ANCHORAGE, Alaska — State transportation officials have shut down the 400-mile road to Alaska’s oil fields after “a significant flooding event,” washouts and erosion across a broad stretch ...

In the last 14 months, four men have died while working in the oil fields on the North Slope. Before that, the area hadn’t seen a death in about five years, according to Anchorage Daily News ...

Pipelines at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope on Friday, May 22, 2015. (Loren Holmes / ADN) The trans-Alaska oil pipeline is now moving less than a fourth of the oil it did in the 1980s when ...

Road traffic has long posed a challenge to caribou on the North Slope. For decades, there has been a standard for oil field traffic heavy enough to disturb the animals: 15 vehicles per hour.

May 24—A worker was killed at an Alaska oil field over the weekend, the third workplace fatality in the North Slope oil industry in 13 months. Randy Lytle, 62, was an employee of MagTec Alaska.

Jun. 16—State transportation officials have shut down the 400-mile road to Alaska's oil fields due to "a significant flooding event," washouts and erosion across a broad stretch between ...

A caribou from the Central Arctic herd crosses a road within the Kuparuk oil field on the North Slope of Alaska in the summer of 2019, during the mosquito harassment period.