Alaskans today are grappling with an unclear future that is balanced between the impacts of a warming climate and the strain ...

The downtown Anchorage skyline is seen on June 3, 2022, nestled between the Cook Inlet coast and the Chugach Mountains. Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, and the wider Southcentral region depend on ...

A small Cook Inlet oil and gas producer has agreed to pay the state of Alaska nearly $203,000 following allegations by state environmental regulators that it violated water pollution discharge limits ...

The agency alleges an environmental study by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was conducted with a “serious” lack of transparency.

A view from Skilak Lake Road across Cook Inlet to Mount Redoubt, an active stratovolcano in the Aleutian Range. Credit: Lisa Hupp/USFWS A state oil and gas auction that offered royalty-free leases in ...

A Cook Inlet beluga whale mother and neonatal calf swim together. (Public domain photo by Hollis Europe and Jacob Barbaro/NOAA Fisheries) A federal judge is sending Interior Department officials back ...

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 ...

The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources ...

This story was produced in a collaboration between Inside Climate News and the Anchorage Daily News. NIKISKI, Alaska—Engineer David Clarke spent more than three decades at BP, starting on a production ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An oil tanker being loaded with fuel at a refinery broke free of its moorings in the Cook Inlet port of Nikiski and drifted until it went aground about a half mile away, its owners ...

A state oil and gas auction that offered royalty-free leases in the Cook Inlet basin as an incentive for new exploration drew only three bids, according to results released Wednesday by the Alaska ...