I send you greetings from the all-new Regional Tracking Center for Sector 4 located in San Nicolas, Aruba. I’m not going to lie: this is paradise. We’ve already had the crew out to the beach and surfing…and working hard. We’re a little like Sector 1 in that we have a lot of contact with the... Read more
Hello from our base in Fiji! Our tracking center here in Nadi is now fully operational and we’re tracking both the test flights of Santa’s sleigh as well as movements of the North Pole Navy. We get a lot of questions about the North Pole Navy. Considering our sector is the one with the most... Read more
Greetings Trackers of Sector 3 in Europe and Africa. Our new regional tracking center is operational in Vik, Iceland. My crew of elves are all here, everything is working, and we are actively tracking the test flights of Santa’s sleigh. As we prepare for the season ahead I have a plan in my mind I... Read more
Fellow elves of Sector 5, awaken and arise! I send you greetings from our brand new Regional Tracking Center here in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada. Cold Lake is indeed a cold lake. We’re kind of far north for the first time in many years. But I’m enjoy the mild summer they have here and, in... Read more
Greetings from Iceland, where we are wrapping up the Elf Supervisor annual meetings. Elf Crash Murphy has just dismissed the proceedings and the Elf Supervisors are now on their way to their home base in their assigned sectors. That is where they will remain until Santa returns home from the North Pole after his Christmas... Read more
In the finale of the Christmas-in-July chats at SantaUpdate.com Elf Crash Murphy outlined a schedule for those tracking Santa for Santa in 2023. Following a week-long training session for Elf Supervisors the first week of August tracker elves will be encouraged to begin sending reports to North Pole Flight Command for review. Preliminary reports during... Read more
We don’t have money at the North Pole. That’s not to say we’re broke. We just don’t use money. There are no vending machines. No tips for servers. No coin laundries, no credit cards, and no red kettles for bell-ringing Santas. Elves technically don’t make money. Yes, there’s an elf union. And every now and... Read more
The test flights of Santa’s sleigh have transitioned to a new phase. As the Regional Tracking Centers are announced elves are in training to begin flight tracking. To do that, they need maps. That same training also applies to tracker elves. So, effective immediately, live data tracking maps have been made available for trackers worldwide... Read more
Elf Ed Zachary is the new News Director at the North Pole. He has for years served as a columnist at the North Pole Gazette and at SantaUpdate.com. He is known as the Great Defender of Santa Claus for his many candid answers to questions from non-believers. Here is the transcript of our chat with... Read more
Elf Buck Sanchez is the director of Flight Operations at the North Pole. He coordinates all the support activity and flights behind Santa every Christmas Eve. He joined us in Santa Tracker Chat and we had a very interesting conversation about how sleigh flight works at the North Pole. Here is the transcript: Elf Frank... Read more
I met up today with Elf Crash Murphy at the press conference of North Pole Flight Command announcing the regional tracking center location for Sector 4. He said to share with you some updated information: Crash said that the Regional Tracking Center locations for each sector are more or less done. Two have been announced:... Read more
Elf Agent X is head of North Pole Security. In this chat Elf Agent X talks about the things people do to kidnap Santa, the current search for Santa while he is on walkabout and what to do if you actually find Santa. This is was surprising and informative chat. Here is the transcript: Elf... Read more
