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CAMPAIGN 2018: Don Young opponent hopes Alaskans are ready for switch

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Since Rep. Don Young (R) first took office in 1973, the Alaska Democratic Party has thrown almost two dozen challengers into the ring against the incumbent. Independent candidate Alyse Galvin insists she's different from the other contenders. → Read More

ALASKA: Salmon initiative draws a powerful foe: Oil, mining money

Alaska is in the midst of a divisive civil war over a ballot initiative that pits the state's revered wild salmon fisheries against its powerful oil and mining industries. → Read More

ALASKA: Walker endorses Begich as he exits governor race

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) dropped his bid for re-election Friday, three days after Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott (D) resigned and withdrew from the campaign for making what the governor's office described as an "inappropriate overture" to a woman. → Read More

CAMPAIGN 2018: Political novice has sights on Don Young

Alyse Galvin, who is running against Rep. Don Young (R) for Alaska's at-large congressional seat, went to a recent Anchorage Chamber of Commerce debate loaded for bear. → Read More

GAS EXPORTS: Alaska megaproject hits financial headwinds as elections loom

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The blueprint to finance and build a $44 billion liquefied natural gas export project is coming under fire at a time when people here are gearing up for a governor's race that could throw the project's future into question. → Read More

OIL AND GAS: Trump's energy focus raises hopes in Alaska

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker (I) first grasped the dramatic changes in store for his state under the Trump administration when he attended an inaugural event early this year. As Walker and his wife began to leave a late-night reception, they bumped into Ryan Zinke, whom President Trump had already selected to head the Interior Department. → Read More

ARCTIC: Alaska may ask Trump to allow ANWR studies

The state of Alaska is considering a renewed effort to answer the decades-old question of how much oil is actually available in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. → Read More

PIPELINES: The long (long) road to a famous dead end

DEADHORSE, Alaska -- No one comes to Deadhorse by mistake. Most tourists simply want to find out what's at the end of America's northernmost road. → Read More

PIPELINES: Dependency, disaster, decline: Downsides of a megaproject

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — On Aug. 1, 1977, the oil tanker Arco Juneau sailed out of the port of Valdez carrying the first load of Prudhoe Bay oil to a refinery on the West Coast. The ship's departure marked the triumphant end to Alaska's nine-year transformation from an insolvent, frontier territory into an oil state. The oil flowing from the state's frigid North Slope along the 800-mile Trans-Alaska… → Read More

PIPELINES: How Spiro Agnew helped save the Trans-Alaska project

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In 1968, ARCO and Humble Oil and Refining Co. announced the discovery of 21 billion barrels of oil in place at Alaska's Prudhoe Bay field, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Independent analysts concluded that as much as 10 billion barrels could be recovered from the reservoir. It was and remains the biggest oil find in North America. → Read More

PIPELINES: Big finds, bitter clashes and NEPA: The tale of Trans-Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — It was billed as the biggest private construction project in the history of America and became the guinea pig for a brand-new National Environmental Policy Act. Over its 40-year history, it helped shape and define the nation's 49th state. Meet the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. → Read More

OIL: With new actions, Zinke says Alaska is 'open for business'

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Trump administration announced a series of steps yesterday designed to kick-start oil drilling on federal lands in Alaska and to reject the land preservation policies adopted under former President Obama. → Read More

ARCTIC COUNCIL: U.S. agrees only to acknowledge Paris Agreement exists

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — The United States ended its chairmanship of the Arctic Council yesterday amid growing international alarm that President Trump may pull out of the Paris accord on climate change. → Read More

ARCTIC: Council nations clash with U.S. over climate

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Diplomats from eight Arctic nations are facing a standoff today over the Trump administration's efforts to downplay the importance of climate change in an Arctic Council ministerial statement marking the end of the United States' two-year council chairmanship. → Read More

NATURAL GAS: Alaska brings ambitious LNG export project to FERC

The state of Alaska plans to submit an application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today for construction of a $40 billion to $45 billion pipeline and export project aimed at commercializing the state's giant North Slope natural gas reserve. → Read More