The surplus funding is part of an estimated nearly $600 million in oil revenue this fiscal year.

Final results from Alaska’s August primary election indicate existing coalition majorities in the state House and Senate are likely to continue after November’s general election and could even grow.

Fourth-place finisher Democrat David Leslie withdraws, putting third a Republican — Gerald Heikes — on the November ballot.

Multiple Democrats quit the election ahead of a Monday deadline in order to clear the way for independent Bill Hill.

State officials say they retain the right to build the first 2.8 miles of a road that would run through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge; but road opponents disagree.

With primary election results showing him running behind Democrat Mary Peltola, the incumbent GOP senator is repeatedly invoking the threat of ‘Lower 48 liberal’ influence.

The decision largely upholds a lower court’s ruling the Alaska Division of Elections’ language for Ballot Measure 2, which would overhaul the state elections system.

The U.S. Interior Department is preparing to ease environmental review requirements for some oil and gas exploration activities in Alaska's National Petroleum ​Reserve as part of the Trump administration's push to speed ‌energy development in the Arctic, an Interior spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Forty-nine years after it began transporting crude oil from Prudhoe Bay, the Trans Alaska Pipeline System is due for a regulatory renewal that will allow it to keep operating on federal lands into future decades.

In their first post-primary forum, the top four candidates drew distinctions in their policies on taxes, fiscal issues and governing approaches to Alaska’s top money-making industry.

Nome is one of the most expensive towns in America. Six young women there are hoping to get a minimum wage initiative on the November ballot.

Hundreds of gray whales have turned up dead in recent years on beaches from Mexico to Alaska, and the population dropped by about half over a decade.