Desiree Hagen, KOTZ - Kotzebue
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The study doesn’t promote EVs, but aims to better understand their usage in rural Alaska and clarify misconceptions about them.
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With temperatures falling into the minus-30s, local crews are scrambling to thaw the city’s water system. -
With winter quickly approaching, many homes are unsafe. Two homes, Kotzebue’s dock, roads, bridges and subsistence camps were destroyed. -
At least one home collapsed into Kotzebue Sound during Tuesday's flooding, which forced more than 80 people to evacuate. -
Kotzebue water levels Tuesday were 3 to 4 feet above the normal high tide line, with “significant beach erosion” likely. -
The erosion that prompted Gov. Mike Dunleavy's action is advancing on the Northwest Alaska community's water lines. -
Researchers believe that if permafrost thaw continues at its current rate, it could pose a real threat to many Alaska communities. -
The mine's operator, Teck Alaska, Inc., has paid nearly half a million dollars for hazardous waste violations. -
In Kotzebue, the teens learned about edible wild plants, cut and jarred dried, black seal meat in oil, and helped build drying racks for hanging fish. -
Dozens of searchers are looking for 30-year-old Brandon Sheldon on the Kobuk River north of Noorvik after Monday's capsize, troopers said.
