Point Hope News

At the age of 65, most veterans might retire -- particularly after service in three wars.

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

The State of Alaska has moved to intervene in a federal court case in which the Native Village of Point Hope seeks to rescind dozens of leases issued by the federal government under an off-shore oil and gas lease sale conducted for federal waters in the Chukchi Sea.

In 1958, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had a bunch of spare nuclear devices.

Gov. Sarah Palin has made the following appointments to business-related state boards: Alaska Workforce Investment Board -- Martin T. Anderson Jr.

Royal Dutch Shell's Alaska manager said the company still intends to develop a major new source of production in the Arctic waters off the Alaskan coast despite last week's decision from an appeals court in Washington, D.C. that ruled such activity to be illegal.

A program to expand oil and gas drilling off the coast of the state of Alaska was canceled Friday by a U.S. appeals court that ruled the Bush administration did not properly study the environmental impact.

If there's a poster child for young minority women excelling in challenging technical professions, it's probably Suege Omnik.

RAPE CONVICTION IN BARROW WAS FIRST IN YEARS : In a community where sexual assault is common but seldom reported, a judge has sentenced Guy Yazzie Jr.

When researcher Chie Sakakibara first met the Inupiaq people of Alaska, they spoke to her in their language because they thought she was one of them.

Each week, host Michael Carey gathers commentators for a review of the week's news, politics and public affairs in Anchorage and Alaska.

Charges were filed Monday against eight people in last summer's slaughter of caribou near Point Hope.

The bowhead whale is central to the life and culture of the Iupiaq people of northern Alaska.

I was appalled at the criticism leveled by some legislators of university faculty and students for being "anti-development." More shameful is the response by Chancellor Mark Hamilton calling them "conservative" ...

LOCATION: South of the Kokolik River mouth, about 300 miles southwest of Barrow in northwest Alaska.