3,380 miles from New York and just 1,250 south of the North Pole, I couldn’t miss the chance to visit the United States’ most ...

Winter temperatures in Alaska’s Utqiagvik routinely drop below minus-40. So why is this city of 4,700 people “desert”? It’s ...

Sunset on Tuesday will mark the final appearance of the sun over Utqiagvik, Alaska, in 2025 as the town enters "polar night," a stretch of roughly 65 days of darkness. The small town, formerly known ...

It's called Polar Night, and it's a phenomenon that happens each year in northern Alaska. The town of Utqiaġvik is the northernmost city in the United States. Located roughly 725 miles northwest of ...

UTQIAGVIK, Alaska - Utqiagvik, Alaska has seen its last sunrise this year; America's northernmost settlement will not see the Sun again until Jan. 22, 2026, as Polar Night begins in the Arctic Circle.

I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of blue and white sea-ice rubble several feet high gave way to flat areas ...