Alena Naiden

Over 200 students attended the four-day-long Alaska Association of Student Government Spring Conference in Utqiagvik.

Education officials in the Northwest Arctic discussed last week cuts to middle school sports programs, additional meals and curriculum supplies to address the $9.3 million budget deficit.

Northwest Alaska residents can upgrade smoke alarms in their homes this summer.

To harvest whales, seals or walruses, Wainwright hunter John Hopson goes out at sea. He leaves the bluff area next to the village and travels farther from shore, where the waves often become rough.

In the Backyard Buoys project, subsistence hunters and fishermen collaborate with scientists and developers to install small buoys in locations traditionally used for subsistence and monitor the wave data, which is available in an app.

Borough starts discussing 2025 budget and begins brainstorming ideas about potential budget cuts.

Northwest Alaska’s regional corporation said that it won’t renew the land-use surface permit it issued to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority.

An access road runs between the community of Kobuk and the Bornite camp in the Ambler Mining District, on July 24, 2021.

Esther Suŋauraq Hugo, from Anaktuvuk Pass, received an Honorary Associate of Arts Degree in Iñupiaq Studies in May 2024 for her contributions to the community.

Many Wainwright residents were without heat, electricity and water and sewer services since Wednesday, the borough said.