Here, the sun disappears for approximately 65 straight days during the polar night, plunging the town into total darkness. Then, in a dramatic reversal, it does not set for more than two months in ...

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal that ocean ...

The 2025 high school football season will be getting underway in less than six weeks, which means it’s officially preview season. Rivals is breaking down the nation’s top teams from coast-to-coast, ...

A big drop in crude prices year over year leaves Alaska, reliant on oil for revenue, at the bottom of CNBC’s annual Top States for Business rankings.

Kaktovik, Alaska, resident thanks president for blocking environmental groups while Energy Secretary Chris Wright highlights untapped potential.

Oil companies there contribute some $250 million a year to the North Slope Borough. “Barrow is ground zero for climate-change science,” Itta said.

A preliminary report regarding a deadly helicopter crash in Alaska indicated that the aircraft ceased transmitting status updates after passing the shoreline of an Arctic lake.

No survivors were found after a helicopter carrying a pilot and three state workers crashed in a shallow lake in Alaska’s North Slope region, officials said Friday. The helicopter had been ...

Economy February 28, 2023 Why More Alaskans Aren’t Fighting a Huge Potential Oil Project on the North Slope Alaska residents are living in an impossible situation: The state depends on oil to ...

Near Point Barrow in northern Alaska, natural gas has accumulated in Jurassic-aged sandstone reservoirs that lie along the western and eastern margins of a buried, ancient meteorite impact crater, ...

"Barrow" is everywhere while walking around town: on the fire trucks, in the name of the high school, the local utility company, on the North Slope Borough’s official logo. But the name ...