According to the new study, sheefish habitat could be expanding. “The key findings are that the fish distribution seems to be broader now, north and south of Kotzebue Sound than it was in the ...

I am a commercial and subsistence fisherman who lives on the shores of Kobuk Lake (Hotham Inlet) 25 miles from Kotzebue.

Eight feet of ice, freezing temps, and 40-pound sheefish make for an arctic adventure. Here's what it's like ice fishing for sheefish.

“It is a great relief to have the Ambler Road project removed from the NDAA,” said Lewis Pagel, owner of Arctic Fishing Adventures in Kotzebue, Alaska, who guides out-of-state anglers looking ...

Oct. 29—The number of Kotzebue houses that were damaged in last week's fall storm climbed as several local and state agencies continued to assist residents and the extent of the destruction ...

KOTZEBUE, Alaska – With winter freeze-up just around the corner, Kotzebue residents and responders from across Alaska are racing against time to clean u ...

Wood-Griepentrog is Inupiaq and has commercially fished for chum salmon in Kotzebue sound going on eight seasons. He said he’s concerned about the road interrupting caribou and bird migration and ...

“It will lead to degradation of the world’s foremost sheefish fishery in the Kobuk River, harm Kobuk River chum salmon stocks that contribute to the Kotzebue Sound commercial fishery, and disrupt the ...

Jun. 20—Two Kotzebue residents face murder charges in the stabbing death last week of a 33-year-old man in the Northwest Alaska city, police say. The Kotzebue Police Department on Tuesday said ...

Although sheefish are abundant now, they could be threatened by warming Arctic temperatures, according to Bill Carter, a fish biologist for the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, based in Kotzebue.