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In Alaska, the money is to address previously declared fishery disasters for Bering Sea snow crab and Chignik and Cook Inlet salmon harvests.

Alaska Native tribes asked a federal judge on Tuesday to toss the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of a gold mining project that would bring industrial suction dredging to a pristine northwestern Alaska estuary.

The state says the program is necessary for the recovery of a caribou herd, but environmentalists said recovery shouldn't come at the expense of the bears.

The lawsuit follows the decision by the Department of the Interior last month to revoke protections of land alongside the Trans-Alaskan pipeline.

Conservation groups in Alaska challenged the state Board of Game’s authorization for the unlimited killing of black and brown bears in southwestern Alaska on Monday for a second time.

A dispute between the state of Alaska and the federal government over who has the rights to 20,000 acres of land in the northwest corner of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been decided.

Happy holiday! What holiday, you ask? Why it’s Seward’s Day, of course. I know, it’s only celebrated in Alaska. But I could use a day off, so I’m partying like it’s 1999! Well, actually – like it's 1867!

The lawsuit alleges that the Bureau of Land Management failed to take a "hard look" at the impact ConocoPhillips' drilling project will have on the environment.

Bending to the economic interest in exploiting Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope, the move undercuts a Biden campaign promise to stop new oil drilling on federal lands.

Though the project has broad support from elected officials in Alaska, it’s strongly opposed by environmental groups. Some are already planning a lawsuit to block the project.