City Manager Tessa Baldwin says she doesn’t believe Kotzebue has seen this much snow in decades.
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Declining sea ice in Kotzebue Sound is shortening subsistence hunt for seals, study finds
Seal meat makes up a good portion of what’s in subsistence hunters’ freezers in Kotzebue. But the sea ice the seals haul out on is diminishing, and new research shows that’s shortening the window to hunt seals.
Alaska Federation of Natives postpones convention until December, citing COVID-19 spread
The three-day event had been scheduled for Oct. 21-23 in Anchorage.
Kotzebue greets rare polar bear visitor with excitement, caution
Polar bear sightings in Kotzebue aren’t without precedent. The world’s largest documented polar bear was found in Kotzebue in the 60s, weighing more than 2,200 pounds and standing more than 11 feet high.
These Minnesotans were having a great canoe trip with their toddler in Northwest Alaska. Then the rains came.
As Kotzebue had its wettest month on record, a small group from Minnesota floated the Noatak River in a canoe, with a toddler.
July was Kotzebue’s wettest month on record
The record was driven in part by a heavy rainstorm that set Kotzebue’s single-day precipitation record.