A Search and Rescue for two overdue snow-machiners from Noorvik ended sadly on Friday, the trooper dispatch reported. At 12:07 pm on Friday, Alaska State Troopers were notified by the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Coordinator, Lena Ferguson, that two men, identified as 34-year-old Richard Patterson and 44-year-old Fred Melton were overdue from a […]
Early Thursday morning Alaska State Troopers based in Kotzebue received an assault report from the community of Amber, the trooper dispatch revealed on Sunday. Troopers were called and informed of an assault involving weapons at 12:30 am on Thursday morning. After an investigation that revealed that 27-year-old Woodrow A. Griest of Ambler, while intoxicated, discharged […]
It was reported on Monday that the Kiana Village Public Safety Officer Matt Sperl was assaulted by a suspect in that community while placing that person under arrest on Assault charges on Saturday. After receiving a report of a disturbance in the community of Kiana on Saturday, that village’s VPSO went to the scene at […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Governor Bill Walker issued a Disaster Declaration on October 14 for the August North Slope Borough storm that damaged roads and necessitated substantial emergency protective measures. The Disaster Declaration activates the State of Alaska Public Assistance program which is designed to help communities make repairs to utilities, public buildings, roads, bridges, and […]