A feud is escalating over Big Oil’s plans to protect Prince William Sound from another spill The city of Valdez and the owner of the trans-Alaska pipeline are locked in a dispute over environmental protections at the state’s crude oil shipping port.
A global megadeal would give one of Alaska's largest mines a new operator Red Dog mine powers the Northwest Alaska economy, and its future is uncertain. But the planned merger appears unlikely to change much for the operation.
Alaska’s top conservative writer explains why she left the website she founded In a Q&A, Suzanne Downing says she left Must Read Alaska in a dispute with one of the investors who bought the site in 2023 and kept her on as a writer. “I write for a cause, the conservative cause. But there are aspects that are journalistic about it.”
A small Texas firm is gearing up for a $150 million search for oil beneath the Arctic Ocean Narwhal Exploration is one of three small, privately owned companies with offshore leases in West Harrison Bay, a promising but largely unexplored area once controlled by Shell.
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.”
A cabbage named Clyde was set to vie for Alaska State Fair glory. Then, he went missing. PALMER — K Michael Ward arrived at the Alaska State Fair last week and headed for the animal barn, ready for some detective work. Her destination: a sawdust-covered pen, where a herd of aspiring prize-winning cabbages had been assembled atop tarps just before the fair’s annual weigh-off. The semi-retired human