A vessel approaches Hilcorp’s Tyonek offshore platform in Cook Inlet, where the company was using the Spartan 151 drilling rig last summer. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal) One way out of ...

A looming shortage of Cook Inlet natural gas means a majority of Alaska residents are likely to see a jump in costs in the coming years to heat and power their homes, according to a new report ...

The state is shutting down most summer king salmon sportfishing around Cook Inlet amid continued declines in the strong, hard-running fish that not that long ago filled freezers and fueled tourism in ...

An unusual offering of royalty-free oil and gas leases in the Cook Inlet basin drew a few bids, with state officials describing the experiment as successful. Bids for six tracts were submitted in the ...

FILE - Visitors to Point Woronzof Park watch the sun set over Cook Inlet and Mount Susitna, on June 7, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, has suspended the lone ...

Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy, flanked by deputies, recently announced part of his proposed incentive package aimed at rejuvenating natural gas production in Cook Inlet, the declining petroleum ...

No companies bid in a federal lease sale mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and only one bid for 20 acres was made as part of Alaska's annual lease sale. A federal lease sale mandated by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A northern pike is seen swimming in this undated photo. (Photo provided by the National Park Service) A northern pike is seen ...

(AP) – The U.S. government on Friday said it received one bid for the right to drill offshore for oil and gas in Alaska’s Cook Inlet near habitat for bears, salmon, humpback whales and endangered ...

In this photo taken Aug. 25, 2017, provided by NOAA Fisheries, a newborn beluga whale calf sticks its head out of the water in upper Cook Inlet, Alaska. The population of endangered beluga whales in ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An environmental review underpinning a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts on endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales, a federal ...