Energy & Mining

Kiera O-Brien said her childhood in Ketchikan led her to where she is today: working for a green energy developer as a public policy representative.

Despite climate targets set by the Biden administration and corporate executives, the U.S. is still building new natural gas plants that threaten to cause greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come.

As Hilcorp looks for more gas, the company is seeking to extract the resource from beneath private parcels like Shaw’s.

Casey Sixkiller, the Region 10 administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, has sent a recommendation to EPA headquarters to protect the area by vetoing the proposed mine.

Alaska currently gets less than 1% of its power from solar.

Many southern states are paying around $3 a gallon at the pump, but a few western states, including Alaska, are averaging nearly $5 a gallon. 

Caribou and reindeer populations have been declining around the circumpolar north.

An October report from the state labor department said Alaska ranked 47th in the U.S. for job recovery from 2019 through the first half of 2022.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy tangled with his challengers Tuesday in an Anchorage debate that featured the first joint appearance of all four gubernatorial candidates on the ballot.

Jobs have been slow to recover across many industries since the COVID-19 pandemic began, but oil and gas is having an especially hard time.