The comment period on the proposed 11th National OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program closes Friday. Read Story ...

Beaufort and Chukchi seas, as well as Cook Inlet for rampant oil and gas drilling.  To expand current drilling off Alaska’s ...

The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources ...

The agency alleges an environmental study by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was conducted with a “serious” lack of transparency.

Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. The Trump administration is planning an oil and gas lease sale in federal territory of the inlet. It is set to be the first of ...

Along the pristine west side of lower Cook Inlet lies Tuxedni Bay, the only known winter feeding ground for the inlet’s critically endangered beluga whales. Cook Inlet belugas are irreplaceable, ...

SAN ANTONIO, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SeaWorld commemorates five years since a community of conservation groups came together to complete the first-ever rescue and rehabilitation of an endangered ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Several groups and an Alaska resident filed suit today to protect endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and the Johnson River, which flows through Lake Clark National Park before ...

Alaska’s salmon season is largely over. However, commercial fishermen on the southern Kenai Peninsula are reflecting on a year marked by declining catches and higher costs. That includes first-year ...

A federal judge has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s new system to manage commercial harvests in federal waters of Cook Inlet, concluding that the agency has no obligation to extend that ...

Air Force engineers and archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a food cache on the Upper Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage used 1,000 years ago to store salmon, moose, caribou, and berries. “This is ...

The Trump administration on Monday outlined its plans to auction 1 million acres of federal offshore territory in what it has called the “Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale.” The lease ...