A major proposed North Slope oil project is running into local opposition from residents of the village of Nuiqsut, who are already partially surrounded by development and wary of more.
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Utqiaġvik whalers finally land bowhead nearly two months into season
Some veteran whalers say the absence of the marine mammals has been unprecedented, amid record-setting air and water temperatures.
Mark Begich, frustrated by rural Alaska’s exorbitant prices, is opening a grocery store in Utqiaġvik
Begich says his company, Stuaqpak Inc., will offer lower prices and better products, and be more accountable to residents than the Canadian corporation that ran the store previously.
Trump takes to Twitter to back Dunleavy amid recall effort
The Recall Dunleavy chair says the president should stay out of state politics.
A month into Utqiaġvik’s whaling season, none have been landed
Some residents say this is unprecedented — the whale-dependent village captured nearly 20 whales last fall. Also unprecedented are this year’s temperatures: It was the warmest May-through-September on record in Utqiaġvik.
New proposed LNG project would ship gas from North Slope to Asia on icebreaking tankers
Qilak LNG made the announcement Wednesday that the it plans on shipping gas on icebreaking tankers from fields in Point Thomson.