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Alaska Natives praise Trump administration's 28,000-acre land transfer that could enable resource development previously blocked by Biden's environmental concerns.
As Kaktovik has seen immense economic and rural growth, leaders in the village see a pathway for oil and gas projects to benefit them even more.
The Trump administration moved to unleash drilling in a region of Alaska on Tuesday that former President Joe Biden targeted ...
In light of this, many Alaska Native youth are dedicating their careers to protecting the environment and bringing Indigenous knowledge into mainstream spaces, including environmental science ...
How Alaska Native youth are protecting the land for their future ancestors was originally published on April 1, 2025, at High Country News. This article was republished by the Alaska Beacon.
With climate change threatening Indigenous lifeways in Alaska, these four young women are devoting their careers to their preservation.
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Thursday announced steps to open up more acreage for oil and gas leasing and lift restrictions on building an LNG pipeline and mining road in Alaska ...
The Department of the Interior recently announced it will open 11.1 million acres of federal land for the Alaska Native Vietnam War-era Veteran Land Allotment Program.
The Alcan Land Port of Entry was built in 1972 and needs new facilities to improve operations and security at the remote U.S.-Canada border crossing.
In the last week of August, the Biden administration finalized protection of 28 million acres of federal land and water in Alaska that is critical for ...
Bureau of Land Management officials had committed to consider lifting restrictions on land use around the Trans-Alaska pipeline. But earlier this year they backtracked, state leaders say.
But it angered Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who has pressed Haaland for more than two years to advance the Trump-era public land orders and finalize approval of the Ambler Road.