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 […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard 17th District stood up forward operating locations in Deadhorse and Barrow Wednesday to achieve the strategic goals of operation Arctic Shield 2015. “With increased maritime activity in the Arctic, forward deploying assets and personnel to the region will provide an increased opportunity to conduct our statutory missions,” said Rear Adm. […]