The sales were authorized in the sweeping 2025 Congressional appropriations legislation H.R. 1 (referred to by the Trump ...

The first of six new oil and gas leases in the Cook Inlet opened for bids Friday morning, announced by the Bureau of Ocean ...

In starkly written order, the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission confirmed a $313,616 fine against Cook Inlet Energy ...

Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. The Trump administration is planning an oil and gas lease sale in federal territory of the inlet. It is set to be the first of ...

SPARTAN 151 RIG, COOK INLET — Deep below the ocean floor outside Anchorage this spring, a huge drill bit chewed through multi-million-year-old sandstone, sending crushed bits of rock back to the ...

Our parents raised us on the north end of Chisik Island in the mouth of Tuxedni Bay on the west side of Cook Inlet. Mom and Dad started setnetting there in 1970. We grew up in a subsistence lifestyle ...

A federal judge has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s new system to manage commercial harvests in federal waters of Cook Inlet, concluding that the agency has no obligation to extend that ...

Federal officials reaffirmed the results of a past oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, setting the stage for further drilling that environmental groups have fought over worries about whales ...

The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources ...

A northern pike is seen swimming in this undated photo. Northern pike are native to much of Alaska, but not to the Southcentral region south of the Alaska Range. Illegal introductions that started in ...

Air Force engineers and archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a food cache on the Upper Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage used 1,000 years ago to store salmon, moose, caribou, and berries. “This is ...

The Trump administration on Monday outlined its plans to auction 1 million acres of federal offshore territory in what it has called the “Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale.” The lease ...