The dispatch of two hasty teams by Alaska State Troopers and the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Volunteers back to back on Tuesday and Wednesday prompted AST to make two suggestions for safe traveling in the region. After receiving a report of an overdue traveler going from Kotzebue to Buckland on Tuesday morning at […]
With temperatures dipping to almost -30 degrees F, a Northwest Arctic Borough Village Public Safety Officer in Shungnak received a call-in of a female lying motionless in the snow. The officer responded to the area near the Shungnak Post Office to find a Shungnak resident, 38-year-old Elaine Tickett highly intoxicated and unable to stand in […]
One man was pronounced deceased from a gunshot wound and another was admitted to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries after Alaska State Troopers responded to a scene in Unalakleet late Sunday night. Troopers began an investigation into the circumstances that led to the death of 31-year-old Unalakleet resident Tauna Showalter and the injury of an […]
A Shungnak woman was arrested on Murder charges Wednesday after an early Christmas Eve dispute turned deadly and 25-year-old Emmalee Clark shot her cousin 33-Jeanelle Clark with a pistol, according to court documents. Those documents stated that E. Clark shot J. Clark after a physical dispute in which J. Clark told her cousin to leave the four-plex […]