Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— A federally recognized Alaska Native Tribal Nation, along with several community and environmental health and justice groups, notified the Department of the Interior and the Bureau ...

An offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Cook Inlet mandated by the federal government closed earlier this month after receiving no bids. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed by Congress last year ...

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 ...

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 ...

One way out of Alaska’s impending natural gas shortage could sit under the ocean floor, a few miles north and offshore of the Kenai Peninsula community of Anchor Point. There, a company says it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The downtown Anchorage skyline is seen on June 3, 2022, from Earthquake Park. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) The downtown ...

The US Interior Department unveiled a detailed schedule for offshore oil and gas lease sales from 2025 to 2040, including 15 sales in the Gulf of Mexico and 6 in Alaska's Cook Inlet. The US Interior ...

The lease sale comes as Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration push to ramp up oil offerings in Alaska. The results of an oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet will be announced ...

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 ...