.

Published: October 13th, 2009 09:06 PM Last Modified: October 13th, 2009 09:06 PM The final tally is in, and Bethel voters have approved a proposition to loosen liquor laws after three decades of prohibition.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has landed a $1.7 million federal grant to help design Yupik-language lessons for schools in southwest Alaska.

Early, unofficial election results have been posted on the Bethel city Web site.

As many as one-third of homes in one Western Alaska village are rotting, moldy and potentially unsafe to live in, a new report says.

A Southwest Alaska village police officer known for his Yup'ik dancing and singing is presumed drowned in the Kuskokwim River after his boat sank, according to Alaska State Troopers.

A father of four lies in a hospital bed, partially paralyzed from the shoulders down.

Tunnel Man's rap: Climate change for village kids Published: September 10th, 2009 02:39 PM Last Modified: September 10th, 2009 02:43 PM Link: Alaska Dispatch UAF permafrost researcher Kenji Yoshikawa likes to get off the campus and into the field.