As Alaska’s U.S. Senate campaign heats up, super PACs boost out-of-state candidates
The groups appear to be trying to “dilute the vote” for the leading GOP and Democratic hopefuls, one strategist says.
Data center critics flood Alaska land managers with opposition to North Slope project
Hundreds of comments have been filed, with subject lines like “HELL NO! To ANY DATA CENTERS” and “NO AI.”
‘You’d be crying at the pump’: This Alaska village’s gas was $8.44 — before the Iran war
Gas and heating fuel prices in rural Alaska were already high. An impending spike from the Iran war could “wipe out” communities.
A huge data center could rise on Alaska’s North Slope
The $500 million project could consume twice as much natural gas as urban Alaska’s grid.
Utilities say Alaska needs an LNG import terminal. Here’s how consumers could end up paying for not one, but two.
Planning for two separate projects is currently moving ahead.
Alaska troopers seize Kodiak trawl group’s electronics in bycatch probe
An investigation appears to center on whether seafood companies violated federal rules by processing accidentally caught salmon and halibut into low-value fish meal.
Typhoons and other climate threats could cost Alaska billions. After Halong, advocates say it’s time to act.
A study published before the storm said there’s an $80 million-a-year gap in money needed to protect or move coastal communities.
With twin threats from Russia and China, U.S. military puts new focus on Alaska
In the past, large-scale exercises “occurred in Alaska,” one general says. “Now, this is high-end training that is occurring — that is about Alaska, from Alaska.”
Anchorage spent more than $200,000 to support the Trump-Putin summit. Will it get the money back?
Other cities’ efforts to recoup spending to protect Trump have failed. “We have sent demand letters, phone calls and made public statements. We have received no response.”
With natural gas crunch looming, Alaska utilities won’t start work on big wind farms before tax credits expire
One utility leader points to private developers and the Trump tax bill. But advocates say utilities share some of the blame.
Anchorage electricity prices could go up again. Blame the warm winter.
Anchorage utility executives say that a mild winter translated into lower electricity sales — and a hole in their budget.
Amid Alaska natural gas crunch, state could revoke leases from company whose drilling has stalled
The Dunleavy administration is threatening to strip Texas-based BlueCrest Energy of oil and gas leases near Anchorage, saying it has failed to advance development that could delay urban Alaska’s impending gas shortage.
Amid Alaska natural gas crunch, state could revoke leases from company whose drilling has stalled
The Dunleavy administration is threatening to strip Texas-based BlueCrest Energy of oil and gas leases near Anchorage, saying it has failed to advance development that could delay urban Alaska’s impending gas shortage.
Proposed Alaska bitcoin mine would use as much power as the state’s largest coal plant produces
The startup planning the operation near the North Slope oil fields would power its computers not with coal but with another fossil fuel: natural gas that’s currently going unused.
Coastal Alaskans see commercial fishing limits as a ‘crisis.’ Lawmakers don’t
Alaska’s Legislature adjourned in May without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as urgent: expanding access to commercial fishing careers.
Alaska utility execs to lawmakers: Let’s revive Susitna hydroelectric megaproject
The request by leaders of the state’s urban utilities faces opposition from some advocates, who say wind power is a more politically and economically realistic bet than the multibillion-dollar Susitna development.
Hilcorp already owns most Cook Inlet oil and gas. It just bought out another player.
A Hilcorp spokesman said the company is looking to drill new wells as soon as this winter.
Conservation group’s lawsuit seeks to speed listing of Alaska king salmon under Endangered Species Act
The lawsuit asks a judge to order the service to “promptly issue” its decision on the petition by a specific date.
Alaska’s attorney general flew to South Africa and France. A corporate-funded group paid
The itinerary for Treg Taylor’s trip to Normandy included a stay at a five-star hotel favored by Hollywood stars and polo players.
A diesel spill along the Yukon raises fears about Hilcorp’s drilling program
No one is saying whether the truck that spilled 1,000 gallons of fuel had been on a Hilcorp job. But it belongs to a company that’s worked for Hilcorp on its Yukon Flats exploration program.
Alaska’s governor flew to Taiwan to sell LNG. China’s not happy.
China says Dunleavy’s trip “sends a very wrong signal to the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces.”
Think sled-dog racing is fading? In Alaska’s mushing-crazy Kuskokwim Delta, it’s booming
High-school boys in Akiachak can “forget the muscle cars,” said Barron Sample, principal of the village’s school. “You get the muscle dogs,” he said.
The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.