Alaska Weighs Relaxing Rules of Exploration
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Relaxing the rules for heavy equipment on the state's thawing tundra would open the central North Slope to exploration convoys three or four weeks earlier than in recent years.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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In a win for environmentalists, the  U.S. Interior Department says it is willing to withdraw  sensitive wetlands from a large area in Alaska's western Arctic  region that it wanted to open next week to oil and natural gas  drilling.
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Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better
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By Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 17--Alaska's first astronaut has been in space about a week, and so far Bill Oefelein's trip from Last Frontier to Final Frontier has been a smooth ride.
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By H.JOSEF HEBERT  WASHINGTON - The Interior Department is willing to temporarily abandon the sale of oil leases in an environmentally sensitive area surrounding Lake Teshekpuk on Alaska's North Slope.
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To extract oil from the Jack field, a rig will have to negotiate freezing waters, boiling oil and seismic uncertainty. Hereâs how.
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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 27--SOLDOTNA -- A subcommittee of Kenai Peninsula fishing interests  could not reach consensus on fishing methods for a subsistence fishery on the  Kenai and Kasilof rivers.
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By Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 27--WASILLA -- As state officials draft rules for the new Knik River Public Use Area, they're calling on the public to help.
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A U.S. federal appeals court  has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) to suspend oil  exploration operations in the Beaufort Sea off the north coast  of Alaska pending a legal challenge being brought by  environmental activists and Alaska native groups.
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By Melissa Devaughn, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Sep. 10--In the deeply forested lands of Afognak Island, fewer than 1,000 Roosevelt elk wander freely, ignorant of the property lines they cross. They ford creeks, climb ridges and wade through kettle ponds.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The search for six crew  members missing from a wrecked cargo ship off an Alaska island  has been suspended, and authorities are focusing on the cleanup  of spilled bunker fuel oil from the vessel, an official said on  Saturday.
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By Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 16--WASILLA -- People who live and play in the Knik River valley are divided over the possibility of restrictions on off-road vehicles in the scenic area famous for its long-standing "anything goes" attitude.
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An oil companyâs plan to begin exploratory drilling near the remote site of Robert Smithsonâs âSpiral Jettyâ along the Great Salt Lake in Utah has stirred an impassioned response from artists and others who fear that the project could endanger that massive artwork. The jetty, a 1,500-foot-long curlicue of salt crystals, rocks and mud jutting into the lake, was completed by Smithson in 1970, three years before he died in a plane crash. The State of Utah, which must approve any plan for drilling in the area, decided recently to extend a period for public comment on the proposal until Feb. 13. John Harja, who runs the stateâs public land policy coordinating office, said on Tuesday that the office had received 900 letters, e-mail messages and calls about the issue in the last several days. Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, issued a statement calling the jetty âa significant cultural siteâ and saying that the trust was âdeeply concerned about the potential harm that energy development could bringâ to it.
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In a win for environmentalists, the   U.S. Interior Department says it is willing to withdraw   sensitive wetlands from a large area in Alaska's western Arctic   region that it wanted to open next week to oil and natural gas   drilling.
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Seasonal changes in the economy are not unique to Alaska. But winter in the state often tests the ingenuity of business owners.
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The US offers rights for oil and gas in an area of north-western Alaska renowned for its wildlife.