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 […]
On Friday morning, troopers were notified that a Noorvik man was missing and last seen the day prior at 3 pm. Upon notification, the Alaska State Troopers, United States Coast Guard and local searchers initiated a search for the missing person identified as 58-year-old Ivan Fields. According to reports, Fields was last seen on Thursday […]
On Friday afternoon, troopers were notified of two overdue boaters that failed to show up in Noorvik. According to the persons reporting the incident, the two boaters left Kotzebue at 8 pm the night before on the two-hour trip to Noorvik but never arrived. After the two were reported overdue on Friday, the Northwest Arctic […]