Alaska State Troopers report that a man who called in on Friday night reporting that he was in a small boat several miles offshore of Stebbings and unable to make landfall because of extreme weather conditions was located on Saturday. At 8:18 pm on Friday night, AST began receiving calls from 22-year-old Cody Nick of […]
ANCHORAGE – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is conducting the final public meeting at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C. to provide input on the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program environmental impact statement (EIS). Public comments will be accepted through various other means until June 19, 2018. Anyone desiring to provide public testimony can sign […]
Alaska State Troopers in Kotzebue and Selawik responded to Buckland on Monday morning following a report of an assault incident with shots-fired incident. As troopers were arriving at Buckland, 28-year-old Rodney Hadley turned himself in to Buckland Village Police Officers. The preliminary investigation into the incident revealed that Hadley had, while intoxicated, threatened community members […]
WASHINGTON – Tuesday, Representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), joined by original cosponsors Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), introduced the “Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act” in the U.S. House of Representatives that would repeal a provision in the controversial December tax legislation mandating drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife […]