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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

On Nov. 15, the Alaska National Guard began delivering nearly 14,000 pounds of frozen beef, chicken and pork to Toksook Bay as part of the Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training Program.

Roughly 500 miles Southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, the Yup'ik village of Toksook Bay faces the Bering Sea on the coast of Nelson Island, called Qaluyaaq by the residents who speak Yugtun.