KYUK (Bethel, AK)

Bethel Broadcasting, Incorporated, operating under the names KYUK (AM), KYUK-FM, and KYUK-TV, is a non-profit organization focused on providing local, non-commercial public radio and television services to the Yup'ik Eskimo community and other residents of southwestern Alaska. As an affiliate of National Public Radio and Alaska Public Radio, as well as a member of PBS through the Alaska One Public Television Network, KYUK plays a vital role in the region. The station is based in Bethel, Alaska, a town located along the Kuskokwim River in the Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta area of southwestern Alaska.

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Air traffic overhaul obstacles

1 day ago | kyuk.org | Joel Rose

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes. Copyright 2025 NPR
AIRRAQ network marks internet access milestone with launch event in Bethel

2 days ago | kyuk.org | Evan Erickson

In May, residents of Bethel began to tap into fiber internet speeds on par with Anchorage for the first time ever as part of the launch of the AIRRAQ network, a partnership between communications provider GCI and Bethel Native Corporation. On June 3, leaders on both the tribal and private sides of AIRRAQ made the launch of the fiber-optic network official in an event held in Bethel at the Association of Village Council Presidents, Regional Housing Authority building.
Searchers locate remains of 1 of 2 men missing after Mekoryuk skiff sinking

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Sage Smiley

Searchers have located the remains of one of the two men who went missing after a skiff they were traveling in sank near Mekoryuk, according to Alaska State Troopers. The body of 65-year-old Albert Williams was located on Wednesday, May 28 on the east side of Nunivak Island around 20 miles from Mekoryuk, troopers said. Local individuals, Alaska State Troopers, a United States Coast Guard vessel, and a Bethel-based National Guard helicopter joined in the search.
Fisheries managers set first Yukon salmon closures of 2025

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Evan Erickson

Aside from a possible brief opening to harvest summer chum salmon, 2025 will be the sixth consecutive year of total salmon fishing closures on the Yukon River. Beginning June 1, the first of a series of rolling salmon fishing closures will go into effect on the lower Yukon. The closures will then work their way upriver, following chinook and summer chum salmon on their journey toward the Canadian border.
This program helps 6 million families pay their energy bills. Here’s what’s at risk if it’s cut

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Jessica Kutz

This story was originally reported by Jessica Kutz of The 19th. Meet Jessica and read more of her reporting on gender, politics, and policy. The Trump administration wants to eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), a little-known piece of the social safety net that helps low-income people pay their utility bills. Congress created the program in 1981, initially to help people pay for heating in the winter.
In a county that backed Trump, people depend on Medicaid and are conflicted about cuts

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Noam Levey

GLOBE, Ariz. — Like many residents of this copper-mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, Debbie Cox knows plenty of people on Medicaid. Cox, who is a property manager at a real estate company in Globe, has tenants who rely on the safety-net program. And at the domestic violence shelter where she volunteers as president of the board, Cox said, staff always look to enroll women and their children if possible. But Cox, who is 65, has mixed feelings about Medicaid.
As glaciers melt, salmon and mining companies are vying for the new territory

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Max Graham

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. It was produced by Grist and co-published with Alaska Public Media. The Tulsequah Glacier meanders down a broad valley in northwest British Columbia, 7 miles from the Alaska border. At the foot of the glacier sits a silty, gray lake, a reservoir of glacial runoff. The lake is vast, deeper than Seattle’s Space Needle is tall. But it didn’t exist a few decades ago, before 2 miles of ice had melted.
Restraining order on Alaska bear cull to be in place until state fixes identified legal flaws

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Yereth Rosen

A state judge has extended a restraining order that bars the Alaska Department of Fish and Game from killing bears in a controversial predator-control program. Superior Court Judge Christina Rankin, in an order issued May 19, said the department’s decision to shoot bears earlier this month in violation of a previous court ruling justified her decision to keep the temporary restraining order (TRO) in place beyond the 10 days that is standard in Alaska law.
Over-polluted communities vow to fight despite EPA's rollback on environmental justice

2 weeks ago | kyuk.org | Nate Perez

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Technology supports tradition in Quinhagak ocean buoy project

2 weeks ago | kyuk.org | Evan Erickson

For the Kuskokwim Bay community of Quinhagak, the memory of seven boaters who went missing while on a seal hunt in fall 2020 is still fresh. They were never found. Warren Jones, who heads the local Native corporation and took part in the search effort, said that community members were spurred to take action by the tragedy. "This was a big push for the search and rescue to get started in Quinhagak," Jones said.