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Environment

In new agreement with state, Indigenous landowners soften resistance to Ambler Road

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Three Alaska Native corporations and the state agency pushing the Ambler Road quietly signed a nonbinding agreement late last year.
Federal Government

Anchorage spent more than $200,000 to support the Trump-Putin summit. Will it get the money back?

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Other cities’ efforts to recoup spending to protect Trump have failed. “We have sent demand letters, phone calls and made public statements. We have received no response.”
Environment

Amid gas crunch, Alaska could revoke leases from a company whose drilling has stalled

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The Dunleavy administration is threatening to strip Texas-based BlueCrest Energy of oil and gas leases near Anchorage, saying it’s failed to advance development that could delay urban Alaska’s impending gas shortage.
Economy

New Alaska Bitcoin mine would use as much power as the state’s largest coal plant produces

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The startup planning the operation near the North Slope oil fields would power its computers not with coal but with another fossil fuel: natural gas that’s currently going unused.
Economy

The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets

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A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.
Commentary

Scores of Alaskans face another eye-watering spike in their health care costs next year. Does anyone care?

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Premiums for Alaska health insurance plans on the federal marketplace have spiked more than 50% over the past three years.
Environment

Hilcorp again eyes Interior Alaska for oil exploration

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Hilcorp has previously explored in the area in a partnership with Doyon, the Native-owned regional corporation for Interior Alaska. 
News

Small Cook Inlet producers say they need state government help before drilling for new natural gas

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One company, Bluecrest, said it will need more support even after a state agency agreed to forgive some $7 million in loans. Another company, HEX, says it needs the state to agree to a royalty reduction before it will drill a well.
Economy

Alaska’s embattled economic development agency signs contracts with seven law firms

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AIDEA has long used outside attorneys. What’s new is selecting firms in advance, which the agency's leader says allows work to happen more quickly than going through the state’s procurement process each time an issue comes up.
News

Alaska lawmakers rejected Dunleavy’s first pick, a talk show host, for a lucrative fish job. His new pick? An ex-talk show host

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Meet Rick Green, the new face of Alaska's fisheries regulation.
Environment

Shell abandons North Slope oil leases, raising questions about the industry’s future in Alaska

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As the world pivots toward lower-carbon energy sources in response to global warming, experts say some of the state’s hard-to-tap oil prospects are becoming less attractive.
Environment

Biden administration advances bid to list Gulf of Alaska king salmon as endangered or threatened

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Experts say that the conservation group’s request, if granted, could force restrictions not just on salmon fishermen but also on activity that affects river habitat, like road and residential construction.
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