After last year’s storm, this remote Alaska town is still picking up the pieces

Construction crews work on houses and other building throughout Kipnuk after ex-typhoon Halong hit Alaska’s coast in October of 2025. Gabby Hiestand Salgado/KYUK

Gabby Hiestand Salgado/KYUK

Last fall, the remnants of Typhoon Halong tore through numerous small Alaska Native villages off the road system in Western Alaska. The storm destroyed infrastructure, floated homes off their foundations, and displaced over a thousand people. A year later, hundreds remain displaced as the slow work of repair in