Alena Naiden

Among the highlights from the last year -- subsistence and feasts, innovative technology for hunting and Inupiaq artists taking national stage.

The data also showed good calf recruitment and slightly higher adult cow survival rate.

The Blue Christmas event took place on Dec. 21, with about 150 Utqiaġvik residents gathering at the Eben Hopson Middle School.

Larissa Schierholt will represent Alaska in the 2025 Miss Earth USA Pageant with a goal to bring awareness to the warming of the Arctic.

Blue Christmas is the Christian tradition around the winter solstice to support people who are grieving and experiencing depression during holiday time.

UAF researchers are working to create an early warning alert system using the sea ice radar that has been showing ice conditions in Utqiaġvik for over a decade.

The Selawik National Wildlife Refuge staff hosted a First Friday-style event in Kotzebue on Dec. 6 to present the new sign.

Language experts from the Bering Strait and North Slope regions met in Nome to discuss methods for teaching and learning local Native languages.

GCI customers in Utqiagvik, Deering and Kivalina should have access to 2.5 gig residential internet speed since last month, the company said.

The North Slope Borough mayor and assembly members can now use borough funds to pay for travel expenses for their family members when the borough officials go on business trips.

In Southeast Alaska, the changing climate means more deadly landslides, and in Anchorage, more heavy-snowfall events, according to Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy’s report.

The Alaska’s Changing Environment 2.0 features several Indigenous perspectives from Northwest Alaska.

The store opened this month, to the excitement of many residents.

Results from Atqasuk weren’t recorded by the state for more than a week after the Nov. 5 election.

The results were finalized in the ranked-choice tabulation Wednesday: Robyn Burke led with 60.1% while Saima Chase had 39.9%.