NOORVIK - One down, more than 309 million to go. U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves on Monday began the 2010 count of the nation's residents in a village in Alaska's arctic hinterlands. The first person tallied...

...Bureau workers will begin their count of residents living in communities off the road systems. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves has said he will personally fly to Noorvik, 45 miles east of Kotzebue, to get the national census count under way...

...huge reception of traditional dancing and a feast of caribou, moose and other subsistence foods. Bureau Director Robert Groves is scheduled to count the first household in Noorvik at 1 p.m. Monday, after arriving by charter plane at the village...

...Census Bureau says Anchorage is lagging behind the rest of the country in mailing back census forms. Bureau Director Robert Groves said in a news release Tuesday that Anchorage has one of the lowest rates of mail participation at 41 percent, significantly...