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Arctic Slope Regional Corporation to leave the Alaska Federation of Natives
ASRC would be the only Alaska-based native corporation to leave the federation if it withdraw's at the end of the year.
Unexpected repairs to Alaska Airlines freighters delay holiday season shipments
While the jets are under repair, Alaska Airlines has had to put a hold on new general and premium cargo orders to the Alaska communities that use the service, including Kotzebue, Ketchikan, Utqiagvik, Nome and Bethel.
Heavy, expensive wind storms projected to hit Northwest Alaska harder in coming decades, study finds
Historically, Arctic communities have had thick layers of sea ice to help buffer those storms, but as the region warms, that protection is disappearing.
After two months hunting amid record warmth, Utqiagvik whalers finally landed a bowhead
Whalers in Alaska’s northernmost town of Utqiaġvik have finally landed their first bowhead of the season, after what some veterans said was an unprecedented absence of the marine mammals amid record-setting air and water temperatures.
In Anaktuvuk Pass, a gardener brings new life to ancient foods with Arctic agriculture
Getting started wasn’t easy. Hopson spent time in Northern California when she was young, working in her grandmother’s garden. But when she applied that knowledge in the Arctic, it failed miserably...at first.
As hunters deal with a warming Arctic, UAF partners with local observers to keep them informed
As climate change disrupts the migration of animals, and the frozen rivers and sea ice hunters travel on becomes less reliable, Alaskans say sharing information is increasingly important.
Mark Begich, frustrated by rural Alaska’s exorbitant prices, is opening a grocery store in Utqiagvik
Begich said his company, Stuaqpak Inc., will offer lower prices and better products, and be more accountable to residents than the North West Company, the publicly traded Canadian corporation that ran the store previously. But Begich’s business is launching an untested model, and it will still face competition.
How a new high-frequency radar system benefits Bering Strait scientists, subsistence hunters
The technology could be used to improve marine and sea ice forecasting, and to track the spread of harmful algal blooms and potentially even toxic spills.
Whalers in Utqiaġvik can’t remember hunting this late without landing a bowhead
Some residents say this is unprecedented for the whale-dependent village that last fall captured nearly 20. Also unprecedented are this year’s temperatures: It was the warmest May through September on record in Utqiagvik.
Alaska News Nightly: Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019
With winter closing in, whalers in Utqiaġvik haven't landed a single bowhead whale. Also: Unalaska residents brace for at least another 10 days with no scheduled air service. For one mom,that means being separated from her kids.
North Slope choir students perform at Disneyland
It was a unique opportunity for the kids to learn about music at a place where music and magic are synonymous.
Bethel limits alcohol, rejects pot restrictions, reopening public debate about addiction
Bethel is likely returning to damp status. Unofficial results from the election earlier this week show Bethel re-entering local option for alcohol sales. Under local option, voters have chosen to make furnishing alcohol to someone under age 21 a felony. In the same election, voters rejected entering marijuana local option and cast ballots for Bethel City Council candidates, favoring the challengers over the incumbents.
Utqiagvik voters overwhelmingly reject soda tax
Early results show voters in the city of Utqiagvik rejecting a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.
8 key takeaways for Alaska in a major new United Nations report on climate change
The United Nations on Wednesday released a major new report on how climate change is affecting the world’s oceans and frozen areas, like glaciers, ice sheets and permafrost. It contains stark warnings on how rising emissions will affect the environments that blanket most of the earth's surface -- and much of Alaska.
Wanted: Unalaska birders and beachcombers to help track seabird mortalities
Thousands of dead seabirds washed up on Alaska's shores this summer, marking the state's fifth straight year of mass die-offs. Now the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey team is training volunteers to monitor the trend.
Nome summit focuses on food sovereignty in Alaska
Members of the Inuit Circumpolar Council discussed topics ranging from wildlife management to fisheries.
Judge: case of slain Mountain Village woman shows how Alaska’s justice system is failing
In a blistering order, a Fairbanks judge has declared a crisis in the state’s courts, saying that turnover among public defenders is delaying criminal trials and denying justice for victims and defendants alike.
With ANWR drilling on its doorstep, an Alaska Native village is poised to profit
It’s still too early to know if petroleum even exists in the refuge in commercially-viable quantities. But if it’s found, Kaktovik’s residents are simultaneously positioned to be among the biggest beneficiaries, and to experience some of the biggest disruptions.
Two worlds that overlap: Richard Glenn sees ANWR drilling as a boon to Inupiaq communities
Richard Glenn is an inconvenient truth for opponents of drilling in the Arctic Refuge. He presents a challenge to the prevalent narrative in D.C., that Native people oppose development in the Arctic.
Remove your rings and get out your card blanket: A table-side view of one of Utqiaġvik’s most animated card games
In Utqiaġvik, snerts is one of the most popular games in town. Die-hard enthusiasts play on a regular basis, and there’s even an annual spring tournament.