FILE - Visitors to Point Woronzof Park watch the sun set over Cook Inlet and Mount Susitna, on June 7, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, has suspended the lone ...

After completing a court-ordered environmental study, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said no changes are needed for ...

Contango Ore helped build Alaska’s newest major mine. Its merger with Dolly Varden Silver comes amid a flurry of deals in the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The population of endangered beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet continues to decline, federal marine mammal authorities announced Tuesday. A biennial survey conducted by the ...

More than 70% of Alaskans live in the communities along the road system stretching from Fairbanks, through Anchorage, to Kenai, known as the railbelt. Residents of those communities are facing a spike ...

Companies will soon be able to bid on opportunities to tap a volcanic island in Cook Inlet to generate renewable energy. Alaska officials have scheduled a geothermal lease sale covering a little more ...

A northern pike is seen swimming in this undated photo. Northern pike are native to much of Alaska, but not to the Southcentral region south of the Alaska Range. Illegal introductions that started in ...

An unusual offering of royalty-free oil and gas leases in the Cook Inlet basin drew a few bids, with state officials describing this month’s experiment as successful. Bids for six tracts were ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska man walking on a shoreline wound up clinging to a chunk of ice for more than 30 minutes in frigid water when the shoreline ice broke loose and carried him out into Cook ...

In this photo taken Aug. 25, 2017, provided by NOAA Fisheries, a newborn beluga whale calf sticks its head out of the water in upper Cook Inlet, Alaska. The population of endangered beluga whales in ...