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‘You’d be crying at the pump’: This Alaska village’s gas was $8.44 — before the Iran war

Posted 6/3/26

This story is co-published by Northern Journal and Bethel-based public media outlet KYUK. HOOPER BAY, ALASKA — Every few weeks this winter, 75-year-old Harvey Joe, an Yup’ik elder in this Western Alaska village, climbed onto his snowmachine. Dragging a sled with a fuel drum on top, he’d bump 20 miles across the tundra to the neighboring […]

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