In fall, Nuiqsut's whaling crews travel roughly 80 miles by boat to the village's camp at Cross Island, north of Prudhoe Bay. From there, last year, Nuiqsut's crews harvested four bowhead whales.

Crews from the North Slope village of Nuiqsut have landed the first bowheads of the fall whaling season. The Ipalook Crew, lead by Captain Herbert Ipalook and his wife, Vera, harpooned the first ...

A major proposed North Slope oil project is running into local opposition from residents of the village of Nuiqsut, who are already partially surrounded by development and wary of more.

The village of Nuiqsut in the winter of 1999. (ERIK HILL / ADN archive) On Wednesday, the federal Bureau of Land Management held a sale intended to more than double the amount of active oil and ...

North of the Arctic Circle, the tiny village of Nuiqsut, Alaska, has become the latest flash point in the struggle between oil drilling and environmentalism. The town, with a population of 400 ...

In Nuiqsut, residents fear a repeat of a blowout of a well a decade ago run by Repsol North America, a Spanish oil and gas company, about 18 miles from the village.

The 36-year-old Inupiat and his friend Jonah Taleak were goofing off, poking around Native fishing huts outside Nuiqsut, a remote village in Alaska’s Arctic, not far from the Beaufort Sea.

And here in Nuiqsut, a roadless village of about 460 residents on Alaska's oil-rich North Slope, the temperatures may have been plunging but the children were warming quickly.

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