This Day in Alaska History-October 12th, 1930
Alaska Guardsmen plan training in Kotzebue to maintain Arctic readiness
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Approximately 20 Guardsmen from the Alaska National Guard’s Joint Staff are scheduled to conduct training in Kotzebue, Feb. 21-24, 2023. The event will demonstrate the unit’s ability to deploy and operate in an austere and remote cold-weather environment. Performing missions in the Arctic challenges Guardsmen to employ field-craft skills, like […]
Marshal Investigates Fatal Structure Fire in Kotzebue
Alaska State Troopers said on Monday that the Friday night fire in Kotzebue is still under investigation. The Kotzebue Fire Department notified the Alaska State Troopers that they responded to a structure fire at 9:33 pm on Friday night. They told AST that it was unknown if anyone was in the building on Whittier Street […]
Search for Teens near Kotzebue comes to a Close with Discovery of Thomas Brown’s Remains Wednesday
The Department of Public Safety announced its final update in the case of the snowmachiners that went missing when they attempted to travel to Noorvik from Kotzebue on January 16th, after the body of the second person was located on Wednesday afternoon. After a North Slope Borough helicopter arrived in Kotzebue with searchers, those searchers […]