Alaska State Troopers report success in the search for the missing snow-machiner that was reported overdue during the early morning hours of Wednesday. Troopers, cooperating with the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue, initiated a search for a 54-year-old Brooklyn resident, Glenn Thomas, at 2:40 AM on Wednesday morning. He had been reported overdue on […]
A Search and Rescue for two overdue snow-machiners from Noorvik ended sadly on Friday, the trooper dispatch reported. At 12:07 pm on Friday, Alaska State Troopers were notified by the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Coordinator, Lena Ferguson, that two men, identified as 34-year-old Richard Patterson and 44-year-old Fred Melton were overdue from a […]
It was reported on Monday that the Kiana Village Public Safety Officer Matt Sperl was assaulted by a suspect in that community while placing that person under arrest on Assault charges on Saturday. After receiving a report of a disturbance in the community of Kiana on Saturday, that village’s VPSO went to the scene at […]
The small community of Noatak awoke to a series of earthquakes originating in the Brooks Range on Monday morning. The first quake occurred at 3:38 am measuring a magnitude 3.1, it was generated at a depth of 10.6 miles 25 miles east of Noatak. A second quake occurred 22 minutes later at 4 am. This one […]