Three French tourists are dead in a fresh avalanche in Arctic...
COPENHAGEN — For the second time in a matter of days, an avalanche has claimed lives in northern Norway.
Three French tourists were pronounced dead...
Nordic skier-turned-musher wins 50th running of Alaska’s Iditarod race
ANCHORAGE — Brent Sass, a 42-year-old former college Nordic skier, glided into Nome early on Tuesday morning to win Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog...
Climate change, COVID loom over Alaska’s 50th annual Iditarod Sled Dog...
ANCHORAGE —Forty-nine mushers and their teams of huskies trotted through Alaska's largest city on Saturday to start the 50th annual running of the Iditarod...
Icelandic rescuers locate bodies days after plane crashes into lake
COPENHAGEN — Icelandic rescuers have located the bodies of three tourists and the pilot after their sightseeing plane crashed into a lake last week,...
A key Arctic Alaska port expansion gets $250 million in federal...
The project to expand and deepen a key port in Arctic Alaska will get a $250 million boost in federal funding from recently passed...
A new media campaign highlights difference between walrus and elephant ivory
Revulsion over the devastating poaching of elephants in Africa has had an unintended victim, say Alaska Native groups: the legal and economically important trade...
Russia-Norway border sees fewest crossings since Soviet times
With 2021 dominated by pandemic-related travel restrictions caused by the pandemic, the number of of travelers across the Norwegian-Russian border reached record lows.
“The total...
Cruise liner Hurtigruten cuts short Antarctic voyage after COVID outbreak
OSLO — Norwegian cruise and travel operator Hurtigruten Group will cut short a voyage in the Antarctica region following an outbreak of the coronavirus,...
Santa Claus sets off from the Arctic Circle on annual Christmas...
Santa Claus set off from the Arctic Circle — in this case, Rovaniemi, Finland, one of several places across the Arctic with a Christmas...
Nunavik quarantine for travelers takes effect
Travelers from the south who are bound for Nunavik are now required to undergo a 10-day quarantine if they have not received three doses...
