Sunset on Tuesday will mark the final appearance of the sun over Utqiagvik, Alaska, in 2025 as the town enters "polar night," a stretch of roughly 65 days of darkness. The small town, formerly known ...

It's called Polar Night, and it's a phenomenon that happens each year in northern Alaska. The town of Utqiaġvik is the northernmost city in the United States. Located roughly 725 miles northwest of ...

This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. In the remote Arctic town of Kotzebue, Alaska, some residents ...

Growing political tensions, a need for partnerships and the importance of including Indigenous leaders in policy decisions were some of the themes at the Arctic Encounter Summit in Anchorage last week ...

The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen its claim to this newly contested region. The Inuit of the far north helped ...

NEW ORLEANS — Record-setting temperatures and rainfall in the Arctic over the past year sped up the melting of permafrost and washed toxic minerals into more than 200 rivers across northern Alaska, ...