Kaktovik News

LOCATION: On the north shore of Barter Island, between the Okpilak and Jago rivers on the Beaufort Sea coast, within the 19.6 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

At the Barrow Distribution Centre business is brisk, and so it should be as the only place for 200 miles where you can get alcohol.

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As the Arctic summer comes to an end, scientists have determined that the sea ice has shrunk to the second smallest size on record, continuing the disturbing trend associated with a warming planet.

Need a jolt? Caffeine is popping up in more and more places. Richard Holschen, a police officer in Kaktovik, Alaska, couldn't tote around coffee in the subzero temperatures above the Arctic Circle, so he ...

The recent flooding in Alaska's interior caused estimated damages of least $10 million.

Somewhere between the fruit juice and cold medicine aisles in the Airport Way Fred Meyer store, I bumped into an old acquaintance the other day.

The Coast Guard says the body of a 13-year-old boy who drowned in the Beaufort Sea while trying to save his father has been recovered.

The Coast Guard says a man was found dead and another is missing in the Beaufort Sea.

WASHINGTON - House Republican Leader John Boehner called Thursday for Democrats to allow a vote on a GOP-crafted energy bill that would, among other things, open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to ...

The Wednesday afternoon call from Deadhorse, Alaska, would not have been ironic if the issue being bandied about was not so lively.

Rich, Looks like McCain may not have specifically been to ANWR, but he's probably been close enough.

“You tell me what's going to happen when that 500 percent increase happens. It's going to be devastating and AELP is not going to get paid”

Gov. Sarah Palin's disaster policy cabinet will not be recommending state disaster status for Juneau after avalanches severed its source of low-cost hydropower. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer