As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...
When two schoolteachers living in Point Lay, Alaska, decided to try heading home in a blizzard, they nearly loose their way ...
Review of 'Gift of the Whale: The Inupiat Bowhead Hunt, A Sacred Tradition' It's no stretch to say they're more American than apple pie because they link us all together Doctors and patients swear ...
UIC provides warm storage space to local retailers, enabling delivery of 75,000 pounds of additional food supplies ahead of ...
Shutterstock Extraordinary is a regular Tuesday here. Utqiagvik in Alaska is America’s North Pole. We’re talking midnight sun ...
Utqiaġvik’s village corporation is donating storage space for extra food stocked for a surge of winter visitors.
The students visited the community’s public works facility, landfills and the home of a whaling captain. “It’s covered in snow for a majority of the year, but then once the snow starts to melt and the ...
A 16-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with two counts each of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the late Sunday shooting in Point Hope, a remote Inupiat whaling community on ...
After the whale is hunted, traditional songs are played as the women butcher and meat is cooked. Like the buffalo for the Plains tribes, the Inupiat use every part of the whale, from meat to blood.