Charging documents say 21-year-old Dustin Gooden got into a physical altercation with the VPSOs after they tried to speak with him.

“If we feel like there is any need whatsoever, any kind of a situation that might be unsafe for our students, then we immediately will go into a lockdown,” Alexander said. “We'd rather be safe than sorry.”

Heather Preece, the founder of Kodiak KINDNESS, says what families takeaway from the nearly 20-year-old organization, "is the main thing about Kindness is that we were there for them," she said.

Troopers identified the person who died as 46-year-old Elmer Brown. He was pulled from the water by search and rescue and medical personnel and transported to Maniilaq Health Center, but later died from his injuries.

On Oct. 22, the board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, also known as AIDEA, unanimously voted to make the money available to support the 211-mile project, which would connect the Dalton Highway to an undeveloped, mining region near the Brooks Range.

After assessing the damage in multiple communities, officials said the region is moving quickly to make repairs as winter sets in.

Quyana sold out both nights. It’s now in its forty-third year.

NANA Regional Corp. is supposed to uphold Iñupiat values. Some shareholders say its role in Trump's deportation machinery makes a mockery of that.

Unofficial election results for the Northwest Arctic Borough’s only contested race for Assembly Seat 4, which represents Kotzebue, show Carl Nasruk Weisner ahead of Thomas Ikaaq Baker by about 70 votes.

Dozens of residents were rescued after floodwaters in multiple communities swept homes off their foundations.