Cold and rainy weather has slowed the wildfires that have been raging in Interior Alaska since late last week. Firefighters gained some ground overnight, but the fires threatening neighborhoods in ...

The Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge is seen from the air on Sept. 1, 2006. Hilcorp on Sept. 19, 2024, applied to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources to install water level gauges nearby in ...

As an economist who has spent more than three decades quantifying Alaska’s resource-based industries, I have seen how our state’s abundant wildlife supports jobs in rural Alaska, brings in new ...

The plan would open up 11 million acres to drilling and remove conditions, including protections for sensitive ecological areas, on oil and gas leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The ...

Wildland fires near Healy have displaced scores of residents under evacuation orders and destroyed multiple structures including homes, according to damage assessments emerging this week. Alaska’s ...

Earlier this summer, Interior Alaska wildfires were so widespread, Fairbanks resident Nettie La Belle-Hamer had to prepare a go-box in case the flames encroached too closely on her home. La ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This screenshot shows part of a map published by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources showing the Dalton Highway corridor ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The state of Alaska on Monday sued the Biden administration over restrictions set on an upcoming oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The state argues in ...