Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Daylight will then gradually increase each day until the sun remains in the sky for 24 hours a day for roughly two months, in what is known as the midnight sun, during the summer months.

Russian and German oil tankers are already beginning to ply those waters in the summer months ... and an air station in Point Barrow, Alaska, with at least three helicopters.

Barrow never traveled to Alaska. Residents voted to change the ... A multi-sport star who won two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics, played Major League Baseball, earned a spot on the ...

The White House quietly nominated Navajo citizen William “Billy” Kirkland as assistant secretary of the Interior, colloquially referred to as the assistant secretary of Indian affairs, on Feb. 3. The ...

So the entire landscape is frozen for most of the year, and only a thin layer of soil thaws every summer. So this ... Up until recently, it was named Barrow. So this is the northernmost point in ...

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...

Registration for the camps will open on March 1 and close on May 16. All camps will be held at the James H. Barrow Biological ...

Analysis of almost a century of Alaska fire weather data shows that many of Alaska’s most extreme wildfire seasons started with an early thaw.

Three teams hit the trail earlier this month for a reenactment of the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, a legendary effort that is credited with saving the town from diphtheria.