A state oil and gas auction that offered royalty-free leases in the Cook Inlet basin as an incentive for new exploration drew only three bids, according to results released Wednesday by the Alaska ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration on Monday outlined its plans to auction 1 million acres of federal offshore territory in what it has called the “Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale.” The lease ...

A view from Skilak Lake Road across Cook Inlet to Mount Redoubt, an active stratovolcano in the Aleutian Range. Credit: Lisa Hupp/USFWS A state oil and gas auction that offered royalty-free leases in ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge has suspended the lease stemming from a 2022 oil and gas sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet basin after finding problems with the environmental review it was based on. U ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — An environmental review underpinning a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts on endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales, a federal judge ...