Bethel is 56 miles from the mouth of the Kuskokwim River and the adjoining salt water of the Kuskokwim Bay and the Bering Sea. The Western Alaska hub city is 1,136 miles from the small but crucial ...

SEATTLE — The special delivery arrived in a plastic storage box after a chartered flight in a bouncy single-propeller plane. Veterinarian Susan Shaffer Sookram snipped the zip ties securing the lid ...

A nonprofit organization in Alaska has rescued at least 180 dogs — and a turtle — after flooding devastated several remote villages in Alaska earlier this month. Hundreds of people were airlifted out ...

Amid the highest water levels measured since 2005, the City of Bethel urged residents on Thursday night to be prepared for things to get worse. The primary affected areas are the Alligator Acres and ...

The Alaska Air National Guard C-17 evacuated over 300 civilians from the remote western coast of Alaska to emergency shelters in Anchorage, the latest in the military response to massive flooding ...

Kirkham joined the city in March as deputy director of public safety. He'll now oversee both the police and fire departments.

Voting booths in Bethel ought to come with revolving doors this year. After three months of confusion and second-guessing over residents' decision to lift a decades-old ban on liquor sales, the city ...

A Dallas, Texas, man died after his raft plunged over a waterfall on a remote rafting trip near Bethel, Alaska, state troopers say. Photo from Getty/iStock A Texas man on a remote river rafting trip ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The special delivery arrived in a plastic storage box after a chartered flight in bouncy single-propeller plane. Veterinarian Susan Shaffer Sookram snipped the zip ties securing the lid ...