For a town of its size (4,300 people), Barrow receives more visits by scientists than anyplace in America. The northernmost community in the U.S. has hosted researchers since Army Lieutenant P. Henry Ray built a polar observatory there in 1882. This different-than-anywhere-else place with fewer people than a one-stoplight town in Texas has attracted scientists […]
Very little information has been revealed by the Alaska State Troopers and the North Slope Borough Police Department concerning the officer-involved shooting death of Barrow’s Volunteer Fire Department’s Chief, 36-year-old Vincent Nageak III as of Thursday morning. A North Slope Borough police officer responded to Nageak’s address on the 7400 block of North Star Street […]
JUNEAU – Governor Bill Walker announced Monday he has accepted financial support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance Program to address damage caused by an August storm in the North Slope Borough. The Governor’s office was notified late last week that the agency had accepted the state’s request for disaster assistance and […]
The discovery of marijuana and marijuana products in luggage at a local air carrier in Anchorage led to a drug bust in Wasilla on Wednesday, troopers report. The trooper dispatch reported on Thursday that “a North Slope Borough Police investigator, currently assigned to the Anchorage AST WAANT unit located a piece of luggage in a […]