Hooper Bay News

UNCLEAR: Officials not sure how "wet" the residents want community to be these days.

Work on a high-speed Internet project for 53 villages in Southwest Alaska will begin this spring, thanks to a $25.3 million federal economic stimulus grant awarded to Sea Lion International, a subsidiary of the Hooper Bay village Native corporation.

A partnership between an Alaska contracting company and a firm from the Lower 48 has won the contract to help bring high-speed Internet to areas of southwest Alaska.

An Alaska Native village corporation from Hooper Bay is getting a $25.3 million grant from federal stimulus funds to provide fourth-generation high-speed broadband internet service to 53 villages.

Fresno police arrested a man in possession of nine loaded guns and additional ammunition in a shopping center at Shaw and Valentine avenues Friday night.

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

Neal Foster has been appointed to a state House seat to replace his late father, Rep.

Governor Sean Parnell today appointed Neal Foster to the vacant District 39 seat in the Alaska House of Representatives, which covers an area from Hooper Bay up to and including the City of Nome.

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

If Santa Claus is going to be doing any shopping at the North Pole in 2010, he is going to have to bring his own reusable bags, or bring some extra money to defray the cost of the plastic carryout bags that he will have to buy at retail stores when he shops.

The Sesok, Crowley's newest triple-screw diesel powered tug joined the fleet of Alaska river tugs this month, when it called St.

Four secretaries in the Obama cabinet had their eyes opened to unique Alaska problems in a trip to rural communities, U.S. Sen.

U.S. Sen. Mark Begich says four cabinet secretaries had their eyes opened to unique Alaska problems in a trip to rural communities.

An Anchorage judge on WednesdayA declined to put an immediate stop on the governor's office from conducting public business on private e-mail accounts.

Four US Secretaries made a two-hour visit to the coastal village of Hooper Bay after their short stop in Bethel.A A The trip was an opportunity for local leaders to show the challenges they face in remote Alaska.

On President Barack Obama's promise to pay attention to the problems of rural America, four of his Cabinet secretaries have traveled to parts of Alaska that couldn't get much more rural.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced more federal stimulus funds for tribal and native organizations Tuesday and heard how money was being spent in Anchorage.

Plastic bags are strewn around the tundra in spring 2008 near the landfill outside Bethel.Rose Olson shops with the new reusable bags in Hooper Bay.

Alaska is a hotbed of plastic bag bans -- a trend I didn't realize until I read this story from the Anchorage Daily News.

Recently I had the privilege to visit several villages on the lower Yukon River.