The man’s friends and family — while protesting and demanding that police reopen the case — have begun an investigation of their own.
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Operation Santa heads to Chevak and Buckland in Western Alaska
Operation Santa recipient communities are identified by the state as communities that have experienced particular hardship that year.
Thousands of lightning strikes spark more than a dozen wildfires in Northwest Alaska
There are several communities in close proximity to new fires.
Northwest Alaska village of Buckland floods due to ice jam
An ice jam caused by warming spring temperatures near the village of Buckland has left most of the town underwater and cut off access to the airport road.
After early containment, COVID-19 spreads rapidly in rural Alaska
Northern and Northwest Alaska now have the highest case rates in the state.
Village of Buckland, pop. 500, sees large spike of COVID-19 with 11 new cases
Maniilaq officials say six of the residents are showing symptoms of the virus, and all of them are medically isolated in Buckland.
Workers on Kotzebue’s solar project just hauled the last of 1,440 panels across the tundra
The 576-kilowatt project in Kotzebue is the second largest in the state, next to the Willow Solar Farm in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
A solar project in rural Alaska takes aim at sky-high electric bills
A new renewable energy project in Buckland aims to demonstrate solar and wind power’s potential to reduce the region’s sky-high utility costs.