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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The best new albums out June 20

2 days ago | kyuk.org | Stephen Thompson |Raina Douris

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Pilgrims embark for Kwethluk for historic glorification of St. Olga

4 days ago | kyuk.org | Samantha Watson |Evan Erickson

The Bethel airport buzzed with activity on June 18 as Orthodox pilgrims from around the world prepared for the last leg of their journey to the nearby community of Kwethluk to witness the canonization of the first-ever Yup’ik saint, St. Olga. Matushka Olga Michael, a local midwife and healer who died in 1979, will also officially become the first female Orthodox saint in North America.
Firefighters scramble after heat, dry lightning spark multiple fires

4 days ago | kyuk.org | Tim Ellis

This year’s fire season started slowly due to cool and rainy weather, but it roared to life last week with near-record heat and Red Flag warnings in effect around the Interior and elsewhere in the state. “As of [June 16], we've had 13 new fires in the last 24 hours statewide, and 118 fires have burned 3,100 acres,” said Beth Ipsen, an Alaska Fire Service spokesperson. On June 16, Ipsen said that thunderstorms forecast for much of the Interior this week likely won’t bring much rain.
'No kings but salmon.' Anti-Trump protesters rally across Alaska communities

5 days ago | kyuk.org | Samantha Watson |Brian Venua |Clarise Larson |Katherine Rose

On June 14, communities across Alaska took part in a national day of protest against the Trump administration. National organizers estimated that over five million protesters showed up to "No Kings" rallies, planned to coincide with a parade in Washington, D.C. celebrating 250 years of the United States Army and President Donald Trump’s birthday.
Passengers of Scammon Bay charter that lost windshield mid-flight sue the airline

6 days ago | kyuk.org | Evan Erickson

Nine passengers who were aboard an airplane that experienced a windshield blowout mid-flight in March are now suing the air carrier for emotional suffering. According to a civil complaint filed in Bethel Superior Court on June 12, negligent actions by Anchorage-based Trygg Air placed passengers aboard a March 7 charter flight from Scammon Bay to Anchorage in imminent fear of death.
Federal fisheries council says it may delay long-awaited decision on chum bycatch in Bering Sea

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Evan Erickson

In it most recent meeting, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council said that funding and scheduling concerns could delay final action on chum bycatch until April 2026. The potential delay has been criticized by those who say that chum salmon crashes across Western Alaska, especially on the Yukon River, require swift action. The Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association advocates for dozens of communities now in their sixth year of near-total salmon fishing closures.
Feds must consider larger potential Donlin spill, but federal judge doesn't throw out mine's permits

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Sage Smiley

Bethel’s tribal government and five other tribes from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta sued the federal government in 2023, arguing that the environmental underpinning of Donlin Gold’s permits was faulty. In her initial decision in the case in September 2024, United States District Court Judge Sharon Gleason rejected some of the tribes’ claims. But Gleason agreed that federal agencies hadn’t fully considered the potential that a dam to hold mining waste, called a tailings dam, could fail.
Bethel's unofficial first hippies reflect on 1975 trip aboard the Husky II

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Evan Erickson

In the spring of 1975, Captain Oddmund “Ole” Sumstad packed his 160-foot ship – the Husky II – tight with soda pop, candy, and lumber as he had done in prior years in preparation for his journey from Seattle up to Bethel. That year, he also hauled another type of freight: hippies from San Francisco. "We arrived with, really, 35 cents," said Beverly Hoffman, one of five friends who took passage on the Husky II that year.
Although everyone has moved, Newtok’s relocation is far from over

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Emily Schwing

The village that people know as Newtok is basically a ghost town today. What’s left of the public school has been packed into more than two dozen shipping containers. It will get shipped south later this year. No one lives in any of the houses that remain in Newtok. The only thing still operating there is the diesel generator that keeps the local cell phone tower powered. Newtok had to move because the permafrost under the community was deteriorating.
Kwethluk man convicted in 2018 sexual assault of teen in Akiak

1 week ago | kyuk.org | Evan Erickson

A Kwethluk man has been convicted of multiple felony counts of sexual assault for an incident involving a 16-year-old girl in the nearby community of Akiak in 2018. Matthew Nicori, 59, was found guilty of one count of second-degree sexual assault and one count of third-degree sexual assault on June 4 in Bethel Superior Court. The conviction followed a weeklong jury trial in Bethel in which he represented himself.