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In the Backyard Buoys project, subsistence hunters and fishermen collaborate with scientists and developers to install small buoys in the locations traditionally used for subsistence and monitor the wave data they gather. A new app is set to go live in May to make that information accessible to hunters.
Northwest Arctic Borough will distribute and install lithium-powered 10-year sealed smoke alarms in every village starting this month.
The board planned to vote to adopt the budget on April 30. Currently, the district budget is at the $9.3 million deficit.
Over 200 students attended the four-day-long Alaska Association of Student Government Spring Conference in Utqiagvik.
Alaska Commercial Company in partnership with Nunamiut Corporation opened the store on April 15.
Currently, the seat is held by Kotzebue Republican Thomas Baker, who was appointed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. The candidate filing deadline is June 1.
Quintillion reconfigured the network and temporarily restored service as of Tuesday afternoon, the company’s president said.
Twenty women hit the trail April 13, riding from Kotzebue to Noorvik and back in the all-women cross-country Gunner 120 snowmachine race.
“I really feel honored and blessed to be able to feed our people and hopefully continue to keep doing this the way we were taught,” captain Russel Lane said.
Mushers experience the race from a different angle as volunteers of the Kobuk 440.
Non-local hunters are prohibited from hunting caribou in the Northwest Arctic until the herd sufficiently rebounds.
Power was partially restored in the village, while additional repairs will continue
Northwest Arctic Borough volunteer firefighters responded to the blaze Tuesday afternoon.
Holmes — who is originally from Alabama, mushes out of Brushkana and is featured on the reality TV show “Life Below Zero” on National Geographic — won the Kobuk 440 title last year and in 2017.