Arctic

The company has until late September to complete this summer’s exploratory drilling.

The White House released a video Thursday morning to explain why he will be the first sitting president to visit Alaska’s Arctic.

The arrival of the Fennica after a month’s delay means the company could get to drill for oil beneath the Chukchi Sea this summer.

The commandant says he’s had a peek at bills pending in Congress that detail how his service will fare in its campaign to modernize.

Shell began drilling the top of a well in the Chukchi Sea last week, but it does not have federal permission from the U.S. Interior Department to drill into oil-bearing rocks unless the Fennica is on site.

Foxtales is based on a story told by Ishmael Hope’s late grandfather, Willie Panik Goodwin. Hope relied on his uncles, Alaska Native elders from Kotzebue, to write the game’s narrative.

Activists say climate change and the risk of an oil spill make drilling in the Arctic Ocean a dangerous mistake.

It’s been a festive day in the Northwest Arctic community of Kivalina as residents celebrate the grand opening of a new store. It’s an end to eight months of struggle with limited supplies after Kivalina’s store burned to the ground Dec. 5.

A report published by the US Army Corps of Engineers in March of this year tentatively selected Nome as the site of a proposed deep-draft port, the first Arctic port of its kind in the country.

The Sikuliaq will be working in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas through November on three different research assignments.