Rachel Waldholz, Alaska’s Energy Desk

Researchers say it appears the biggest effects right now are on people’s ability to travel across the landscape.

In its final days, the Obama administration is forging ahead with a promise to include Alaska Native tribes in the management of fish and wildlife on federal land. Deputy Interior Secretary Michael Connor was in Anchorage today to announce a pilot project giving Native communities in the Ahtna region greater say in managing the subsistence…

Hydaburg Mayor Anthony Christianson has been appointed the new chair of the Federal Subsistence Board.

The Obama administration has removed the Arctic Ocean from any new oil and gas leasing for the next five years.

Two thirds of major weather stations in Alaska have logged above normal temperatures every single month of 2016.

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s upset victory, President Barack Obama still has two months left in office, to close out policy decisions and try to cement any final pieces of his legacy.

Former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta died Sunday in Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow. Family members said the cause was cancer. He was 71.

The State of Alaska and a dozen Native organizations have filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to overturn a ruling that designated vast swaths of coastal Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears.

North Pole Republican John Coghill, faces a challenge from Luke Hopkins, a Democrat and former mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough. The race hinges on how each candidate would approach the state’s budget crisis.

Ward is a longtime activist in Republican politics, but she says Donald Trump is the first presidential candidate she’s worked for since Pat Buchanan’s primary run in 1996.