ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program was awarded $5 million to expand its full-time Acceleration Academy component to three more Alaska communities. Currently operating in Anchorage, Bethel and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Acceleration Academy will become available to students in Dillingham, Kotzebue and Juneau in fall 2022. A residential component will be […]
ANCHORAGE – A Kotzebue man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to seven years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for cyberstalking two individuals who were carrying out their professional responsibilities to protect a child from abuse or neglect. According to court documents, Louis Holger Eklund, 41, relentlessly […]
Alaska State Troopers began receiving multiple calls from residents in Kivalina beginning at 2:37 am on Sunday reporting shots fired with “at least two people firing a weapon and one person with a possible gunshot wound.” Kotzebue-based troopers responded to Kivalina and opened an investigation that found an altercation had broken out and “Theodore Booth […]
