KODIAK, Alaska — Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrews demobilized the forward operating location in Kotzebue, Friday, and moved efforts to Utqiagvik. The move is due to an impact to search and rescue capabilities following a hangar door malfunction, which left helicopters unprotected from cold weather that would cause them to freeze overnight. “Our aircraft […]
Utqiaġvik, Alaska – Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative (ASTAC) has donated $15,000 to the North Slope Borough School District’s Battle of the Books program. This is ASTAC’s sixth year sponsoring the region’s reading competition and during that time the number of participants has grown by 40 percent. About 490 students took part in the program […]
The Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit with the Alaska State Troopers announced a drug/alcohol seizure made at an airlines bound for Utqiagvik (Barrow) with the assistance of the North Slope Borough Police Department on Thursday. According to the announcement, SDEU and detectives with the NSBPD seized 113 750ml bottles of alcohol being shipped from Las Vegas […]
Two things happened on top of the world this week. In Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), on Jan. 22 the sun topped the horizon for the first time since mid-November. The day before that, Jan. 21, was the first time since Halloween the town’s thermometers recorded a below-normal daily average air temperature. The returning daylight for the […]