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As Kaktovik has seen immense economic and rural growth, leaders in the village see a pathway for oil and gas projects to ...
Kaktovik, Alaska, resident thanks president for blocking environmental groups while Energy Secretary Chris Wright highlights untapped potential.
State and federal officials visit the North Slope Borough. "There's one thing that I want to bring up – we were under attack in Kaktovik by environmental groups," Lampe said. Read On The Fox ...
That is why today, we speak for ourselves, especially when it comes to the federal actions affecting our North Slope homelands. This is especially true for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The North Slope Borough mayor and assembly members can now use borough funds to pay for travel expenses for their family members when the borough officials go on business trips.
Josiah Patkotak, mayor of the North Slope Borough, which includes Kaktovik, said in an October opinion piece that the land “has never been” Gwich’in territory.
Kaktovik is 670 miles (1,078 km) north of Anchorage, on Barter Island, between the Arctic Ocean and Alaska’s North Slope, an area of vast, treeless tundra nearly the size of Oregon.
The polling place in the tiny Arctic village of Kaktovik never opened when Alaska had its primary election this summer because there was no trained staff to run the precinct.
The polling place in the tiny Arctic village of Kaktovik never opened when Alaska had its primary election this summer because there was no trained staff to run the precinct.