A U.S. District Court judge in Anchorage has ruled against the state of Alaska in an 11-year-old legal dispute that has significant implications for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and state ...

A dispute between the state of Alaska and the federal government over who has the rights to 20,000 acres of land in the ...

No oil or gas company sought to drill in a contentious wildlife refuge in Alaska, the Interior Department announced Wednesday. As required by a 2017 law, the Biden administration offered the private ...

Baked with the around-the-clock summer sunlight and regularly peppered with lightning strikes, the Yukon Flats region in eastern Interior Alaska is regularly set ablaze with fires that are considered ...

Three days after President Donald Trump signed an order approving federal permits for a proposed mining road through the ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service released a plan for a land swap that could lead to a gravel road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The Biden administration backed the idea Wednesday of a ...

The roadway proposal is part of a federal infrastructure package redistributing $183.4 million from U.S. Department of ...

The Biden administration has thrown its support behind a controversial land swap that would allow a road to be built through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska. In a draft environmental review ...

The Trump administration on Monday proposed allowing companies searching for oil and gas deposits in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to disrupt polar bears living there.

The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday a congressionally mandated oil and gas drilling lease auction in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge received no bids from energy companies. “The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Environmental ...

The Goose Fire (#395) is burning in the Yukon Flats in northeast Alaska about 41 miles east of Fort Yukon on Aug. 4, 2022. Smokejumpers are protecting two Native allotments from this and the Belle ...