Questions still stir more than two years after the death of a young mechanical engineer near Alaska's North Slope oil fields. Colby Lord, 23, suffered a severe skull fracture on April 15, 2023. A ...

President Donald Trump’s administration and its allies have pushed aggressively for drilling, mining and logging in Alaska.

An Alaska Native entity that had stepped away from the Alaska Federation of Natives in recent years says it has rejoined. The Aleut Corp., representing shareholders from the Aleutian region in Alaska, ...

The Alaska North Slope holds vast quantities of natural gas that occurs along with the long-producing oil fields. Richards, in testimony Monday, said proven resources amount to 40 trillion cubic feet.

When Alaska Natives debate proposals to drill and mine the landscape of the nation’s largest state, it involves more than an ...

Alaska's North Slope is the source for most oil extracted and exported from the state. The quake was 85 miles (137 kilometers) southeast of Deadhorse, where workers fly in for work at oil fields.

KAVIK RIVER CAMP, Alaska – Alaska's North Slope was hit Sunday by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the region, the state's seismologist said. At 6:58 a.m. Sunday, the magnitude 6.4 ...

Alaska’s second North Slope lease sale of the year was a quiet one, garnering just six bids totaling $467,609 for state coffers. Division of Oil and Gas officials announced bids Nov. 3 in the ...

KAVIK RIVER CAMP, Alaska -- Alaska's North Slope was hit Sunday by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the region, the state's seismologist said. At 6:58 a.m. Sunday, the magnitude 6.4 ...

While the North Slope Borough's rate of vaccination for COVID-19 is on par with Anchorage, it's far behind that of other comparable, rural areas off the road system.

November 2017 averaged 17.2°F in Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska, a new monthly record. Utqiaġvik has seen dramatic warming throughout the year, especially in winter.

The North Slope of Alaska was once the last frontier of The Last Frontier, an immense expanse of treeless wilderness inhabited by a few rugged Eskimos and countless Arctic critters. That was ...