Selawik News

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

WEB OF PROBLEMS: Teens say they're stressed, need adults to support them and be role models.

Some of the children of Willie and Krystal Ballot in their home in Selawik, Alaska on Wednesday April 22, 2009.

A former village public safety officer has been sentenced to six months in jail and fined $10,000 for selling home brew.

A 57-year-old Selawik woman has been charged with stabbing a family member during an argument.

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

A former village public safety officer in a Northwest Alaska village pleaded guilty this month to making peach-flavored homebrew that troopers say he sold by the gallon in plastic garbage bags to locals.

LOCATION : On the south bank of the Koyukuk River, adjacent to and south of the City of Allakaket, about 190 air miles northwest of Fairbanks.

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

Alaska State Troopers and state health officials are reporting a stunning number of suicides so far this month in Western Alaska, most of them teenagers.

Reindeer herds, like this one pictured in Kotzebue, were constantly in danger of wolf attacks in the 1940s.