Tag: Alaska

Opportunities in the melting Arctic

Zach Halaschak · May 17, 2019 12:00 am

Emergency response crews transport an injured passenger to an ambulance at the George Inlet Lodge docks, Monday, May 13, 2019, in Ketchikan, Alaska.

5 dead, 1 missing after floatplane collision in Alaska

Diana Stancy Correll · May 14, 2019 2:26 am

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy.

Republican governor seeks for Alaska to be first state to get Medicaid as a block grant

Kimberly Leonard · April 4, 2019 1:21 pm

"You hear a lot out in the press that we don't hold people accountable. Yes, we do." (iStock)

National Security

Soldier killed in live-fire training exercise in Alaska

Caitlin Yilek · April 2, 2019 12:08 pm

View of a drilling rig at the Val Gamburtseva oil fields in Russia's Arctic Far North.

Energy and Environment

Court reinstatement of Arctic drilling ban could allow a Democratic president to limit offshore development

Josh Siegel · April 1, 2019 10:36 pm

Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel waits for the start of a radio debate.

Former Democratic senator, 88, eyes 2020 presidential bid to ‘throw a wrench in the gears’

David Mark · March 20, 2019 5:48 pm

Beltway Confidential

Why red states are so happy

Madeline Fry Schultz · March 1, 2019 5:00 am

The Trump administration is moving toward holding lease sales for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Republicans in 2017 were successful in achieving their long-pursued goal to allow energy exploration in the area as part of their tax overhaul legislation.

Beltway Confidential

Now is the time: Open ANWR for incredible energy production

Mark J. Perry · January 8, 2019 5:00 am

DC police charge tour bus driver over deaths of Alaska mayor and her mother

Anna Giaritelli · December 28, 2018 1:40 am

Traffic streaks to and from the U.S. Capitol along Pennsylvania Avenue early in the morning Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 in Washington.

Alaska mayor, mother killed by tour bus on famous DC street

Dominick Mastrangelo · December 21, 2018 4:05 pm

Republicans in Congress have long pressed to allow energy exploration in a 1.5 million-acre section of the Alaskan refuge, where billions of barrels of oil lie beneath the refuge's coastal plain. (AP Photo/Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, File)

Energy and Environment

Trump takes big step toward drilling in Alaska’s Arctic refuge

Josh Siegel · December 20, 2018 7:40 pm

This aerial photo shows damage on Vine Road, south of Wasilla, Alaska, after earthquakes Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings Friday in Anchorage and the surrounding area, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for islands and coastal areas south of the city.

Hundreds of aftershocks shake Alaskans following big quake

Associated Press · December 1, 2018 7:07 pm