Jacob Lane is among three first-time whaling captains in Point Hope, each of whom landed their first bowhead this season. The captain’s role comes with the responsibility of a community leader ...

(Photo courtesy of Guy Omnik for the Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub) This weekend kicked off the Qaġruq Whaling Festival in Point Hope, where each year, people come from around the ...

The spirit of collaboration and sharing spread across the Arctic as the communities of Point Hope, Nuiqsut, Wainwright, Point Lay, Kaktovik and Utqiagvik celebrated whaling feasts last month.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder and attempted murder in the late Sunday shooting in Point Hope, a remote Inupiat whaling community on Alaska’s northwest ...

Whale bones in Point Hope, Alaska, on May 8 (left) and June 16 at the site where the annual feast marking the end of the whaling season is held Whaling captain Isaac Killigvuk hunts geese in Point ...

Agencies visited Point Hope in March to discuss plans for the ... Oomittuk has spent most his life whaling, and said that if the community is unsure–or can’t trust–what the government ...

She's the former mayor of Point Hope, Alaska, which she calls the whaling capital. "We rely on the whale, the bowhead whale," she said. "It is our identity. It is who we are, and the thought of ...

A 16-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with two counts each of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the late Sunday shooting in Point Hope, a remote Inupiat whaling community on ...