Nome based-Alaska State Troopers report that they received a report on Tuesday, of a missing snow-machiner who was attempting to travel from Nome to Koyuk. According to troopers, 26-year-old Koyuk resident, Jeffery Kimoktoak, began his trek via snow-machine on Sunday. Kimoktoak initially set out alone, on his new Polaris Pro S, and made it as far […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard concluded Arctic Shield 2015 Tuesday after a successful period of sustained operations of deployed personnel and assets in the Arctic. Throughout Arctic Shield operations, the Coast Guard strategically positioned and operated cutters, aircraft, and personnel from Nome through the Bering Strait to the Arctic, and as far north as […]
This is not Henry Allen’s Tanana River. Nor is it the Trail River of people living here thousands of years before the nineteenth-century government explorer struggled his way down the Tanana. But it seems close. I’m on a family trip down the wide brown river, starting where it arcs from the mountains to Fairbanks. Wife, […]
Although the dispatch does not reveal the details leading up to a search warrant carried out in Nome on Thursday, it did report that Nome Western Alaska Alcohol and Narcotics Team and Nome-based Alaska State Troopers carried out a search warrant on a suspected marijuana grow in that community. When officers traveled to the location in the Dexter/Triple Creek […]