ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Trump administration today approved a deal trading away federal lands to pave the way for building a road through the center of Alaska’s Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil ...

A U.S. Senate committee has proposed selling more than 3 million acres of public lands in Alaska and several other Western states to support new housing development. The idea has alarmed conservation ...

The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge ...

The idea is to spark development in housing-strapped communities including Anchorage, Fairbanks, Seward and Cordova.

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Thursday announced steps to open up more acreage for oil and gas leasing and lift restrictions on building an LNG pipeline and ...

The Trump administration is opening up more drilling in a contentious Alaskan wildlife refuge that was restricted under the Biden administration. It’s also approving two other contentious projects ...

Rep. Nick Begich derided an “unelected Cubicle Army” in seeking to overturn the plan. Alaska lawmakers have introduced legislation to strike down a Biden-era land use plan that would tie up acreage ...

Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and ...

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, ...