Nuiqsut News

The Arctic coast village of Point Lay, long denied a subsistence whaling quota and once all but abandoned, is poised to hold its first Nalukataq blanket toss feast in 72 years to celebrate the landing of a spring bowhead.

Initial results from a Nuiqsut formation well at the Pioneer Natural Resources Oooguruk project are encouraging.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas, will be holding public meetings in the Beaufort Sea area to take public testimony on the Proposed Beaufort Sea Areawide Oil and Gas Lease Sale Preliminary Finding of the Director.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas, will be holding public meetings in the Beaufort Sea area to take public testimony on the Proposed Beaufort Sea Areawide Oil and Gas Lease Sale Preliminary Finding of the Director.

Reporting from Nuiqsut, Alaska -- The year the oil companies seriously began exploring the icy waters off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- where Nuiqsut whalers have hunted for as long as men have wandered on dark waters -- the villagers lost two bowhead.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas, gives notice that it has issued the Preliminary Best Interest Finding and ACMP Consistency Analysis for the Proposed Beaufort Sea Areawide Oil and Gas Lease Sale 2009.

He hopes to get to Barrow eventually. He posed for a photo and gave a thumbs up sign.

Wainwright, Alaska. "We'll have to give you an Eskimo name if you like our food!" Kenneth "Kenny" Tagarook teased as he sliced another piece of frozen raw caribou meat for me with his ulu - a hand-sized, flat ...

Wainwright, Alaska. Rebecca "Ricky" Ekak, a tenth grader at Alak High School in Wainwright, implored her teacher, "Please, can we learn more about this? What they said went into me." Ricky and her classmates ...