Kotzebue News

On Feb. 5 Northern Air Cargo announced it had hired Deedre Nicola to complement their statewide sales team.

LOCATION: On the north bank of the Kobuk River, 57 air miles east of Kotzebue. DESCRIPTION: A traditional Inupiat Eskimo village that practices a subsistence lifestyle and where almost 93 percent of the ...

Alaska State Troopers say 40-year-old David Commack of Selawik dove into the water from a boat Friday and never surfaced.

Half the state's lawmakers came to this Arctic community - some grabbing as many as three flights to reach the nation's northernmost town - to continue a monthlong and statewide debate on a natural gas pipeline ...

' A new proposal by House Speaker John Harris would lend support to a major Fairbanks energy project and could dwarf Gov.

Two backpackers who sent a distress beacon about 40 miles north of Ambler when one broke his foot Monday were rescued safely, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Alaska State Troopers say at least five people are suspected of breaking into teacher housing in Noorvik and using the dwellings to party.

Last summer, I went to Kotzebue to testify before the Senate Climate Commission.

The tough, no nonsense prosecutor who doubled the size of the Kenai District Attorney's office will leave her position in August to take on a new role as assistant attorney general in the Department of Law ...

' University of Alaska Fairbanks' new interim chancellor, Brian Rogers, is looking for input from the community.

Blotter Wednesday, June 18, 2008 On June 11, at 11:10 a.m., Alaska State Troopers in Kotzebue got a report of a domestic violence assault in the village of Deering; a woman had allegedly been assaulted by her ...

Published: June 12th, 2008 08:59 PM Last Modified: June 12th, 2008 09:00 PM A case of beer and a bottle of whiskey cost the owner of Ambler Air Service $55,000 this week.

Cordova Electric Cooperative Executive Director Clay Koplin used a grant of more than $2 million that arrived May 22 to wipe out the final debt for Cordova's Power Creek Hydro project.

Rotary International has provided humanitarian aid to remote places around the world for more than 100 years, so doing the same for isolated villages in rural Alaska made sense to Soldotna member Cliff Baker.

From the Bering Land Bridge to the oil pipeline, state has a storied past Alaska.com Although Alaska's statehood is relatively brief, the state's history is long and colorful.

The mother of a one-year-old Noorvik child is mourning the loss of the child. The child died over the weekend, when it apparently wandered outside the family home and fell into a large puddle.

The Red Dog mine is seen in this file photo. An attorney representing communities near the mine say a lawsuit alleging thousands of violations against federal environmental laws is nearly settled.

Published: May 27th, 2008 04:11 PM Last Modified: May 27th, 2008 04:12 PM World zinc prices closed below $1 a pound Tuesday for the first time in over two years.

Gov. Sarah Palin's promise of a 60 percent cut in electric bills will likely amount to far less than was originally promised for many Alaskans.

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