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 […]
During the early morning hours on Friday, Alaska State Troopers were informed that a 38-year-old man in that community had died as a direct result of a fight with another man in the village. Immediately after receiving the notification of the incident at 1:30 am, troopers departed from Kotzebue to the village 70 miles to […]
Alaska state trooper’s report that there were no injuries reported in Tuesday’s Selawik shooting incident and one arrest has been made. Troopers say the calls began coming in on Tuesday reporting a morning shooting incident in the community of Selawik, with calls continuing to come in until Thursday. Interviews were completed by troopers during the […]