Kobuk News

Photos courtesy of Constance Baltuck "Grayling Stream" by Constance Baltuck was donated to the visitors center at the Kobuk Valley National Park in Kotzebue.

The Kobuk 440 gets underway tonight at 6pm in Kotzebue. The race runs through six area villages including Norvik, Ambler and Kiana.

In February I took a snowgo trip a hundred or so miles east of Kobuk, along the south side of the Brooks Range.

The common definition of "Unalakleet" is "the place where the east wind blows." It certainly blows from the east there -- 20 mph is considered calm.

Federal prosecutors say a 39-year-old Kobuk man has been sentenced to almost four years in prison for his conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm.