Alena Naiden

Tikigaq Harpooners Jennifer Nash and Joelian Lane get the Most Valuable Player award during the Rex Rock Tip Off 2023 tournament this weekend – both for the second time.

The other missing snowmachiner, also 18, was found Friday and was flown to Anchorage for medical treatment.

The Kotzebue Huskies girls team won Buckland 57-51, won Redington 30-27 and lost to Nome 18-43. Kotzebue Husky Boys team also won the first two games of the weekend by a good margin – 82-49 against Buckland and 62-35 against Redington. In the third game against Nome, they lost 40-51.

Utqiaġvik saw its first sunrise in over 60 days on Jan. 23, and residents at Iḷisaġvik College and Fred Ipalook Elementary School celebrated the end of polar night with the traditional “Welcome Back the Sun” dance.

Utqiaġvik saw its first sunrise in more than 60 days on Monday. Residents at Iḷisaġvik College and Fred Ipalook Elementary School celebrated the end of polar night with the traditional “Welcome Back the Sun” dance.

The other missing snowmachiner, also 18, was found Friday and was flown to Anchorage for medical treatment.

Josiah Ballot and Thomas Aki Pungalik Brown, both 18, went missing early Jan. 16 as they traveled between Kotzebue and Noorvik, Alaska State Troopers said.

In the Backyard Buoys project, residents in whaling communities will be hired to install small buoys to measure wave height and direction in real time.

Josiah Ballot and Thomas Aki Pungalik Brown, both 18, went missing early Jan. 16 as they traveled between Kotzebue and Noorvik, Alaska State Troopers say.

Josiah Ballot and Thomas Aki Pungalik Brown, both 18, went missing early Monday as they traveled between Kotzebue and Noorvik, Alaska State Troopers said.

Questions linger over what factors may have contributed to Alaska’s first fatal polar bear mauling in more than 30 years. An administrator said some employees at the Wales school hit the bear with shovels in an attempt to get it to leave.

After the public learned about the mistranslations, FEMA acknowledged the mistake and fired the California-based translation company Accent on Languages, the AP reported.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities will hold an open house on Jan. 25 in Noatak to share the history, the current status and the next steps for the Noatak Airport Relocation project.

The prizes included AC Gift Cards and large stockings filled with children’s gifts from the city, as well as prime ribs from the North Slope Borough.

The 24-year-old woman from St. Michael and her 1-year-old child were attacked in Wales near the village school in the middle of the day Tuesday, troopers said.