In this Aug. 12, 2005, file photo, a boat drives past a skin boat display near whale bones and an arch made of a whale jaw on ...

Set between Arctic tundra and the icy ocean, Utqiaġvik is the northernmost city in the US, home to about 4,500 people and ...

Utqiagvik. That's the name that Barrow will now be identified as. By a margin of six votes, residents of Barrow have voted to change the name of their city back to its Inupiaq name. City council ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Utqiaġvik, Alaska, is the northernmost town in the US, overlooking the Arctic Ocean. Polar night begins this week, plunging the ...

A local native corporation is suing the city formerly known as Barrow, demanding it halt the official name-change to Utqiagvik. At least for now. The official switch from Barrow to Utqiagvik went into ...

Utqiagvik saw its last sunrise Saturday before the polar night began. The sun will rise again in the northernmost city of the U.S. in 65 days, on Jan. 23. The sun just set in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. It ...