The Department of the Interior will begin selling oil and gas leases this winter. It also announced plans to build a road in ...

Research biologists pause among the wetlands of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, with the Brooks Range in the background. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS) The board of the state-owned ...

Northwest Alaska residents can upgrade smoke alarms in their homes this summer. Northwest Arctic Borough will distribute and install lithium-powered 10-year sealed smoke alarms in every village ...

The Canning River, which flows on the western edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge into the Beaufort Sea, is seen from the air on Aug. 23, 2015. The coastal plain of the refuge, through which ...

Opening Shot: A woman faces the camera and says, “When people ask me where I’m from, I say, ‘Think of the furthest place north you’ve ever been.'” The Gist: Siaja (Anna Lamb) is an Inuk woman who ...

Utqiagvik saw its last sunrise Saturday before the polar night began. The sun will rise again in the northernmost city of the U.S. in 65 days, on Jan. 23. The sun just set in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. It ...

"Russia's Ministry for Development of the Far East and Arctic has put the berth in Lavrentiya village on the list of the transport logistics infrastructure's backbone facilities to serve the Northern ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Power was restored Wednesday to most of the homes in Kaktovik after the Alaska Air National Guard delivered technicians and equipment to the village, thrown into a deep freeze ...

Arctic Village's Clifford David, a junior, is a 2012 Rural Alaskan Student of Mathematical Excellence, according to the Alaska Council of Teachers of Mathematics. "Clifford distinguished himself in ...

The plans are not just to clean Khatanga from man-made waste, but, literally, to revive the village that used to be a prosperous place: to protect the coast from collapses, to develop the scientific ...

“I’m just waiting to start hearing methane explosions like they do in Russia,” says Bethel, Alaska, City Council Member Mark Springer. Until recently he and his wife would pick summer berries on a ...