Juneau Independent

Trump appointee threatened sanctions on Canadian halibut exports if the country’s negotiators didn’t accept a cut to the British Columbia catch, according to multiple sources.

Kaktovik Iñupiat Corp. says a seasonal ice and snow road link is unrelated to oil, but needed to reduce costs and improve life in the isolated village A sign in Kaktovik with images of polar bears is seen on Sept. 24, 2018. The village's Native corporation is seeking federal permission for an ice- and snow-road crossing over part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to provide seasonal travel access to Deadhorse. The seasonal road link would enable more affordable shipment

Environmental and tribal groups had challenged a federally approved effort to search for oil in parts of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

In 2025, the state extended its streak of negative net migration to a post-WWII record of 13 years.

Roughly half of Alaska’s school districts qualified for the five-year grant program, which is managed by the state’s education department.

The state agency that protects Alaska’s state-owned oil and gas from waste confirmed Friday that a small North Slope company deliberately burned off state-owned natural gas for almost four months because reinjecting the gas was inconvenient for the company.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management wants to gauge support for what would be the first Alaska Outer Continental Shelf minerals lease sale.

Alaska’s congressional delegation is split on its response to ICE actions in Minneapolis.

Local assistant district attorney says the charge is reasonable because many ICE agents do not wear uniforms.

A smaller substitute will be used as the company develops the Willow Project on Alaska’s North Slope during the winter construction season.

‘We are essentially the same people’

Here’s what’s happening in the Alaska Capitol and elsewhere across the state.