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.
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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.
Kotzebue couple charged with assaulting and starving children in their care
Court documents detail the physical assault of four different children occurring between 2015 and 2019.
Man says bear attacked him, harassed him for a week at mining camp outside Nome
Officials say the Kodiak-based helicopter crew was flying from Kotzebue to Nome when they saw an SOS sign on top of a shack near a remote mining camp.
Babies in regalia: Kotzebue marks return of in-person beauty pageants
Cloudy skies and a light drizzle didn’t dampen the spirits of residents of Kotzebue on the Fourth of July as hundreds gathered across town to celebrate.