Census officials say Toksook Bay was selected to be the place where the first Americans are counted in 2020 because the majority of the village is Alaska Native – about 94% of residents are Yup ...

House Speaker Bryce Edgmon and Senate Majority Leader Cathy Giessel say the 'one big beautiful bill' approaching a Senate ...

TOKSOOK BAY — Lizzie Chimiugak has lived for 90 years in windswept Western Alaska, born to a nomadic family who lived in mud homes and followed where the good hunting and fishing led. Her home ...

The 2020 census is set to begin in Toksook Bay, Alaska, continuing the tradition of counting the most remote parts of the most northern state before the rest of the U.S.

Gloria Yucaq Sipary hugs an elder after receiving her high school diploma on graduation day, May 12, 2023. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media) Nelson Island School is the only school in Toksook Bay ...

Updated Jan. 22 at 3:41 p.m. ET. Near the iced-over Bering Sea, parka-clad workers for the U.S. Census Bureau are gathering in a remote fishing village along the southwestern rim of Alaska to ...

Members of the Toksook Bay boys basketball team celebrate after defeating Tanana 51-47 in the Class 1A boys state championship basketball game at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage on ...

TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska — There are no restaurants in Toksook Bay, Alaska. No motels or movie theater, either. There also aren't any factories. Or roads. But the first Americans to be counted in the ...

TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska — The 2020 census officially began on Tuesday in Toksook Bay, an Alaskan village on the edge of the frozen Bering Sea where census takers hoped to show they can overcome ...

TOKSOOK BAY, Alaska — Alaska National Guardsmen delivered nearly 14,000 pounds of frozen beef, chicken and pork this month to Toksook Bay, ...

The 2020 census officially starts in an Alaskan fishing village along the Bering Sea. Starting the count there in January, when the ground is frozen, makes it easier to reach far-flung communities.

BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — Toksook Bay is listening to its own radio station, 91.9 FM, because the principal at the Nelson Island School put a low-power radio station on the air.