KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrew, forward deployed to Kotzebue, rescued three teenagers stranded near Selawik Lake, Tuesday afternoon. The three teenagers were found safely onshore and brought back to Selawik. At approximately 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Coast Guard 17th District watchstanders received an agency assist request to help locate three teenagers […]
Selawik-based troopers report a fatality in a trooper-involved shooting on Thursday. Troopers report that AST responded to a burglary involving a firearm at 5:02 am on Thursday and searched the area before locating two suspects, one armed with a shotgun. At 5:40, the officer “perceived a threat” and discharged their service weapon at 26-year-old Douglas […]
On Wednesday night Alaska State Troopers were notified of the drowning of a young child in Selawik. The Maniilaq Hospital contacted troopers at 9:03pm on Wednesday and reported that “a young child in Selawik was found floating in the river just outside of the parent’s residence and is deceased,” according to the report. Medical personnel […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, ALASKA –The State Emergency Operations Center continues to be in contact with the City of Selawik in order to gain status updates on the response to the disruption of electricity and subsequent water and sewer infrastructure damage following extreme cold temperatures. The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) has been working with […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The rural community of Selawik suffered a power outage Feb. 14, and a subsequent shutdown of their water treatment plant in which clean water and sewage pipes then froze due to extremely low temperatures. The traditional Inupiat Eskimo community of nearly 900 people is in the Northwest Arctic Borough (NWAB) […]
Katie Kangas operates a bed-and-breakfast in Ruby, Alaska. On the morning of October 15, she turned to look out her picture window, toward the cabin next door. She was waiting for her client to switch the light on, at which point she would step out and deliver his breakfast. Staring out into the darkness, […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed that a Selawik woman has been arrested and jailed on attempted murder and assault charges following a report of a nine-month-old infant being treated for injuries at the Selawik clinic on Sunday. Troopers were informed of the injured infant at 5:46 pm on Sunday and opened an investigation with 26-year-old Albertha […]
A mixture of young and veteran Alaska firefighters left BLM Alaska Fire Service facilities at Fort Wainwright Friday morning to help with the busy fire season in the Lower 48. Three emergency firefighter crews from Upper Kalskag, Selawik and Noorvik plus the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Nanook Fire Crew were handed two sack lunches and boarded […]
Alaska State Troopers say that their death investigation into the death of a Fairbanks man who died outside of Selawik Hot Springs currently shows no suspicious circumstances. 27-year-old Travis Loughridge, of Fairbanks departed Shungnak at approximately noon on Saturday on his way to Fairbanks. When he departed, he was on a black Ski-Doo 800 and […]