Gwich’in leaders are renewing their legal challenge to protect the Arctic Refuge and the Porcupine caribou herd that has ...

The herd that roams between northeastern Alaska and northwestern Canada is down in size from the all-time high counted in ...

The challenge targets an Interior fossil fuel development program that scrapped protections implemented under the Biden ...

A U.S. District Court judge in Anchorage has ruled against the state of Alaska in an 11-year-old legal dispute that has significant implications for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and state ...

Alaska’s state-owned investment bank could get permission to start oil exploration work in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as soon as the third quarter of this year, according to court documents ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups today brought new legal claims in an ongoing lawsuit challenging the Interior Department’s ...

Brookfield Zoo, which has cared for generations of polar bears, hopes to offer guidelines for an area where mothers den at ...

Trump administration finalizes Arctic Refuge drilling plan Move fulfills GOP pledge to expand U.S. energy production Gwich’in communities oppose drilling on sacred lands Conservationists vow lawsuits ...

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An Alaska development agency is seeking bids from companies to prepare for seismic testing that could one day lead to oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Alaska Industrial ...

In the first few hours of his second presidency, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that could pave the way for oil drilling in North Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the ...