Kiana News

Summer is off and running, meaning a new crop of visitors and the stories they bring.

Village Police Officer Clarence Snyder is giving a tour of the Selawik city jail.

Kourtney Altman, of Juneau, and Skylar Melton, of Cave Junction, Ore., and Juneau, will be married at 4 p.m. Friday, April 25, 2009, at the Juneau Yacht Club.

VENEZUELA: Self-styled U.S. foe Chavez pays for program to benefit poor communities.

Alaska State Troopers on Friday offered some chilling statistics. In the previous 10 days, search and rescue efforts had been launched for 19 people in Alaska.

Troopers today arrested a man in Noorvik who was wanted for second-degree murder in connection with the November crash that killed an Anchorage doctor.

Two Kiana snowmachiners missing since Friday were found dead about 10 miles south of Kotzebue, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday.

Cheri Scott of Anchorage and Jeanne Gerhardt-Cyrus of Kiana in Northwest Alaska never intended to become lay experts on the issue of children exposed to alcohol while in their mothers' wombs.

Alaska's tourism industry is taking a hit because of the downturn in the U.S. economy, as well as the slowdown in the economy globally.

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-400 combi can be loaded with bypass mail and haul passengers but will not be able to land at unpaved airports in rural Alaska that are proposed by the US Postal System.

Six people have killed themselves in communities in western Alaska this month, many of them teenagers.