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 […]
Researchers have devised a method to determine the impact of climate change on the supply and variability of local renewable energy. An increase in unusual weather patterns related to climate change means the demand for power and the availability of solar, hydro and wind energy can all become more variable. The method by researchers at […]
KODIAK, Alaska — Coast Guard aircrews medically evacuated three hunters during two separate cases near Kotzebue this week. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrew, forward deployed to Kotzebue, medevaced a 38-year-old male hunting guide and his hunting partner 110 miles northeast of Kotzebue, Monday, and another aircrew from the same air station medevaced a […]
KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard medevaced a boy after his vessel ran aground in Deering, approximately 60 miles southwest of Kotzebue, Monday evening. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew arrived on scene and landed near the vessel at 9:40 p.m., embarked the 15-year-old boy, and transported him to Kotzebue to […]