Northwest Arctic Ice Road Will Not Open This Year
![The edge of Kobuk Lake (Hotham Inlet) and the Baldwin Peninsula (Photo: Gabe Colombo, KNOM)](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_7458-1200x900.jpg)
Sea ice has been too thin this year to make it safe to construct the ice road, which normally runs from Kotzebue to Noorvik and Kiana.
Missing Kotzebue Man Successfully Rescued
![Kotzebue, Alaska, from the air](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Kotzebue-Jenn-Ruckel-e1513711625730-1200x783.jpg)
Search teams located 33-year-old Floyd Reed around four hours after the initial report. He was uninjured.