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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The search is continuing for 18-year-old Thomas Brown of Ambler, who went missing on Monday, January 16th while traveling to Noorvik from Kotzebue with traveling partner 18-year-old Josiah Ballot of Selawik. AST reported that one of the snowmachining duo was located on Friday afternoon after a private aircraft located Ballot 28 miles south of Kotzebue […]