The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Department of Commerce and the National Marine Fisheries Service for not designating critical habitat for threatened ringed and bearded seals.
A preliminary report on the fatal crash in Metlakatla says the pilot had just five hours of floatplane experience when he began company orientation in April.
The deaths of three people in two weeks at Western Alaska jails underscore a perennial problem that rural officials have attempted to address: a lack of public safety personnel and facilities in villages.
Researchers are using data from the “Submit-a-Tick” program to model where non-native ticks might thrive in future decades as climate conditions change.
Ocean researchers are asking themselves if they’re witnessing the transformation of an ecosystem.
Martin Elze took the fossilized woolly mammoth tusk and cut it up to sell for profit.
The closures of the campgrounds, facing the threat of falling trees, likely will last through summer, the state parks division said.
Trump has made it clear since taking office that he intended to dismantle the environmental legacy of Barack Obama, the first president to visit the Arctic while in office.
An Alaska tribe and five environmental groups say the federal government performed inadequate environmental review before approving petroleum exploration in a reserve.
The chairman of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee is calling on the Interior Department to halt work on oil and gas development permits and leases during the partial government shutdown.
Alaska and federal officials have clashed over whether Alaska’s “intensive management” practices would be extended to federal lands.
Jerry Lee Green was still wearing a yellow jail jump suit and carrying court release paperwork when Alaska State Troopers arrested him.
