A week after Typhoon Halong passed through Japan in early October, its remnants crossed the Pacific and struck western Alaska. Nearly 50 Alaska Native communities across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta near ...

A coastal village once stood on stilts on a Bering Sea island, until its residents were forced to move to the mainland of ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Storms that battered Alaska's western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change — and revived ...

KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska (AP) — Darrel John watched the final evacuees depart his village on the western coast of Alaska in helicopters and small planes and walked home, avoiding the debris piled on the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Six years before the storm known as Halong devastated dozens of Western Alaska villages, a federal report showed 115 communities, including Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, were ...

On October 15, 2025, the reality for over 2,000 residents of Western Alaska changed overnight. Evacuees—mostly Yup’ik families from the Alaska Native villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok—boarded jets ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change — and revived ...

Some homes and buildings that were torn off their foundations and floated away are seen near the village of Kwigillingok, Alaska, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, after Typhoon Halong hit the region earlier in ...