Oil and gas platforms in Cook Inlet in 2021, as seen from a floatplane. The Trump administration has announced plans to hold six oil and gas lease sales in Cook Inlet over the next six years, starting ...

Alaska's mountains and oceans provide some of the most dramatic landscapes on earth. Anchorage trails have connected the Chugach Mountains and Cook Inlet for decades, with a few gaps. Just recently ...

Alaska regulators have assessed a $49,000 fine against Hilcorp for lapses in Cook Inlet offshore well management. The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission said on Monday that Hilcorp, the ...

The Trump administration on Monday outlined its plans to auction 1 million acres of federal offshore territory in what it has called the “Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale.” The lease ...

In this photo taken Aug. 25, 2017, provided by NOAA Fisheries, a newborn beluga whale calf sticks its head out of the water in upper Cook Inlet, Alaska. The population of endangered beluga whales in ...

COOK INLET, Alaska — For almost as long as it has been a state, Alaska has been powered by the natural gas buried beneath Cook Inlet, an estuary on its southern coast. The gas used to be so plentiful ...