Northwest

All three of the schools in Kotzebue, and three Northwest Arctic village schools, will need to conduct school remotely.

Right now, according to NPD’s Evidence Custodian Paul Kosto, the state lab is taking about a year to process kits.

The village tribal president says the individual and their family are in medical isolation, and the local school will be entirely remote.

“You’re going into the region to the land where people own,” said assembly member Walter Sampson. “And we expect companies to make sure that they take their word to make sure that regional employees are the number one in this region to be hired.”

Searchers go out every day to look for Okpealuk, and the community held a prayer vigil Sept. 12th at Old St. Joseph’s park.

Maniilaq officials say six of the residents are showing symptoms of the virus, and all of them are medically isolated in Buckland.

Red Dog suspended outbound travel from the mine to regional communities on Sept. 16.

Law enforcement began searching for Florence Okpealuk last week, and a community-wide search began Saturday. Some women from Nome and Teller don’t think that response was fast enough.

Red Dog’s problems show how climate change poses a challenge to the economy of Arctic Alaska, which is warming at triple the rate of the global average.

The altercation interrupted fishing for several boats, and some fishing industry players say they’re worried about continuing impacts from the exercises.