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 ...

Alaska State Troopers identified the man fatally shot by two North Slope Borough police officers in Utqiagvik last weekend as ...

The man, who has not been identified, “emerged with a knife” from behind a barricaded door and was shot by two officers, ...

State prosecutors in Utqiagvik have charged a North Slope Borough employee with allegedly crashing a fuel truck while drunk.

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 ...

Timelapse footage released by the National Weather Service (NWS) shows the sun set at 1:48 am before it rose above the horizon at 2:57 am. The sun won't set again for 84 days until August 2.

Most people expect nightfall to arrive at some point in the day. In one remote corner of Alaska, that simply stops happening for weeks. Residents in U.

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 ...