Alakanuk, Alaska

• Shopping for a store in Nunam Iqua
  

  News of an economic crisis on the lower Yukon River grabbed the nation's attention last year, thanks to low salmon returns and towering energy prices.

• Students 'shoehorned' into small schools
  

  Rep. Bob Herron leads rural school trip delegation back to Kipnuk airport. From left: Eric Hamre, security; Cynthia Sims, governor's Anchorage office director; Rep.

• Bush schools wait years for upgrades, facilities
  

  More than a decade after a state judge ruled that Alaska's system of funding for new and renovated schools was unconstitutional, the system remains unchanged and the backlog of projects in the Bush amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars.

• Parnell seeks plan for rural school construction
  

  The words in the photo read: "Blocks hold up this classroom. The foundation is crumbling." In Alakanuk, these outbuildings are former shops or garages converted into classrooms.

• Southwest Alaska to get 4G wireless service
  

  In the last year Anchorage got 3G wireless service, many parts of the bush got cell phone service for the first time and 4G was rolled out in the Lower 48.

• Intoxicated mother rolls over baby in bed
  

  A 2-month-old infant was killed while sleeping after its mother rolled over and suffocated the child, according to Alaska State Troopers.

City Description

Alakanuk (ah-LUCK-uh-nuck) (Alarneq in Central Yup'ik) is a 2nd-class city in the Wade Hampton Census Area of the Unorganized Borough in the western part of the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city was 652. Alakanuk is located at 62.688890° North, 164.61528° West (Sec. 14, T030N, R082W, Seward Meridian). Alakanuk is located in the Bethel Recording District. Alakanuk is located at the east entrance of Alakanuk Pass, the major southern channel of the Yukon River, 15 miles (24 km) from the Bering Sea. It is part of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. It lies 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Emmonak, approximately 162 air miles northwest of Bethel. It is the longest village on the lower Yukon - the development stretches over a 3-mile (4.8 km) area along the Pass. Approximately 25 homes along the bank are being threatened by erosion. The climate of Alakanuk is subarctic, averaging 60 inches (1,500 mm) of snowfall and 19 inches (480 mm) of total precipitation per year. Temperatures range from between -25 to 79 °F (26 °C). Heavy winds are frequent during the fall and winter. The Yukon River is used as an ice road during freeze-up, from November through

City Contained By:

• United States of America
• Alaska
• Wade Hampton Census Area

Timezones:

• Alaska Time Zone

Size:

• 106.189512524 km squared

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