The sale of 72,000 acres in leases is nonetheless a step toward extraction in the wilderness home to caribou and polar bears.

Chucky Panitchaiq Hopson II had been whaling for about a month before he landed one this spring. He captains one of the eight boats that worked together to catch the first whale of the season last ...

Utqiagvik, Alaska—known as the land of the “Midnight Sun”—is entering a remarkable stretch of 84 consecutive days without a sunset. Asisauan Toovak, mayor of the town located roughly 320 miles north ...

A small town in Alaska won’t see another sunset for more than 80 days. The sun rose on Saturday, May 9, in Utqiagvik, Alaska, and won’t set again until 2:57 a.m. local time on Aug. 2.The National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Utqiaġvik, Alaska, is the northernmost town in the US, overlooking the Arctic Ocean. Polar night begins this week, plunging the ...

Utqiagvik. That's the name that Barrow will now be identified as. By a margin of six votes, residents of Barrow have voted to change the name of their city back to its Inupiaq name. City council ...

Reporting from anchorage, alaskaReporting from anchorage, alaska — On paper, the new Inupiat Eskimo name of the nation’s northernmost town is now official. But not so fast. The reality is not so ...