Western Alaska storm evacuees take stock of damage, with fate of villages up in the air
That included residents of Kwigillingok, who were boarding military helicopters with the few possessions they could carry.
Alaska News
Latest‘Everything is lost now’: Hundreds evacuate from Western Alaska villages
On Wednesday and Thursday, hundreds of people from Kipnuk and Kwigillingok boarded military transport planes headed for Anchorage, leaving their homes, belongings and communities behind.
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Hundreds of Alaskans evacuate two villages hardest hit by Sunday’s storm.
A quarter of homes in Napakiak have been displaced by flooding
Napakiak’s relocation coordinator said that basically every house and most businesses had water come into them when the remnants of Typhoon Halong hit the region.
NPR
LatestIn Pictures: Remembering Susan Stamberg, one of NPR’s Founding Mothers
Susan Stamberg joined NPR at its start, originally to cut tape — literal tape, with a single-sided blade — at a time when commercial networks almost never hired women.
Ex-national security adviser John Bolton indicted in classified documents case
The charges come two months after the FBI executed a search warrant at Bolton’s suburban Washington home.
Adelita Grijalva can force a vote on the Epstein files, but she’s still not sworn in
The Arizona Democrat would be the decisive signature on a petition to force a vote on releasing the records. But Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not swear her in until after the shutdown is over.
NPR ‘founding mother’ Susan Stamberg has died
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
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