When the Alaska Midnight Sun 7s rugby tournament first started nearly 30 years ago, “it used to be a lot of the local guys just kind of screwing around,” according to tournament director and vice ...

The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon. It occurs in regions near the Arctic and Antarctic circles. During summer, the sun remains visible for weeks ...

The Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow returned to Fairbanks this year, bringing Alaska Natives, American Indians and First Nations People of Canada together for the first time in three years. The annual ...

UTQIAGVIK, Alaska - Northern Alaska is now home to the only place in the U.S. that will see nonstop sunlight in the annual period known to locals as Midnight Sun. The sun rose at Utqiaġvik at 2:58 AM ...

In 2020, Deilah Johnson (Inupiaq) held an event at a hospital in her hometown of Nome, Alaska, to gain support for a policy banning plastic bags. She was nervous — the event was sponsored, and there ...

In the days before my recent trip to Anchorage, I stretched myself into an Alaskan biorhythm by staying up late and sleeping in, certainly a luxury of the semi-retired. And it worked. I was ready for ...

The prime movers responsible for the success of the 2023 Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow appear animated when discussing the event’s dances, chanted prayers, singing, crafts displays, food vendors and ...

Mobile homes, mosquito bites, salmon fishing and midnight baseball under the sun. For the Palouse Empire Cougars, summer baseball in Alaska was nothing but good times. “I remember the Fairbanks ...