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 ...

Each year, as autumn turns to winter, the sun sets over Utqiagvik, Alaska, and does not rise again for roughly 65 days.

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. The sun finally rose for the first time this ...

When Myron McCumber talks about life in Alaska, he talks in terms of "the lower 48," a saying used by locals to describe the continental US. "Alaskans tend to be pretty independent thinkers," he told ...