City of Barrow will change name to Utqiagvik and is also seeking to use the Iñupiat word for stop on its traffic signs Residents of the northernmost community in the US have voted to change their city ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute has published a book of old, rare and priceless photographs of Inupiat life in the early twentieth century made by an Inupiat photographer and teacher. The book, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doreen Leavitt of the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope told House members during the Nov. 29 hearing. (Photo/Hearing ...

What's left for the journalist who burns for the great adventure? Is there anything out there for the modern-day Henry Stanley, who longs to go beyond the edge of the map? The poles? They make ...

Voice of the Arctic Iñupiat is a backer of the controversial Willow oil drilling project The administration of Alaska’s Republican governor, Mike Dunleavy, awarded at least $1m in state funds to a ...

As the first snows coat Alaska, families are bracing for a long and difficult winter in the midst of historically high energy prices. Across the Lower 48, many will face similar hardships as heating ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Residents in the nation’s northernmost community have voted to change the name of the Alaska town to its traditional Inupiat Eskimo name. A slight majority of voters in the ...

In 2023, when Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Iñupiaq, was mayor of Nuiqsut, a federally recognized village of 500 residents on Alaska’s North Slope Borough, a gas leak from a nearby oil operation left her ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska voters in the nation's northernmost town won't get a chance at the polls after all to repeal the community's new Inupiat Eskimo name after local officials shot down the ...

NUIQSUT, Alaska — Though the weather outside was frightful, schoolchildren in the northern Alaska Inupiat community of Nuiqsut were so delighted for a visit by Santa that they braved wind chills of 25 ...