About Elf Ernest
Elf Ernest is Senior Vice President of Public Relations at the North Pole. As such he oversees all North Pole websites and the News Department, which includes Kringle Radio, North Pole Radio News, SantaUpdate.com, SantaTrackers.net and NorthPoleFlightCommand.com. Ernest also oversees all official North Pole social media channels.
Entries by Elf Ernest
False Reports of Santa in the Philippines
We have been bombarded with false reports of Santa’s visits to the Philippines in the last little while. There is no way that Santa has already been to the Philippines. It is early Christmas Eve evening in the Philippines and Santa would not interrupt all the Christmas Eve festivities going on there. We think Santa […]
World Awaits Word from Santa
The clock is ticking and there has been no word from Santa for about 15 minutes. Right now, the Tracking Department cannot tell me exactly where he is. “He’s ordered radio silence and he has turned his jammers on,” Elf Quinton said. “The jammers means that nobody can pick him up. It means he wants […]
Santa Orders Radio Silence
Santa has ordered radio silence. For now, there are no communications taking place between the North Pole and Santa — or anyone and Santa. Santa is completely alone now until we hear from him. “This is a normal course of action during the flight,” Elf Billy explained to me. “We do this every now and […]
Elf Agent X Reports New Urgent Security Concerns for Santa
Word out of the Tracking Center is that Elf Agent X is asking for more secret spies for Santa in Asia. He just doesn’t feel he has enough trustworthy information for Santa to operate safely there. If you live in Asia and can be an elf, now would be a good time to sign up. […]
Sleigh Technician Team Leaves the North Pole
Elf Quinton has loaded a sleigh with “technicians” who will be meeting up with Santa soon to make a repair or a modification of some sort to Santa’s sleigh. I saw them leave moments ago, toolboxes in hand. We’re not sure if this has something to do with the old sleigh or if Santa has […]
North Pole Airlift Begins
Winter weather continues to bear down on the North Pole but that is not stopping an airlift in progress at the North Pole. We’ve told you already about the sleighs leaving with late work coming in from Santa’s Workshop and the Wrapping Department but there are other sleighs leaving too. They are filled with elves […]
Wrapping Department Strained
As Santa continues to fly at a relatively slow pace at this hour things are hopping still at the North Pole. The workshop is still in a frenzy and they are just pulling their hair out in the Wrapping Department. With Santa already gone, anything they wrap now will need to be rushed to wherever […]
Santa in Flight Towards Asia
Santa continues his pre-delivery preparations aboard the sleigh as he flies high above the Pacific ocean at this moment. We have been receiving a lot of email with questions about Santa’s sleigh. Folks want to know more about it. Does Santa have food with him? What about a radio? Is there something aboard for the […]
Record Breaking Amounts of Mail from Australia, New Zealand Pour into the NP
Elf Hugo can’t believe what he is seeing — does every believer in Australia and New Zealand have a computer now? The amount of email coming in to the North Pole at this moment from New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and other areas of the south Pacific is staggering. “We can handle it,” Hugo says. “We […]
Big Question: What if the Reindeer Get Tired?
An email received minutes ago from Harper in Auckland, New Zealand who is following along with us on this Christmas Eve writes in a question that has come up several times in the past few hours: what does Santa do if the reindeer get tired in the middle of the flight and give up flying? […]
Command Center Says First Deliveries are Hours Away
While Santa is in the air and while bedtime warnings are being issued now the Command Center here at the North Pole warns that it will be several hours still before Santa’s deliveries actually begin. Not only does Santa need to wait until kids go to sleep but he needs to figure out local weather […]



