Hilcorp has requested approval from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources to build an oil-gas combination well and gas-only well in Whiskey Gulch near Anchor Point.

As storms that were once thought of as extreme become more common, storms that are thought of as impossible — or at least extremely unlikely — start to become real concerns.

Seal oil has been a diet staple for Alaska’s Inupiat people for centuries. However, because of federal and state health regulations, you can’t buy it in stores and it can’t be served in restaurants.

Biden’s order shouldn’t have an immediate impact on oil operations in Alaska because doesn’t it prohibit work on existing oil and gas leases.

Marathon Petroleum is one step closer to reopening the Nikiski plant as an import facility.

The group signed off on a letter to other advisory committees around Alaska urging them to take action on climate change.

A federal investigator is still at Red Dog Mine to determine the nature of the accident in their final report. To date, this is the sole fatality report the federal mining safety authority has filed on Red Dog.

Crowley Fuels is set to sell its Southeast Alaska business to Anchorage-based Petro Marine Services. Some fear the move could make life in the panhandle even less affordable.

President Joe Biden imposed a “temporary moratorium” on all oil and gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge shortly after taking office on Wednesday, citing the “alleged legal deficiencies underlying the program” and the inadequacy of a required environmental review.

Locking in the oil and gas leases could make it more difficult for Biden’s administration to reverse course.