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Mission Statement

"The Northwest Arctic Borough will work aggressively to improve the quality of life for all residents."

What's Happening In Your Community?

Ambler    Buckland    Candle    Deering    Kiana    Kivalina    Kobuk    Kotzebue    Noatak  

Noorvik    Selawik    Shungnak

 

2008 Borough Assembly Petition Notice
CLICK HERE

Supplemental Election Public Notice

Lowell Sage, Enoch Adams, Senator Murkowski, Eugene Monroe and Mayor Siikauraq Whiting meet in Washington DC in April, 2008

Dean Terencio, DSO-PE USCG Auxiliary, Mayor Siikauraq Whiting and RADM Brooks, USCG.  The US Coast Guard gave a presentation at the Borough in March, 2008


March 24, 2008

Rep. and Mrs. Don Young visit NWAB Mayor, Assembly President and staff.


 

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The Northwest Arctic Borough utilizes Inupiaq Font! Download here for easier viewing.

Help keep our Borough Clean!

Borough residents and visitors are encouraged to help keep our community and environment clean. Please remember to "pack out what you pack in". We are blessed to live in the arctic and we share in the responsibility in cleaning up after ourselves both in our community and out in the country.

A Village Teleconference will be held on the last Wednesday of each month (subject to scheduling changes). The Borough Mayor and her staff would like to hear your ideas, comments, concerns, news and information.
The Northwest Arctic Borough is committed to increasing communications between borough residents, IRA/City offices and other borough entities. Send us your pictures, announcements, news and information by contacting  Lori Hanna, Communications Coordinator/Assistant to the Mayor @ Extension 115, fax (907)  442-2930 or email.

Alaska State Legislature Teleconference Scheduling & Related Links

Kotzebue Legislative Information Office located @ 373 2nd Street aka Pillautuq Centre, Kotzebue

Phone: (907) 442-3880    Fax:  (907) 442-3022

To see Buckland flooding photos, click the Buckland link above.


Regional Inupiaq Days 2008

"Love for Children"

Photo Gallery

 

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Chukchi Consortium Library

Art Contest Winner is
Kevin Sutton

 

 

Emergency Operations Plan

located at the Public Services Local Emergency Planning Committee page

Borough Code Revision-Title 9

For information on the Revised Title 9 of the Borough Code visit the Planning Department page

Economic Development FY08 Workplan is now on-line! Visit the EDC page

Suliafich Art Center

View art work currently on display

The Borough art center has been renamed the Suliafich Art Center and has moved to 205 on 3rd Avenue (across from the 41 unit near the airport)

Phone 907.442.2990

Toll Free 866.553.2990

Pictures of grand May 29, 2007Opening

Kiana, Kivalina & Shungnak Meeting Summary and Pictures have moved to the Mayor's Page

We look forward to meeting all borough residents. Please attend our public meetings and listen to what we are doing, voice your ideas and concerns and we look forward to working with you.

 Mayor Siikauraq and staff will be traveling to all borough villages...dates, times and places posted as they become available.

Global Warming News from Alaska
March 30, 2007
Reporting from The Front Line

Climate Change Information

Nine Things You Can Do To Help Reduce Energy Use & In Turn Reduce Climate Change/Global Warming.

New Borough Emergency/Disaster Phone Numbers:

Borough Fire Chief: 

907-442-6900

Public Services Director: 

 907-442-6901


Northwest Arctic Borough Position Openings

Open until filled

Community Planner and Permit Specialist

Youth Development Specialist

Economic Development Commission Specialist

Employment Application

 Alaska Technical Center

2007-2008 Training Programs

Contact ATC 907.442.3373

Chukchi Community College

Spring 2008 Course Offerings

Registrations begins July 28

Classes start September 2

For more information call 907.442.3400  1.800.478.3402

for Mary Ext 114 or Minnie Ext 115

 The Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, or SLiCA, is an international joint effort of research and indigenous people to measure and understand living conditions in the Arctic. This website is intended to promote the use and understanding of SLiCA data.

 June 2007 SLiCA Newsletter

The Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission met in Juneau on Jan. 24, 2007. Denali Commission Co-Chair George J. Cannelos testimony outlines the commission's recommendations on how government should maximize resources & best focus on responding to climate change.


F
ormed in June 1986, the Northwest Arctic Borough is a home rule borough and is the local political subdivision of the State of Alaska. The borough has an eleven-member assembly, a seven member planning commission and a seventeen member staff.

The Northwest Arctic Borough is located in Northwest Alaska thirty-three miles north of the Arctic Circle. The Borough encompasses approximately 36,000 square miles and is the second largest borough in Alaska. The Borough has a population of approximately 7,300 and consists of 11 villages with Kotzebue serving as the regional hub. The Red Dog Mine, the world's largest lead and zinc mine, is also within the boundaries of the Northwest Arctic Borough. The Borough is accessible by air, land, and sea. There are no roads connecting the villages.

P.O. Box 1110, Kotzebue, Alaska, 99752 - Toll free in Alaska:  (800) 478-1110
Phone:  (907) 442-2500 - Fax:  (907) 442-2930