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 […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Coast Guard task force returned to Anchorage Friday after a nine-day deployment conducting facility inspections in Northwest Arctic Borough. From July 6 through 15, members of Sector Anchorage’s Marine Safety Task Force (MSTF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) inspected 24 bulk fuel storage facilities in 11 Alaskan communities, including Kotzeue, Kivalina, […]
WASHINGTON — Wednesday, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, announced that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded over $20 million to the Robert Curtis Memorial Airport in Noorvik, and the Togiak Airport in Togiak Village. This funding was made available under the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment’s Army Aviation Operations Facility in Nome helped rescue an individual in Coffin Camp May 16, 2020. At approximately 5 a.m., the AAOF in Nome was contacted by the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center on JBER for support in picking up […]