"King Cove"

Eight conservation organizations are joining Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in a federal lawsuit over Izembek Refuge.

Road advocates from the King Cove region are suing federal officials for denying them the right to build a road through a wildlife refuge.

The State of Alaska may sue to set up a right-of-way through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

Don Young was allotted five minutes to question Jewell on the president’s $12 billion budget for Interior. Young asked only about King Cove.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has asked officials from King Cove for an alternative to the road.

Murkowski has been hammering Jewell in the press for months over her decision in December rejecting the road, through 10 miles of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to Cold Bay.