Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Utqiaġvik, Alaska, is the northernmost town in the US, overlooking the Arctic Ocean. Polar night begins this week, plunging the ...

The northernmost community in the U.S. has voted to officially restore its traditional Inupiaq name. Barrow, Alaska, Changes Its Name Back To Its Original 'Utqiagvik' The northernmost community in the ...

Editors' note: We asked 14 of Alaska's best writers spread across the state — from Tenakee Springs to Dutch Harbor to Utqiagvik — to grapple with a question we all face in our lives: Why do I live ...

When Myron McCumber talks about life in Alaska, he talks in terms of "the lower 48," a saying used by locals to describe the continental US. "Alaskans tend to be pretty independent thinkers," he told ...