Barrow News

Julienne Stroeve of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and her research team measure temperatures and other variables at the snow/ice interface in Elson Lagoon in Barrow, Alaska , in March 2006.

The Inuit Circumpolar Council has appointed James Stotts as its new chairman, signalling a change in leadership in the international Inuit organization.

Juneau Superintendent Peggy Cowan accepted a job heading up the North Slope Borough School District, she confirmed Thursday.

I spent this past week with a couple of my heroes. Both are Alaska women who make it clear that being an Alaska woman means being independent, strong, inquisitive and intellectually restless until the day you die.

The Arctic coast village of Point Lay, long denied a subsistence whaling quota and once all but abandoned, is poised to hold its first Nalukataq blanket toss feast in 72 years to celebrate the landing of a spring bowhead.

The cutter-rigged sailboat Ocean Watch arrived Tuesday on the first leg of its 13-month, 24,000 nautical mile voyage, called Around the Americas.

Following the recent news of Al Roker joining the network for his own weekday morning program debuting July 20, The Weather Channel announces additional series, specials and programming planned throughout the 2009-2010 television season.

In an early afternoon June breeze, the American flag flopped slowly back and forth atop the pole outside the Herald office as it has done countless times before.

A steel cutter-rigged sailboat on a one-of-kind mission to raise ocean awareness and spread environmental activism across two continents is coming to Juneau for its first stop Tuesday.

A plan by Alaska fishery "overseers" aims to put the brakes on commercial fishing in the Arctic until more is known about the region's fish stocks and marine environment.

Ken Kwapis is in final negotiations to direct "Everybody Loves Whales," a family film with an environmental theme.

Environmental activists often cite a oesciencea when arguing for far-reaching and costly responses to global warming.

BARROW, Alaska- The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, a 420 ft. icebreaker homeported in Seattle, Wash., breaks ice in support of scientific research in the Arctic Ocean.

North Slope police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that took place over the weekend in Barrow.

Alaska's upcoming vacancy on the state Supreme Court has drawn 25 applicants, including 10 Superior Court judges.

As we head toward the summer solstice, you've probably noticed the sun is setting pretty late these days.

In keeping with the warm and beautiful weather we're having, I think today's column will be about something positive.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, standing next to her daughter Piper, left, and holding her son Trig, speaks at a whaling festival in Barrow, Alaska, on June 30.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas, will be holding public meetings in the Beaufort Sea area to take public testimony on the Proposed Beaufort Sea Areawide Oil and Gas Lease Sale Preliminary Finding of the Director.

This Monday, May 22, 2006 file photo provided by Mary Sage shows a polar bear near Barrow, Alaska.