Max Graham is the Environment Editor for the Anchorage Press, focusing on fisheries, conservation, and resource policy.
The leading candidate for governor wants to "completely reassess” the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority and the projects it’s funding.
The GOP money matches the more than $1 million that Democratic-aligned groups have put into the race in recent days.
A big breakup leads to a fling with a friend—one week later.
“Oh, gosh. Pee was purple. Poop was purple, for a solid couple days.”
Amid surging interest in Alaska’s minerals, state officials are reporting an “unprecedented” backlog in new mining claims.
Local officials say they weren’t informed before a recent ‘cloud-seeding’ test on the Kenai Peninsula.
The jump in salmon numbers has also inflamed a debate about fishing bans amid reports of illegal harvests.
Currie Dixon is premier of the Yukon Territory. A lot of the issues on his mind might also be on yours.
AIDEA is spending as much as $175 million to look for petroleum in the refuge.
Alaska’s major oil companies, and three municipalities, have filed separate appeals of a state tax board decision that set the value of the pipeline at $13 billion.
The future of Eaglecrest — and Juneau's identity as a ski town — has never been so fraught.
Repsol is emerging as one of the state’s most bullish oil companies.
But the decision is likely to head to be appealed to the courts.
"It’s pretty extreme,” said one longtime Alaska environmental advocate.
AIDEA intends to move ahead with geologic testing on its leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and to bid on new ones in an upcoming federal sale.
Alaska’s economic development agency, AIDEA, wants to conduct geologic testing on its existing oil leases — and to bid on new ones — in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
A legal dispute reflects a new twist to longstanding tensions between Alaska's small-scale miners and federal regulatory agencies.
For years, some of Alaska’s largest mining proposals inched along, unable to attract big investment. Then the price of gold took off.
"I'll kill them all right now, with my bare hands," one mine booster said in a recent video posted online.
The Trump administration could open federal waters off Alaska to mineral leasing, but the effort faces broad opposition.
Two huge companies thought to have little interest in Alaska investment, Shell and ExxonMobil, spent millions to buy new leases on the North Slope — though drilling still faces obstacles.
Red Dog is racing to displace costly diesel with solar power before federal tax credits expire.
John Paulson sold a relatively small stake in Trilogy Metals around the time Trump officials announced a direct government investment in the company.
Lawyers for the Trump administration are defending a Biden-era decision to veto the controversial Pebble project in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.
Northern Journal obtained a copy of a recent agreement between Alaska Native corporations and the state agency pushing the contentious Ambler Road project.
In December, the Interior Department scrapped an agreement with the village of Nuiqsut to restrict oil development near important caribou grounds. Now, the village is suing.
Three Alaska Native corporations and the state agency pushing the Ambler Road quietly signed a nonbinding agreement late last year.
The company said it will replace “The Beast” with another Doyon rig.
“We are essentially the same people."
'Do you want your kids to see a drilling rig right outside your window?' asked one local leader in Nuiqsut.
A recent uptick in sulfur dioxide emissions has fueled health concerns and a public response from the Indigenous-owned corporation that owns the land beneath the mine.
The Eskay Creek project is one of several prospective mines near the British Columbia-Alaska border, where the government and industry have promised new investments.
Contango Ore helped build Alaska’s newest major mine. Its merger with and Dolly Varden Silver comes amid a flurry of deals in the state’s mining industry.
Rusting rivers and huge rainfall have complicated pollution control at Northwest Alaska’s massive zinc mine.
After a blizzard forced an emergency landing in the Bering Strait village of Teller, the pilots have been sampling local delicacies.
An Alaska Native corporation leased mineral rights inside a national park to Contango Ore Inc. The company’s plans are generating opposition from fishermen and conservationists.
The controversy over a typically celebratory honor underscores the intense polarization over resource development in Alaska Native communities.
Litigation, financing and skepticism from Alaska Native landowners still stand in the project's way.
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.
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.
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.
Behold, the slimy sculpin.
A Q&A with two longtime Alaska public radio employees
Opponents cautiously celebrate, but the owner of the mining claims is looking for a new partner.
After a landmark veto, Trump administration officials say they’re “open to reconsideration” and are negotiating a potential settlement of a lawsuit filed by Pebble’s developer.
Demand for low-carbon nuclear energy could boost uranium prospects on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula. But residents of the small village of Elim fear a mine would pollute the river they depend on.
Vancouver, British Columbia, home to dozens of companies searching the world for minerals, has a special interest in the northernmost U.S. state.
A Texas company recently acquired 50 square miles of mining claims across interior Alaska. Now it wants to start trucking antimony — a mineral used in weapons and solar panels — to its processing plant in Montana.
In a remote corner of North America, salmon and mining companies are vying for new territory.
Opponents are celebrating the news as a setback for the Palmer Project near Haines, one of the state’s most advanced — and polarizing — mining projects.
The mining industry’s global quest for cheaper, cleaner power could change how thousands of Alaskans get electricity.
A global mining giant is selling its 50% stake in Donlin Gold. One of the buyers is John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market before the 2008 financial crisis.
New calls to raise Alaska’s mining taxes and royalties come as state officials face difficult fiscal decisions.
“Anyone with an operating gold mine is in a happy spot right now,” said one mining executive.
“Sometimes you’re just never going to have data that says, ‘Yes, that’s what it was,” said a top state regulator.
For Alaska’s eastern neighbors, dual threats of tariffs and annexation still loom.
Amid proposals to electrify Juneau’s cruise docks and build a new hydroelectric plant, one of the area’s major mines has a lot to gain. The other has more to lose.
Teck's Red Dog mine in Northwest Alaska supplies the U.S. with zinc and germanium — but only after those minerals get processed in Canada.
Boosters of a mining road in the backcountry northwest of Anchorage are poised to get a $100,000 federal grant for trail work. Some locals see it as part of an under-the-radar effort to push the road forward.
Touting an unconventional approach, Contango Ore says it can develop mines faster and with a smaller environmental footprint. But some Alaskans fear an influx of ore trucks on state roads.
Red Dog mine, a regional economic linchpin, is running low on ore. With a new permit in hand, the multinational company that operates the project is now moving quickly to try to extend its life.
We've got items on the proposed Ambler road and neighboring mines, a project to research low-carbon fuel that could come from Alaska mines and Indigenous challenges to mining projects in British Columbia and the Nome area.
The Palmer development, near a glacier above the salmon-bearing Chilkat River, has for years fueled political divisions in the town of Haines. Now it's getting a new owner, raising questions about the project's future.
Two Australian companies are pursuing federal funding to jump-start antimony mining near Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Canada’s federal government plans to fund a key road at the Galore Creek development, along a major salmon bearing river that flows into Southeast Alaska near the fishing town of Wrangell.
State fish scientists say the circumstances of the fish kill suggest that it stems from a water quality problem. But regulators say they're still waiting from data from the Kensington gold mine's operator.
Skippers in Prince William Sound and Kodiak say this year's pink harvest is one of the worst they’ve ever seen. “I wake up every morning and I try to apply for a different job," one said.
Officials say cyanide pollution at Victoria Gold’s Eagle Mine poses no health risks to Alaskans. But advocates worry it could compound a yearslong salmon crisis on the Yukon River — and should draw new attention to Canadian mines in areas that drain into Alaska waterways.
With the future of fossil fuels in question, an Australian oil company is branding its new Arctic development as climate-friendly.
