Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered something unusual in the Arctic Ocean off northern Alaska: a ...

The ArcticCam gives the real-time view from the second floor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner building in Fairbanks, Alaska. The camera is looking south toward the Chena River and downtown Fairbanks.

Oil companies could buy oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but with new restrictions, under a plan released ...

The polling place in the tiny Arctic village of Kaktovik never opened when Alaska had its primary election this summer ...

We, Alaskan Indigenous peoples who have lived along the Arctic Ocean coast of Alaska since time immemorial, respectfully ask President Joseph Biden to designate a U.S. Arctic Ocean marine national ...

Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge remains one of America’s most pristine places. This fall’s election could decide whether the U.S. drills for oil there.

a former University of Alaska marine sciences professor, recently joined forces with the nonprofit Sovereign Iñupiat for a ...

The nation’s first Arctic deep-water port in Nome, Alaska, will have to wait, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers halting procurement of the $662-million project's first phase due to the ...

Three Alaska women have been selected as Fulbright Arctic Initiative scholars, and although they have very different career paths, they share the common goal of a healthy, secure Arctic where the ...

a whaling captain in the tiny Alaska Native village of Kaktovik, on an island in the Arctic Ocean just off the state’s northern coast, pinned a flyer to the blue, ribbon-lined bulletin board in ...

Kaktovik is 670 miles (1,078 km) north of Anchorage, on Barter Island, between the Arctic Ocean and Alaska's North Slope, an area of vast, treeless tundra nearly the size of Oregon. The ...