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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rayna Paul, environmental manager for the Native Village of Kipnuk, speaks on March 24, 2026, at the Alaska Tribal Conference on ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The village of Kipnuk, largely submerged by the remnants of Typhoon Halong, is seen from the air on Oct. 12, 2025. Alaska Air ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (ALASKA BEACON) - Testifying before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs about last fall’s deadly remnants of Typhoon Halong, Paul J. Paul, Chief of the Native Village of Kipnuk, ...
As a retired professor who has been active in environmental health since the 1960s, I have no doubt that climate change contributed to Typhoon Halong’s wind damage and flooding in Kipnuk, Kwigillingok ...
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The services of the Arkansas Division of Emergency Management will be used to strengthen recovery operations in Alaska following the devastating impact of Typhoon Halong that ...
Typhoon Halong brought catastrophic flooding to western Alaska. Some of the affected communities can be reached only by air or water. Images collected by the Alaska National Guard offer a visual ...
Pollution response teams from U.S. Coast Guard Sector Western Alaska and U.S. Arctic conduct post-storm assessments in Kipnuk, Alaska, Oct. 22, 2025, after the community was impacted by severe ...
Strong floodwaters can uproot buildings and the infrastructure first responders need to reach victims. But what if there are no roads in the first place? Typhoon Halong struck the west coast of Alaska ...
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with KYUK Public Media. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. On a Sunday morning last ...
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 ...