A romantic view of the oil business, particularly the historic West Edmond Field, hides a hard fact: Those wildcatters left a ...

When a large volcano erupts, as Mount Spurr appears close to doing about 80 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, it can release enormous volumes of ash. Fine ash can infiltrate the lungs of people and ...

The second Trump administration has launched the next stage in the half-century-long battle between commerce and conservation over Alaskan oil and gas development. But its moves are delivering a ...

Alaska has long had ambitions to ship its natural gas to international markets, but the cost and scale of such an undertaking has held it back for decades. But there’s been renewed interest in the ...

And his on-again, off-again tariffs, and a related drop in oil prices, have compounded the uncertainty for Alaska lawmakers, who each year must craft a state budget based on volatile oil prices.

He likened Trump’s friendly approach to energy development as “Christmas every day" for a state whose fortunes rise or fall with oil. But the nearly three months since Trump's inauguration have been ...

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