On Friday afternoon, troopers were notified of two overdue boaters that failed to show up in Noorvik. According to the persons reporting the incident, the two boaters left Kotzebue at 8 pm the night before on the two-hour trip to Noorvik but never arrived. After the two were reported overdue on Friday, the Northwest Arctic […]
A four-year-old boy was the only survivor of unfortunate boating accident on the Kobuk River on Monday, the Alaska State troopers revealed on Thursday evening. According to the trooper report posted on the trooper dispatch, On Monday, 54-year-old Merna Sheldon, her son Albert Sheldon, 34 years of age, and her grandson, four year old Jim Sheldon, “departed […]
A Search and Rescue for two overdue snow-machiners from Noorvik ended sadly on Friday, the trooper dispatch reported. At 12:07 pm on Friday, Alaska State Troopers were notified by the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Coordinator, Lena Ferguson, that two men, identified as 34-year-old Richard Patterson and 44-year-old Fred Melton were overdue from a […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska —Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a man in Gates of the Arctic National Park, July 21. The man had been rafting down the Kobuk River, northwest of Bettles, when his raft overturned, according to Capt. John Romspert, a controller with the Alaska […]