The Delta Discovery, Inc.

by Greg Lincoln The Kuskokwim Learning Academy graduated six seniors this past Friday at the KLA 2022 commencement ceremony. Receiving their new high school diplomas are: Adu Wassillie, Calvin Samson, Chelsea Gilman, and Shawnti Finch […]

Kuskokwim Campus 2022 Commencement

by Greg Lincoln The Kuskokwim Campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Rural and Community Development celebrated their Forty-Eighth Commencement on April 29th, 2022. The graduates clad in their graduation gowns, mortar boards, […]

NYO family spans four generations

by Greg Lincoln The Phillip family of Kongiganak is strong in Native Youth Olympics here in the coastal region of southwest Alaska. Their founding father is Tommy Phillip who has coached NYO for many years, […]

UW School of Pharmacy student accepted into exclusive Biomedical Sciences Summer Program

A University of Wyoming biomedical sciences Ph.D. candidate has been accepted into the Marine Biological Laboratory summer program in neuroscience, excellence and success (SPINES), located in Woods Hole, Mass. Whitney Walker, of Bethel, Alaska, is […]

Federal Subsistence fishing opportunities announced for June 2022

by the Yukon Delta NWR and the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission On May 2, 2022, the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge Manager announced by emergency special action 3-KS-01-22 that the Federal government will assume […]

2022 UAF KuC Commencement

by Lucy Peloso and Katie Rearden The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) College of Rural and Community Development (CRCD) Kuskokwim Campus (KuC) held its forty-eighth commencement ceremony on Friday, April 29, 2022, at the Yupiit […]

Awaiting river breakup on the Yukon

by Ned Rozell Andy Bassich lives on the south bank of the Yukon River, about 12 miles downstream from Eagle, Alaska, the first community in America along the largest waterway in Alaska. Like all of […]

Village Telegraph

Donlin Gold reports that the State of Alaska has reaffirmed the 401 Clean Water Certificate

Donlin Gold would like to report that the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) has reaffirmed Donlin Gold’s Clean Water Act 401 Certificate of Reasonable Assurance (401 Certificate). The 401 Certification indicates the State’s reasonable […]

2022 Calista Corporation Shareholder Award recipients announced

Shareholders Inspire Culture and Strength. Calista (cha-LIS-tah) Corporation is pleased to announce the 2022 recipients of the annual Calista Shareholder Awards. Drawn from nominations submitted by fellow Shareholders, these awards recognize exceptional efforts by Shareholders […]

The Effectiveness of Read by 9 Reforms

by Debra Van Dyke Reading scores for Alaska’s public-school students are unsatisfactory. In fact, Alaskan fourth-grade reading scores across all incomes rank our students dead last in the nation. Considering the importance of being able […]

Tribal Citizens ask Barrick Gold to withdraw from proposed Donlin Gold Mine in Southwest Alaska

from the Salmon State May 3, 2022 (Bethel, Alaska) – Alaska Native community leaders are attending the Barrick Gold (NYSE: GOLD) Annual General Meeting today to raise indigenous rights concerns and call on Barrick to […]

Governor Dunleavy demands federal recognition of State-Owned Lands

Today (April 26th, 2022), Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy announced a lawsuit that asks the courts to recognize the State’s ownership to submerged lands within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, an ownership granted at Statehood […]

What to do if you find “orphaned” animals

With summer upon us more people will be heading outdoors to recreate. Undoubtedly, some people will come across young animals. Alaska law prohibits the taking or holding of live animals (including birds) without a permit […]

Supporting and protecting Alaskans during breakup and fire season

Spring and summer across Alaska bring the much-anticipated recreation and subsistence activities which are vital to our way of life, but the longer days and warmer temperatures also bring the risk of flooding and wildland […]

To the People of the Yukon Kuskokwim region

Hello! My name is Daniel Teeluk from Kotlik. I am writing this letter from the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center. This is no place to be when you have so much to lose. May the spirit […]

Missing child found deceased

The Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers were notified that two adults recreating in the Pillar Mountain area had located a deceased juvenile on May 15, 2022, at approximately 12:30 pm. Alaska State Troopers […]

Kuskokwim Ice Classic clock stops on May 5th

The Kuskokwim Ice Classic clock stopped on May 5, 2022 at 6:05 pm. The 2022 Kusko Ice Classic winner is Brenda Carmichael of Napaskiak. She had an exact guess of May 5, 2022 at 6:05 […]

Yukon River closed to harvest of salmon except by Federally qualified subsistence users

The Federal Subsistence Board (Board) met in public by teleconference on May 4, 2022 and adopted Temporary Special Action FSA22-01 for conservation purposes. Specifically, the Board closed Federal public waters of the Yukon Northern Area […]

Life of a sockeye

October 14, 2021 Comments Off

by Bjorn Dihle On July 22nd, news broke that Bristol Bay was having its biggest sockeye salmon return since recordkeeping began in 1893. More than 63 million sockeye had returned to the bay’s different watersheds […]

