The poetic collective noun for polar bears is an ‘aurora’, but around the community of Kaktovik they may be more accurately described as an ‘inevitability’. An inevitability of polar bears.

The number of fluent Iñupiaq speakers has declined in the last decade, but the interest in language revitalization has been growing, according to the results from a survey released this month.

Alaska Natives celebrated the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) decision to reinstate leasing and expansion for Alaska’s oil and gas, community leaders told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

NUIQSUT, Alaska (AP) — Though the weather outside was frightful, schoolchildren in the northern Alaska Inupiat community of Nuiqsut were so delighted for a visit by Santa that they braved wind ...

much like they have for thousands of years.” The park lies within the traditional homelands of the Inupiat people, who still live in the area. “Part of the motive for Congress to establish the ...

Bill Hess, an Alaskan writer and photographer, is one of this breed. His goal is not just to introduce us to the Inupiat Eskimos of northern Alaska and their whale-centered culture, but to ...

An out-of-state company that provides support to defense and civilian government agencies across the globe has acquired a veteran-owned defense support services firm in Colorado Springs.

The story, which draws from her Inupiat heritage, is set in the 1890s, and follows a woman named Kayaliruk on a quest across northwestern Alaska and into the Bering Sea as she seeks to rescue her ...

The teenager was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the slayings, which have rocked Point Hope, a remote Inupiat whaling community on Alaska’s northwest coast, bordering ...

As the first snows coat Alaska, families are bracing for a long and difficult winter in the midst of historically high energy prices. Across the Lower 48, many will face similar hardships as ...

Alaska Native leaders met with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in Washington on Thursday after she had rejected or ignored at least eight previous requests, they said. Elected leaders of the North ...