Fifty years ago, a ship long as the Empire State Building sailed toward obstacles that captains usually avoid. The icebreaking tanker SS Manhattan was an oil company’s attempt to see if it might be profitable to move Alaska oil to the East Coast by plowing through the ice-clogged Northwest Passage. Begging his way aboard […]
NOAA scientist Bryan Thomas stands outside the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory. How does the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured at Hawai‘i’s Mauna Loa volcano over the last six decades compare with the air above Alaska? During a recent spring trip to Utqiaġvik, I had a chance to find out by visiting the […]
(Utqiaġvik, Alaska) – After a day on the 9-hole ice course, “The L3mmings” of Utqiaġvik took home first prize at the 5th-annual Top of the World Golf Tournament on Sunday. The tournament is the northern-most golf competition in the world and is a part of the annual Piuraaġiaqta Festival. Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative (ASTAC) and City of Utqiaġvik (Barrow) […]
The Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit with the Alaska State Troopers announced a drug/alcohol seizure made at an airlines bound for Utqiagvik (Barrow) with the assistance of the North Slope Borough Police Department on Thursday. According to the announcement, SDEU and detectives with the NSBPD seized 113 750ml bottles of alcohol being shipped from Las Vegas […]