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Chignik Bay on the Alaska Peninsula is the latest community to join GCI’s Aleutians fiber optic cable project. The telecommunications company said crews started digging trenches in Chignik Bay around the beginning of April, and GCI expects households to be able to log into broadband internet sometime this summer.
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The Unalaska Raiders brought home several awards from the Native Youth Olympics tournament held in Anchorage last week, including several first place titles.
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The Alaska Marine Highway System released its 2024 summer schedule, and the M/V Tustumena is scheduled to make one Aleutian chain run a month from May through September, totaling five port calls in Dutch Harbor.
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For three days, the boys and girls high school basketball teams from Unalakleet, Valdez, Homer, and Bethel competed in an intense environment.
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At a hearing on Jan. 16, Superior Court Judge Nathaniel Peters heard the facts of the case, including the autopsy report that noted Jane was severely malnourished and had 40 injuries on her body. The injuries ranged from fresh, to healing, to healed at the time of her death.
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Former Bethel judge Terrence Haas is now heading up the state’s Public Defender Agency. KYUK’s Francisco Martínezcuello sat down with Haas to talk about what he’s learned during his last 15 years in the community.
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According to court documents, Sharla Diane Parka was charged with first degree assault, a Class A felony, on Monday, Jan. 8.
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Bethel Regional High School’s varsity basketball teams traveled to Kenai on Wednesday, Jan. 10, then to Nikiski on Thursday, Jan. 11.
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According to an arrest warrant, 55-year-old Edward Peter and his two sons, 30-year-old Zack Peter and 23-year-old Max Peter, were charged with six felony counts of alleged assault on Jan. 2.
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Akutan is set to be the next Aleutian community to get hooked up to fiber-optic broadband internet. The Alaska-based telecommunications company GCI said in a Wednesday statement they expect to finish laying cable around the island community by the end of the month.
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The sled dog race was originally scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 13. According to Kuskokwim 300 Race Manager Paul Basile, the tentative new start date is Sunday, Jan 14.
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The State Medical Examiner’s office ruled the death a suicide, but her parents weren’t satisfied with that explanation.