Koyukuk News

Edited by G. W. Kimura The blurb: More than twenty contributors provide their voice in a selection of essays about Alaska art, culture and humanities in the past, present and future.

Jesse and I sunk into the couch in Ted and Jackie Suckling's living room. It was gray outside.

Galena police are searching for a suspected car thief in the western Alaska village of about 600 people.

Days short of becoming Homer Senior Citizens' new administrator, Traci Boschert, 43, of Anchorage was found dead on the porch of her newly rented Hillside Place residence in Homer.

Alaskans have talked about a road to Nome for decades and now state transportation planners are taking a new look, with updated information.

Fairbanks state Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican, doesn't think much of the state's $2 million plan to begin public preschools in high-need areas.

The Alaska Department of Education says it will ramp up its efforts to help failing schools, particularly in rural parts of the state.

The Alaska Department of Education says it will ramp up its efforts to help failing schools, particularly in rural parts of the state.

Public Safety Report - July 24

State government will spend $2 million to bolster preschool programs in communities big and small, including Minto, Huslia and Kaltag.

JUNEAU, Alaska-Workers whose source of income has been affected by the Yukon Kuskokwim Flood may qualify for Disaster Unemployment Assistance benefits if they are self-employed or are not eligible for the state's unemployment insurance program.

An Interior airline operator said people are leaving Alaska villages, and that outward migration to urban areas is adding new business challenges in an already tough economy that is bringing more competition from larger companies.

President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration for several parts of Alaska affected by spring flooding and ice jams, ordering federal aid to help in recovery efforts.

Ice jams are threatening more Yukon River villages. The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch alert through Saturday evening from Koyukuk to Grayling to Holy Cross.

Brutal ice flows and raging flood water are wreaking havoc in small, isolated villages scattered along the Yukon River.

The large framed photo of Harold "Buddy" Brown displayed prominently at his funeral service Saturday in Huslia reflected his success in two worlds.