Mertarvik is a newly constructed village on Nelson Island that the village of Newtok is relocating to. July 16, 2020 in Mertarvik, Alaska. (Katie Basile/KYUK) The federal government announced a $12 ...

It’s so cold that the ground is frozen in Toksook Bay. And for the census workers who’ve descended on this remote Alaskan fishing village, that’s a good thing. It means they’ll have a chance to reach ...

Facing the defending 1A boys champion, underdog Toksook Bay looked like a team that had something to prove. The No. 6 seed Islanders built a 69-49 lead after three quarters Friday at the 1A State Boys ...

Abraham Julius left Anchorage’s Alaska Airlines Center on Saturday barely able to muster a whisper. But the Toksook Bay senior also walked out of the building a state champion. For the second straight ...

Nov. 27—This Thanksgiving, instead of turkeys, households in Toksook Bay are each getting 100-pound portions of various meats, delivered this month through a military assistance program that is ...

Oct. 1, 2020 marks a strict deadline. After that date, Alaskans will need federally acceptable identification to board commercial airlines, access military bases and enter federal facilities. These ...

TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska — There are no restaurants in Toksook Bay, Alaska. No motels or movie theater, either. There also aren't any factories. Or roads. But the first Americans to be counted in the 2020 ...

“It’s not the end of the world,” David Lefner told us, “but you can see it from here.” That was our greeting as we stepped off our flight in Bethel, Alaska. It was our last stop before boarding the ...

Near the iced-over Bering Sea, parka-clad workers for the U.S. Census Bureau are gathering in a remote fishing village along the southwestern rim of Alaska to resume a U.S. tradition seen only once a ...

Cross the treeless, frozen tundra of southwest Alaska, over ice-covered lakes and ponds near the Bering Sea, and you'll find the first community in the U.S. counted for the 2020 census. While most of ...