The federal government is asking the public for input on this year’s oil and gas lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), an Indiana-sized area of land on the North Slope.
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How bold? Governor’s climate action team talks emissions reduction goals and education
Governor Bill Walker’s Climate Action Task Force met Wednesday to discuss a draft document that could influence the state’s climate change policy in the future.
Arctic without borders: Inuit Circumpolar Council meets in Utqiaġvik
This week, Indigenous people from four Arctic countries are gathered in Utqiaġvik for the Inuit Circumpolar Council’s 2018 General Assembly.
Here’s how a planeload of salmon gets from Cook Inlet to customers in Anchorage
It’s been a tough start to Alaska’s fishing season this year. But now the sockeye run is heating up. We followed a single plane-load of sockeye – from its catch site across Cook Inlet to the backdoor of a downtown Anchorage restaurant.
Feds ask Alaska LNG to hire contractor to help with project permitting
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission sent a letter to the state, requesting that it pay for a third-party contractor to help with federal review of the project.
With groceries dwindling on a remote Alaska island, the government opened a seal harvest early
Dwindling supplies of groceries on a remote Bering Sea island prompted the federal government last month to approve an unusual, early opening of an annual subsistence seal harvest.