While arming Village Public Safety Officers became legal in Alaska in 2014, none had carried a firearm on the job since 2015. That changed when the Northwest Arctic Borough decided to arm one of ...

Every village in the Northwest Arctic Borough has signed up to the CUAP, except for one. The village of Noatak, about 55 miles north of Kotzebue, has yet to opt in to the program.

For months, the Northwest Arctic Borough hasn’t had any Village Public Safety Officers in any of their 10 village communities — home to over 4,000 people — and those vacancies have left ...

In Northwest Arctic Borough School District, 7% of elementary students tested at or above the proficient level for reading, and 7% tested at or above that level for math.

Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Northwest Arctic Borough, an area which may be larger than Northwest Arctic Borough itself.

ANCHORAGE — Records show Alaska’s Northwest Arctic Borough spent about $115,000 for the Borough Assembly to attend a five-day trip to Seattle ...

Mar. 5—Under a newly announced federal grant, every household in the Northwest Arctic Borough would receive a heat pump to alleviate the cost of energy, and every village in the region would ...

Santa’s sleigh has many wildly varying depictions in popular culture, but few are likely as utilitarian as a Lockheed-Martin KC-130J. Nevertheless, that’s what a group of Santas carrying out ...

While arming Village Public Safety Officers became legal in Alaska in 2014, none had carried a firearm on the job since 2015. That changed when the Northwest Arctic Borough decided to arm one of ...

May 26—For the first time in nearly a decade, a Village Public Safety Officer has started carrying a firearm on the job in rural Alaska. The Northwest Arctic Borough armed one of its VPSOs in ...