Bethel News

A man suspected of killing a Bethel cab driver is in jail, but on charges unrelated to the cabbie's death, according to Alaska State Troopers.

A man called a suspect in the death of a Bethel cab driver has been jailed on unrelated charges.

The Alaska Bureau of Investigations is now leading the investigation into the death of a Bethel cab driver.

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Two men have been sentenced to life in prison in the beating death of a Hooper Bay man in Bethel.

A missing Bethel cabbie was found dead under suspicious circumstances Wednesday inside her vehicle at a village 15 miles from the Southwest Alaska city, according to Alaska State Troopers.

A Nunapitchuk snowmachiner was missing in blizzard conditions Thursday after becoming separated from another snowmachiner near Nightmute early Wednesday morning, according to Alaska State Troopers.

A Tununak man headed to the village on a snowmachine Saturday was found dead Sunday by searchers, according to Alaska State Troopers.

A divided Bethel School Board approved a preliminary budget plan Tuesday night that does not include closing schools or changing to an all-day, every-other-day kindergarten schedule.

Five schools in Bethel, including the high school and the Lower Kuskokwim School District office building, are closed because of frozen sewer pipes.