Kotzebue News

James Dommek Jr., who has toured the U.S. as the drummer for the Anchorage band The Whipsaws, will play selections from his debut solo album "Sometimes Always Never" on Jan.

Coast Guard Capt. Bill Deal, commanding officer at Air Station Kodiak, right, assists in loading boxes of silver salmon fillets onto pallets at Elmendorf Air Force Base Dec.

Long before spring breakup, when many residents of rural Alaska head off to fish camps, U.S. Census Bureau workers will begin their count of residents living in communities off the road systems.

The Coast Guard plans to deliver more than 13 tons of donated salmon to Kotzebue next week.

Editors Note: Media wishing to attend this event are asked to reply no later than Saturday to 907-487-5700 or 907-321-4505 KODIAK, Alaska A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak C-130 Hercules aircraft crew is scheduled to deliver approximately 27,000 pounds of donated silver salmon fillets and dry goods to Kotzebue Monday as part of a special food drive ...

The Coast Guard plans to deliver more than 13 tons of donated salmon to Kotzebue next week.

Each week, KAKM gathers commentators for a review of the weeka s news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.

The University of Alaska Southeast and the University of Alaska Anchorage School of Nursing held a pinning ceremony for graduates of the Associate Degree Nursing Program on Sunday, December 13 on the Auke Lake campus.

At approximately 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 11, the subject of an extensive manhunt in the Northwest Arctic, Jason Douglas Black, turned himself into Alaska State Troopers in Noorvik, peacefully ending a four-day search for the suspected rapist.

Independent Trio Petroleum plans to drill first well in Selawik basin in late 2010, permitting for both oil and gas Kay Cashman Petroleum News A Bakersfield, Calif., independent is preparing to drill an oil and gas well next year in one of North America's last unexplored basins - northwest Alaska's Selawik basin, in more recent years referred to as ...

Troopers spokeswoman Beth Ipsen says 26-year-old Jason Douglas Black of Kotzebue turned himself in late Friday in the village of Noorvik.

The board of a state business-lending and development agency has approved paying a $23.4 million dividend from its profits to the state general fund.

A search is under way in northwest Alaska for a 26-year-old Kotzebue man accused of sexually assaulting a young woman in Selawik.

Noorvik overturns ban on Native dance Published: November 20th, 2009 11:51 AM Last Modified: November 20th, 2009 01:51 PM Link: Arctic Sounder Inupiaq elders and the Christian church congregation in Noorvik, near Kotzebue, have voted to overturn a century-old ban on traditional dancing in the village.

From 1963: Mr. and Mrs. Chester Seveck, Eskimos who live in Kotzebue, Alaska, near the Arctic Circle, stopped in Des Moines Thursday to promote travel in Alaska.

Native military veterans John James and James Lindoff Jr., standing, and Jerry Eldemar and Leo Williams, kneeling, with a statue of an Eskimo soldier in the Territorial Guard.

President Barack Obama addressed troops at Elmendorf Air Force Base Thursday, marking his first trip to Alaska with a commitment to service members.

BLIZZARDS: Meanwhile, wet snow in Anchorage makes for icy intersections. Published: November 11th, 2009 09:19 PM Last Modified: November 11th, 2009 09:24 PM The National Weather Service warned major coastal flooding was possible in east Norton Sound villages Wednesday night as storms hammered much of Western and Northern Alaska during the day.

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.