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Environmental watchdogs are raising alarms over Pebble and other projects. But is anyone listening?
A Pebble Mine foe found a video she thought would make headlines. It didn't.
Pilot dead, passenger survives after North Slope charter plane crash
The pilot of a charter plane is dead after crashing near Teshekpuk Lake southeast of Utqiagvik Thursday night.
Using space-based radar, researchers develop new method for measuring Arctic lake methane emissions
Methane, which can trap 30 times more heat than carbon dioxide and contribute to global warming, has been hard to study in the Arctic.
After a warmer than normal April, Utqiagvik sees first record low temperature in over a decade
On Wednesday morning, temperatures in the North Slope hub community of Utqiagvik reached 20 degrees below zero, a record low for April 29th.
‘A lot of strange haircuts’: Alaskans are getting shaggy, creative and desperate
Many Alaskans have lowered their standards for their haircuts or gotten creative during the state-mandated closure of hair salons.
North Slope Borough backs out of deal with Ravn, reaffirms right to commandeer assets in emergency
The borough said that negotiations with Ravn were "not fruitful" and that it would rescind itself from an agreement in principle to pay the company $110,000 per month to rent its hangar in Utqiagvik.
Alaska’s largest private employer, ASRC, cuts jobs after coronavirus causes oil price collapse
Alaska’s largest private-sector employer, Arctic Slope Regional Corp., has laid off employees and cut charitable giving due to the collapse in oil prices and the economic shutdown caused by the global coronavirus pandemic.
North Slope Borough ‘commandeers’ Ravn’s North Slope assets
The North Slope Borough's Emergency Order states that the move is necessary to continue essential air service to the borough's eight communities after Ravn halted all its operations on Sunday.
Ravn to end all service, layoff all staff and file for bankruptcy
The decision comes after several other progressive cuts to service around the state.
To curb coronavirus spread, North Slope Borough suspends travel into its communities
As coronavirus spreads across the state, the North Slope Borough has suspended air, sea and land entry into any of the borough’s eight village communities.
Alaska’s chief justice shuts down all new jury trials
Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice Joel Bolger on Sunday ordered that all new jury trials be suspended, building on a directive last week that had led to the suspension of trials in half of the state's judicial districts out of concern over the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Magistrates strive for justice in rural, urban Alaska courts
Alaska's legal system can seem complex and confusing from the outside looking in. The purpose of today's show is to make one sliver of...
Calista, Doyon deny rumors they are poised to exit AFN
Calista Corporation has reaffirmed its Alaska Federation of Natives membership in response to a caller on a Feb. 28 KYUK talk show who claimed that Calista had pulled out of the organization.
Kaktovik mourns burned school; workers were thawing pipes before the blaze
The North Slope community's mayor says the school is a "total loss."
North Slope elder Ugiaqtaq Wesley Aiken remembered for ‘life of hard work’
Ugiaqtaq Wesley Aiken was born in 1926 in the village, long before the region was driven by oil development.
These were our biggest and most popular stories of 2019
Wildfires, plane crashes, an incredible fraud scheme, the sale of a major oil company and a mysterious disappearance in Southeast Alaska are just some of the stories that found the largest audiences online in 2019.
Goldman Sachs becomes first major U.S. bank to rule out funding for Arctic oil
Other companies that restrict financing for Arctic drilling include Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC.
Longstanding tensions underlie Arctic Slope Regional Corporation’s withdrawal from AFN
Long before Arctic Slope Regional Corp. announced its withdrawal from the Alaska Federation of Natives last week, there were signs of a schism.
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.