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Alaska House members urge Trump to keep the name of North America's tallest peak as Denali
The Alaska House on Monday voted to urge President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America's tallest peak as Denali.
Trump targets Alaska's oil and other resources as environmentalists gear up for a fight
President Donald Trump's aim to boost oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska is being cheered by state political leaders who see new fossil fuel development as critical to Alaska's economic future and criticized by environmental groups that worry about a warming climate.
A second oil and gas lease sale for Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge draws no bids
The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said no bids were submitted for this week's oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a sale the state has challenged as too restrictive and at odds with a 2017 law aimed at opening the refuge's sweeping coastal plan to exploration and development.
Alaska governor asks Trump to roll back restrictions on oil and gas drilling
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's wish list for the incoming Trump administration includes oil and gas exploration in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and reversing restrictions on logging and road-building in a temperate rainforest that provides habitat for wolves, bears and salmon.
'It's a bird! It's a plane!' In Alaska, it's both, with a pilot dropping turkeys off to rural homes
In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there's no relying on DoorDash to have Thanksgiving dinner — or any dinner — delivered. But some residents living well off the grid nevertheless have turkeys this holiday, thanks to the Alaska Turkey Bomb.
Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist
The purported sighting caused a stir on St. Paul Island, a birding haven sometimes called the "Galapagos of the North" for its diversity of life. That's because stowaway rats can quickly populate and overrun remote islands, devastating bird populations.
Residents in Alaska capital clean up swamped homes after an ice dam burst and unleashed a flood
About 100 homes and some businesses were damaged by rapidly rising floodwaters that crested around 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, according to initial estimates. In some areas, cars floated as people scrambled to evacuate.
U.S. judge suspends Alaska Cook Inlet lease, pending additional environmental review
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 has ruled in suspending the lone lease stemming from that sale.
Cruise ship-free Saturdays would ease burden of tourism, say some locals in Juneau, Alaska
Every day from May to October, throngs of tourists descend on Juneau, Alaska, with peak days seeing up to 18,000 visitors. Some locals say it's ruining what they love about the small capital city of 32,000.
Environmentalists urge U.S. to plan 'phasedown' of Alaska's key oil pipeline amid climate concerns
Environmental groups on Wednesday petitioned the U.S. Department of Interior to review climate impacts related to the decades-old trans-Alaska pipeline system and develop a plan for a "managed phasedown" of the 1,287-kilometre pipeline, which is Alaska's economic lifeline.