In 1931, the SS Baychimo, a cargo ship owned by the Hudson Bay Company, became trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Despite efforts to free her, she vanished into the frozen Arctic sea, but ...

In 1968, a Minnesota insurance salesman named Ralph Plaisted was sitting in a bar, talking to a friend about snowmobiles. His friend said that if snowmobiles were so great, he should be able to ride ...

But as sea ice melts, the dark ocean absorbs that heat ... Josiah Olemaun, a young Inupiat whaler in Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska, takes a breather while stacking whale meat in his family ...

Top Trump administration officials on Tuesday headlined an energy conference led by the state’s Republican governor.

Three Trump Cabinet members have toured a key point of operations at a prolific oil field near the Arctic Ocean in Alaska.

BARROW, Alaska — Residents of the northernmost community in the United States saw their first sunset in almost three months. The sun went down at 1:59 a.m. on Tuesday for the first time since ...

Entire research institutes that often work with universities, such as the Alaska Ocean Observing System that provides critical weather data and other services, face an existential threat in the ...

The Trump administration is sending three Cabinet members to Alaska this week as it pursues oil drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reinvigorating a natural gas project that’s ...