Anaktuvuk Pass News

The oil price spike has brought the best of times and worst of times in Alaska.

In the state's urban metropolis, a retail frenzy is under way as merchants compete for the extra $3,269 that landed on Sept. 12 in residents' bank accounts. The money is from the normal annual dividend paid by the Alaska Permanent Fund - a record $2,069 payout this year to nearly every Alaska man, woman, and child - plus an extra one-time $1,200 payment, made possible from huge state budget surpluses, that was championed by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory Archives "Cleaning and Sterilization of Bunny Boots." "Comparative Sweat Rates of Eskimos and Caucasians Under Controlled Conditions." These are some of the studies completed by ...

On these clear, blue, autumn mornings, when golden leaves flutter to the ground, the musk of highbush cranberries crinkles your nose and puddles glass over with a thin sheen of ice, a person may wonder what ...

Grizzly bear tracks are awe-inspiring. NPS photo. On August 28, an adolescent grizzly bear mauled a woman hiker at her campsite in Alaska's Gates of the Arctic National Park .

A bear mauling near the Anaktuvuk Pass sends a woman to the hospital with multiple injuries.

A woman is recovering from injuries suffered today in a grizzly bear mauling in the Gates of the Arctic National Park.

Last Friday, after spending five days blissfully disconnected from any contact with the outside world besides an archaic GPS device, I stumbled into the Camp Kitchen in Anaktuvuk Pass, looking for a hot meal.

A front-page story Thursday on soaring prices in rural Alaska erred in making reference to $10 per gallon gas in Barrow.

' The last remaining Nunamiut Inupiat Eskimo community settled Anaktuvuk Pass just 60 years ago, trading in nomadic life for village life in a valley tucked 2,200 feet up in the central Brooks Range.

Published: May 25th, 2008 02:34 AM Last Modified: May 25th, 2008 03:56 AM POPULATION: 299 LOCATION: At 2,200 feet elevation on the divide between the Anaktuvuk and John rivers in the central Brooks Range.

Anaktuvuk Pass , Anaktuvuk, Alaska, March 19, 2008 Five flights are scheduled into Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, today, the last remaining outpost of the once nomadic Nunamiut Eskimos who just 60 years ago followed ...