The Salmon State — An early fall trip to Hasselborg Lake

October 14, 2021 Comments Off

by Mary Catharine Martin Four years ago this August, my partner Bjorn and I flew into Admiralty Island’s Hasselborg Lake. We fought through thick blueberry bushes and swarms of flies, angled our way up a […]

Beavers not always to blame for fever

September 2, 2021 Comments Off

by Ned Rozell Years ago, I worked for a hunting guide on a river in the middle of Alaska. One of my duties was to drive a motorized canoe full of moose meat upstream to […]

Remodeling Your Living Room Part I

by Tad Lindley If you have an average American living room in your house, it’s time to remodel. I’m talking about a living room that has a couch and some chairs and perhaps other furniture. […]

McKay’s Bunting Kanguruaq/Kanguyagaq

by Frank Keim When I first began teaching in Hooper Bay in 1979, my winters were made more enjoyable by cross-country skiing daily out to the edge of the Bering Sea coast, which was only […]

Teaching Children to be Respectful

by Dr. Lorin Bradbury Question: Can you give me tips on how to teach children to be respectful? Frequently, children take their cues from their parents. If they are around respectful parents they learn respect; […]

We can’t give away what we don’t have

by Peter Twitchell I heard someone make the statement that “alcohol does not let people get violent.” I myself would never make such a statement. I couldn’t because I believe alcohol fuels our negative emotions […]

Youth rescued on trail

Alaska State Troopers (AST) received a report that Tadd Okoomealingok, age 16 of Savoonga, left a note indicating he planned to travel from Savoonga to Gambell on an ATV at approximately 1015 hours. The weather […]

Administration Announces Additional H-2B Visas

April 7, 2022 Comments Off

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) released the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) announced 35,000 additional H-2B nonagricultural worker visas for the second […]

“Alaska’s untold secret” — the dividends paid by Southeast Alaska’s “Seabank”

March 24, 2022 Comments Off

by Mary Catharine Martin Wild salmon. Clean water. Clean air. Carbon storage. Climate change mitigation. Tourism, commercial fisheries — and billions of dollars in economic benefit. Since 2018, the Alaska Sustainability Fisheries Trust (ASFT) has […]

Fresh from the Tundra

Alaska Senate passes the Alaska Reads Act

The Alaska Senate today (April 12th, 2022) unanimously passed Senate Bill 111, an important effort to improve reading skills through increased accountability, well placed resources, and by recognizing that students must be ready to learn […]

Where Did the Chum Go?

by Doug Molyneaux “The summers of 2020 and 2021 saw the lowest numbers on record for chum salmon returning to the Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers. There are many possible reasons for these low returns. I […]

Bethel taxi cabs hit by juveniles

Taxi cabs are an essential form of transportation in the hub community of Bethel. On Sunday, 3/28/2022 at approximately 8:00pm Bethel Police Communications received a report of damage to three separate taxi windows from thrown […]

Man arrested at Anchorage Airport for attempting to transport narcotics

April 7, 2022 Comments Off

Investigators assigned to the Anchorage Airport Interdiction Team contacted a suspicious passenger attempting to travel to rural Alaska on March 31, 2022 at approximately 9:00 am. During their investigation, Troopers discovered approximately 56 grams of […]

Overdoses caused by lethal batch in Mat-Su Valley

April 1, 2022 Comments Off

The Alaska State Troopers, Palmer Police Department, and Wasilla Police Department have responded to several suspected overdoses this week (March 18th, 2022) in the Mat-Su area. Law enforcement believe that a lethal batch of heroin […]

Man arrested in Kotlik

February 24, 2022 Comments Off

It was reported to AST that Calson Aparezuk, age 34 of Kotlik, entered the Kotlik school by an unknown method and was armed with a rifle on February 17, 2022, at 0007 hours. Two adult […]

Bethel Wrestling Club competes in Folkstyle, Greco, and Freestyle State meets

The Bethel Wrestling Club traveled to the Alaska USA State Wrestling Tournament in Wasilla to compete in the Folkstyle, Greco, and Freestyle wrestling meets for boys and girls on May 5-8, 2022. In the Folkstyle […]

Chefornak Shamans win LKSD NYO District Meet

by Delta Discovery Staff The Chefornak Shamans are the winners of the 2022 Lower Kuskokwim School District Native Youth Olympics tournament, held in Toksook Bay home of the Islanders on April 7-9th, 2022. Teams participating […]

Bethel NYO athletes compete in Juneau

The Bethel Regional High School Warrior Native Youth Olympics team traveled to the capital city of Juneau to participate in the 2022 Traditional Games, April 2-3 with Coach Tommy Bayayok and chaperones. The Warriors brought […]

1A Alaska Coastal Conference Day 2 photo highlights

March 5, 2022 Comments Off

1A Alaska Coastal Conference Day 1 photo highlights

March 4, 2022 Comments Off

The basketball games for Day 1 of the 1A Alaska Coastal Conference are in the books. The Lower Kuskokwim School District is hosting the tournament at Bethel Regional High School, March 3-5, 2022.

Slamtastic Volleyball Tournament photos

October 22, 2021 Comments Off

Bethel Regional High School. Friday, October 22, 2021.

Don Young