The downtown Anchorage skyline is seen on June 3, 2022, nestled between the Cook Inlet coast and the Chugach Mountains. Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, and the wider Southcentral region depend on ...

Alaskans today are grappling with an unclear future that is balanced between the impacts of a warming climate and the strain of depleting fisheries. What is clear is that a ...

Mount Redoubt, an active volcano, is seen across Cook Inlet from Skilak Lake Road on the Kenai Peninsula on March 17, 2021. A state oil and gas lease sale for the Cook Inlet basin drew only three bids ...

The agency alleges an environmental study by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was conducted with a “serious” lack of transparency.

A small Cook Inlet oil and gas producer has agreed to pay the state of Alaska nearly $203,000 following allegations by state environmental regulators that it violated water pollution discharge limits ...

Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the ...

BOEM schedules 30 Gulf lease sales through 2040 First Gulf sale set for Dec. 10, 2024 Six Alaska Cook Inlet sales scheduled through 2032 Lease plan aims to boost energy security and jobs Reversing ...

This story was produced in a collaboration between Inside Climate News and the Anchorage Daily News. NIKISKI, Alaska—Engineer David Clarke spent more than three decades at BP, starting on a production ...

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 ...

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 ...