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Newtok’s school building has no electricity and the problem can’t be fixed. Nine miles away in Mertarvik, where Newtok residents are working to relocate, the makeshift school also doesn’t have power.
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An annual test of Alaska’s tsunami warning system is scheduled for Wednesday, March 27 at about 10:20 a.m. It will broadcast over radio and television stations around the state.
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Twenty-year-old Grant Hill set fire to a residence with two people inside, killing the homeowner, 43-year-old Victor Smith, according to troopers.
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The Alaska Department of Public Safety’s commissioner, James Cockrell, said that they plan to fill the role in late spring or early summer.
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North Slope Borough Mayor Josiah Patkotak said that multiple people were dead after the incident on Feb. 25, with a suspect in custody.
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The work of maintaining the road has been constant amid recent warm weather and intermittent snow storms.
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Mike Williams Sr. aims to make Western Alaska’s food security and climate change threats top issues at the federal level.
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The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said that the leading edge of the spill is about 150 feet from the Kwigillingok River. Cleanup efforts have been hampered by snow and a lack of heavy equipment in the village.
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Troopers say 59-year-old Roy Michael Jr. was found deceased in an open field somewhere between Akiachak and Kwethluk on the morning of Feb. 21.
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The incident at the Kwethluk Inc. building occurred on the evening of Jan. 28 and also resulted in thousand of dollars in damages, according to troopers.
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41-year-old Spokane resident Brian Kevin Powell was sentenced to 20 years in prison, 15 years of supervised release and ordered to pay more than $35,000 in restitution.
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The City of Aniak is still unable to determine the total amount of fuel that leaked from a privately owned fuel truck parked on a property near the airport runway.