More than 70% of Alaskans live in the communities along the road system stretching from Fairbanks, through Anchorage, to Kenai, known as the railbelt. Residents of those communities are facing a spike ...

FILE - Visitors to Point Woronzof Park watch the sun set over Cook Inlet and Mount Susitna, on June 7, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, has suspended the lone ...

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 ...

Two major utilities in Anchorage are expanding their natural gas storage in reservoirs in the Cook Inlet region to help ...

Companies will soon be able to bid on opportunities to tap a volcanic island in Cook Inlet to generate renewable energy. Alaska officials have scheduled a geothermal lease sale covering a little more ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 23 (Reuters) - Energy companies and private investors offered $3.25 million in high bids on Wednesday for the rights to explore for oil and gas in southern Alaska's Cook Inlet ...

A federal judge has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s new system to manage commercial harvests in federal waters of Cook Inlet, concluding that the agency has no obligation to extend that ...

After giving 'emergency authorization,' an Alaska state regulatory panel has decided against the permanent approval of dipnets, which are popular with sport fishers but rarely allowed for commercial ...

Sockeye salmon swim in the Kenai River in 2008. As a result of ligitation, the National Marine Fisheries Service manages commercial salmon harvests in Cook Inlet's federal waters and the state ...