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.
National Democrats are “salivating” over a Mary Peltola bid for U.S. Senate. But Alaska’s governor’s race could be “wide open” too. The filing deadline for the 2026 elections is still nearly a year away. But Democrats in Alaska and Outside are anxiously awaiting a decision about which office Peltola will run for.
Offshore in Cook Inlet, a 'silent economy' hunts for gas to keep Alaska running Northern Journal helicoptered out to the offshore rig drilling for the increasingly scarce natural gas that powers urban Alaska.
Amid gas crunch, Alaska could revoke leases from a 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’s failed to advance development that could delay urban Alaska's impending gas shortage.
Fact-checking Tom Cruise: Inside ‘Mission: Impossible’s’ trip to ‘Alaska’ Sure, there could be a secret CIA installation on a Bering Sea island. But taking a dog team across the surrounding sea ice? Only in Hollywood.
New 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 last week without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as urgent: expanding access to commercial fishing careers.