Newhalen River News Today

A woman with the man swam to shore, troopers say.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue its final decision on the mine at the end of January.

The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages

The Bristol Bay Times - Serving Dillingham, Naknek, King Salmon and Southwest villages

Walking toward Newhalen’s Russian Orthodox church, the faint sound of singing drifts in the cold air. A bell rings. A small congregation gathers inside before going to the icy bank of the river that flows into Iliamna Lake.

When Haley VonGoedert went to sign into her very first Zoom meeting with the school she’ll be student-teaching at, she had a message saying the meeting had to be rescheduled because the Wi-Fi in the entire village was down. “It’s very remote, which is something I’ve never experienced before,” said the senior elementary education student at the University of Montana of her upcoming program placement in a tiny Alaskan fishing community. In a couple weeks, VonGoedert will ...

Not many of us have accepted jobs that require our food and personal items to be delivered to us via floatplane. Today, we celebrate the ambitions of a University of Montana student, as she prepares to embark on a journey to a remote Alaskan fishing village of mostly Indigenous peoples. There, she will do her student teaching. If you want to visit her, you will need a seaplane or ocean ferry. This is the calling for UM senior Haley VonGoedert, an elementary education major, who is  busy making...