A planned budget increase for K-12 public school spending is expected to significantly reduce the Permanent Fund dividend.

The state faces a nearly $200 million deficit to maintain essentially status-quo spending, leaving lawmakers with hard ...

U.S. oil and gas companies are unlikely to expand development in Alaska and the Arctic following President Donald Trump's executive order enabling them to do so, company officials and industry ...

Republicans opened up portions of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge for drilling to pay for about $1 billion of Trump’s tax first cuts. But oil and gas companies already producing record ...

The lawsuit targeted a now-defunct moratorium on drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

President-elect Donald Trump is set to declare a national energy emergency on Day 1 of his return to power, part of his ...

The Russian Empire, driven by the fur trade, the spread of Orthodox Christianity, and the lure of taxes and resources ... it was revealed that Alaska held vast reserves of oil and natural gas.

One of the plethora of executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska. While state political leaders ...

President Donald Trump's expansive executive order aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska is being cheered by state political leaders who see new fossil fuel ...

Drilling in the Arctic and Alaska is a high-risk endeavor ... the local ecosystem and wildlife. A 2017 tax law during Trump's first term mandated oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National ...

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