Alaska – the northernmost city in the United States – was missing. No, Barrow hadn’t literally been vanquished by the pounding waves of the Arctic Sea (although it does sit precipitously close).

Associated Press No roads lead to Barrow, Alaska. To reach America’s northernmost city (pop. 4,500), you must fly or, sea ice permitting, take a ship. Barrow’s residents use cars or four-wheel ...

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 ...

IT IS whaling season in Utqiagvik, the newly official—as well as ancient indigenous—name for Barrow, Alaska’s ... But out on the jumbled sea ice that stretches from town to the horizon ...

BARROW, Alaska — Standing on the sidelines ... Barrow's shoreline nine months a year has retreated a mile or so out to sea, where it is barely visible on the horizon. Soon, when the winds ...

BARROW, Alaska — Three children whiz by on a snowmobile ... hunters towed in from the pewter-colored waters of the Chukchi Sea. Slabs of blubber cover front yards all over town, and Tegoseak ...

BARROW, ALASKA — About 23,600 square miles of Arctic sea ice melted every day in May, a record-high amount. That is good news for one group: bowhead whales, the Arctic’s largest marine mammal.

Oil company ConocoPhillips wants to drill around 200 wells on Alaska's North Slope near the Native village of Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow ... to rising sea levels. "Biden will be ...