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 […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they received several calls from the community of Venetie, a community situated on the north side of the Chandalar River 45 miles northwest of Fort Yukon, on Tuesday, concerning burglaries and other events that had occurred in the community. As a result of the call-ins, Rural Unit troopers and Alaska Wildlife […]
KOTZEBUE—Governor Bill Walker Tuesday appointed to his Cabinet Gerad Godfrey as Senior Advisor on Rural Business and Intergovernmental Affairs. The Governor made the announcement in Kotzebue at a retreat hosted by the Alaska Federation of Natives. “I am pleased to fill this very important position with an individual of Gerad’s background and passion for rural […]
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 […]