Spurred in part by momentum around ConocoPhillips’ Willow project, oil companies poured record-setting money into federal ...

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has tentatively decided that oil and gas exploration should be allowed on state land in the vicinity of the Yukon River. In a public notice published March ...

Backers say ensures the state gets a fair deal if a North Slope gas pipeline moves forward. Others worry the bill, even if it ...

Oil companies bid on more than 1 million acres in the first lease sale in the Western Arctic since 2019. The tracts included areas where leasing appears to be prohibited.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A caribou in the Teshekpuk herd is seen on June 27, 2014, in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. (Photo by Bob Wick/U.S.

FILE - In this undated photo, provided by the United States Geological Survey, permafrost forms a grid-like pattern in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, managed by the Bureau of Land Management ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Conservation groups and an Iñupiat-aligned group sued Thursday to overturn the recent approval of an exploratory drilling program in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, saying ...