NUIQSUT — Snow whips through the streets, stinging the skin and piling up in dunes. It is springtime in Nuiqsut, blinding white, 1 degree Fahrenheit with a 30 mile-per-hour wind. A few dozen kids are not feeling the bite, as they play in the gym of the Nuiqsut School (home of the Trappers). They are […]
“Professor Fuller Drops Dead in Garden.” So reads the headline in the Farthest-North Collegian newspaper of June 1, 1935. In the story, an unnamed writer described how the the wife of the only physics professor at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines screamed when she found Veryl Fuller face down in his garden. […]
People travel north from all over for a chance to see the aurora. Soon, Chris Fallen will make his own. Sometime around the darkness of the September 19 new moon, the space physicist will travel to an antenna field off the Copper River. There, he will pulse transmitters on and off to create radio-induced aurora, […]
After seven hours of jury deliberation, Aurora Theater Killer, James Holmes, escaped the death penalty and instead received life without parole, it was announced moments ago. He avoided the death penalty because every jury member must agree on the death penalty in order to apply it. The jury could not come to a unanimous decision. […]