Kotzebue News

A judge in Kotzebue on Friday rejected a defense motion to dismiss the charges against two Point Hope men accused of wasting caribou during a hunt in July 2008.

Published: November 3rd, 2009 01:25 PM Last Modified: November 3rd, 2009 01:26 PM Link: Alaska Dispatch As the trial date approaches for the defendants in the Point Hope caribou slaughter , Dispatch correspondent Seth Kantner of Kotzebue writes of villagers' relationship with caribou and about his own family's dependence on caribou meat.

Alaska is getting tougher on people who illegally bring alcohol to rural communities.

Elizabeth Hensley described an Alaska Native community at war Thursday. The fight is a legal one, for control of traditional Native land and hunting and fishing rights, she said, and a spiritual battle against social ills that can be traced back to colonization.

A truck hauls rock and minerals at the Red Dog mine. Red Dog operator Teck Alaska says it expects approvals next month from federal agencies allowing the company to develop a new mining area called Aqqaluk.

Members of the Alaska Native Veterans Association unveiled a statue honoring the Alaska Territorial Guard on Wednesday.

Most days in Nome, you're not likely to run into anybody you didn't see at the Breakers Bar on Friday night.

An effort to allow city-run liquor sales in Kotzebue has passed 412-365, according to a final but unofficial count Friday.

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Submitted by Billy Hackett on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 02:57. Voters in Fairbanks and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough have rejected sales taxes while measures that could lead to increased availability of booze were winning in Bethel and Kotzebue.

HUBS: Voters favor lifting of prohibition; foes fear consequences in the bush. Published: October 7th, 2009 09:59 PM Last Modified: October 7th, 2009 10:20 PM Voters in two regional shopping hubs in rural Alaska are on pace to loosen liquor rules after decades of prohibition.

Ten people ranging in age from 20 to 57 were arrested this week in Selawik after Alaska State Troopers got reports some of them were flashing cash stolen in a break-in at the village store, troopers said Wednesday.

MONEY: Arctic Slope sets earnings record for year -- $2.3 billion. Anchorage Daily News Published: October 3rd, 2009 12:35 AM Last Modified: October 3rd, 2009 03:03 AM Native corporations dominate the newest list of the largest Alaska-based, Alaskan-owned businesses.

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MEASURE 4: Most expensive battle in state's history could prove costly for both sides.

Published: September 29th, 2009 11:40 AM Last Modified: September 29th, 2009 11:41 AM Link: The Tundra Drums Anchorage economist David Marshall, who has studied suicide and accidental death in village Alaska, writes that voter approval of alcohol sales in upcoming Bethel and Kotzebue referendums will be result in disaster: " It will raise ...

While each day is growing shorter in terms of the amount of sunlight shining, the strength of the sun may locally become noticeable next week as it aligns with telecommunication equipment on the ground and in space.

A Seattle-area accountant has been accused of cheating an Alaska Native corporate subsidiary out of $188,000. Clyde Thomas Beard of Federal Way was charged Friday with mail fraud.

The chief financial officer of an Alaska native-owned corporation has been charged with bilking the company out of $188,000. In charges filed Friday, federal prosecutors claim NANA Services CFO Clyde Thomas Beard defrauded the Kotzebue, Alaska, corporation by redirecting funds to his own accounts by falsifying expense reports.

Published: September 19th, 2009 09:00 PM Last Modified: September 19th, 2009 09:24 PM BETHEL -- Nearly every crime here in Alaska's largest rural hub is soaked in liquor.