A Year After Floodwaters Swept Away an Alaskan Native Village, Residents Remain in Limbo

KWIGILLINGOK, Alaska—Lucy Martin’s family was among the last to be evacuated from Kwigillingok, a Yup’ik village a quarter mile from the Bering Sea that was devastated by Typhoon Halong in October 2025. A year later, Martin, the village’s tribal resilience coordinator, is still in Bethel, a regional hub about 70 miles to the northeast, and […]