In her gloved hand, Nicole Norman holds up a small sea creature: a dark, armored and articulated shell glistening with the slick of seawater. She flips it around, revealing vibrant orange flesh on its ...

Mushers who have been competing in the Iditarod a long time have relationships and traditions they re-visit each time they run the race. And for Martin Buser, when he gets to Unalakleet, that means a ...

Recently I had cause to revisit one of my favourite nineties comics, Muktuk Wolfsbreath, which appeared in Terry Laban's Cud, then in a series from DC/Vertigo drawn by the wonderful Steve Parkhouse.

In Kotzebue, Thanksgiving dinner will include frozen sheefish cut with a bandsaw. In Nome, salmonberry pie with a graham cracker crust. In Huslia, moose-head soup and roasted goose. People who live in ...

MUKTUK, Yukon — Bundled in his bright red coat, icicles dripping from his beard, his cheeks like roses, his nose like a cherry, champion musher Frank Turner is a dead ringer for Santa Claus as his ...

The title character in Norma Dunning's short story collection, Annie Muktuk and Other Stories, was inspired by reading an anthropologist's characterization of Canada's Arctic. "He was portraying Inuit ...

Planet Alaska recently relocated from Sitka back to Juneau. When I got on the ferry I felt the slow pace of Sitka disappear and the fast pace of Juneau approach. As Southeast Alaskans, we know each ...

The nation's northernmost city got a burst of good news Tuesday during a slow season of spring whaling, when a 44-foot bowhead that had been struck and lost floated to the surface to be rediscovered ...

Aug. 10—Chugach State Park, Eagle River, Hunter Pass, South Fork, trails The newly constructed Muktuk Marston/Hunter Pass trail in Chugach State Park will link Arctic Valley Ski Area with Eagle ...