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.

Community members say the water has been restored. But with winter rapidly approaching, some of the 800 residents in the Northwest Arctic community still worry about the town's water situation.

There were no injuries reported from the shots fired.

Communities in Northwest Alaska have been scrambling to deal with flooding and erosion.

Alaska State Troopers responded to the village Monday, after the 7-year-old boy had been missing for two days.

According to a trooper dispatch, the body of 21-year-old Henry Penn Jr. of Noatak was found a mile downriver from the community on June 26.

According to court documents, on Sunday 45-year-old Clarence Snyder Jr. threatened his wife and children with a pistol. One of Snyder’s children allegedly told troopers that Snyder fired the pistol twice in his wife’s direction while she was lying on the floor crying and that both parents were intoxicated at the time.

According to court documents, a witness saw 62-year-old Lowell Sage Jr. pull out a gun and shoot the victim, after teasing between the two men escalated.

The passenger plane that crashed near Nome last month, killing all 10 people on board, was hundreds of pounds overweight, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

Court documents show Alaska State Troopers received an anonymous tip on March 12 that 23-year-old Spencer Pungalik and another man from Noorvik planned to transport the airfreighted alcohol from Kotzebue’s airport to Selawik.