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Couple missing for four days in Northwest Alaska

A man and a woman have been missing for four days in Northwest Alaska. Searchers on Saturday were looking for the couple who were last seen leaving Kotzebue, 26 miles north of the Arctic Circle, on a snowmachine.

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RURAL ALASKA

Slain VPSO was trying to run when he was shot, troopers say

The village public safety officer shot and killed in the Western Alaska community of Manokotak on Tuesday was a former Assembly of God pastor, and the first VPSO to be killed in the line of duty since 1986.
RURAL ALASKA

Bethel searchers find body of snowmachiner missing a week

Volunteers with Bethel Search and Rescue found Harvey Pitka, a 32-year-old Russian Mission resident, about 30 miles north of Bethel and more than six miles from his snowmachine, Alaska State Troopers said.
RURAL ALASKA

3 hospitalized after plane crashes on Kuskokwim

Three people were hospitalized when a plane crashed and flipped Tuesday afternoon on the Kuskokwim River ice near the village of Upper Kalskag, Alaska State Troopers say.
RURAL ALASKA

Three hospitalized after plane crashes on Kuskokwim

Three people were hospitalized when a plane crashed and flipped Tuesday afternoon on the Kuskokwim River ice near the village of Upper Kalskag, Alaska State Troopers reported.
RURAL ALASKA

Bethel brothers survive blizzard afer two nights in snow cave

Two teenage brothers from Bethel lost in a blizzard for two nights outside the Western Alaska city were rescued Wednesday and reported to be in good condition.
RURAL ALASKA

How many Eskimo words for 'snow'? Maybe more than you think

Anthropologist Franz Boas didn't mean to spark a century-long argument. Traveling through the icy wastes of Baffin Island in northern Canada during the 1880s, Boas simply wanted to study the life of the local Inuit people.
RURAL ALASKA

Seth Kantner: Wonderful memories of the amazingly accurate black gun

There's been a lot of talk in the news lately about guns. AR-15's have been getting attention again.
THE VILLAGE BLOG

Leaving the city behind for village life

An exodus of villagers to Alaska cities -- an urban migration -- grabbed headlines over the past decade. But the river flows both ways as many rural residents return to hometowns across the state.
ENVIRONMENT

Obama issues disaster declaration for storms

President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration for large parts of Alaska affected by storms, winds, flooding and landslides during the last half of September.
ANCHORAGE

Homeless man downloaded child pornography to office computer, police say

A homeless man is facing child pornography charges after he downloaded illegal pictures to a public computer at a Haines tribal office, according to the charging document.