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First lady Jill Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland promote broadband investment in a historic visit to Bethel

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The federal government in recent years has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Alaska to pay for new broadband extensions, including to the Western Alaska hub city.

That so-called Airraq Network project is named after a

The region has also received a $53 million grant awarded last year to Alaska Communications and Calista Corp., the regional Alaska Native corporation, to extend fiber to seven other villages in the Bethel region. Before Biden spoke, local leaders took the stage to talk about the region’s broadband shortcomings. They raised other pressing problems, like crashing salmon runs and a lack of running water and sewer in many communities, another problem that’s also gettingfrom the infrastructure act. Many households in the region still use buckets instead of toilets.

 

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