The lease sale comes as Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration push to ramp up oil offerings in Alaska.

Cook Inlet Tribal Council's Denéłchin Fab Lab offers a hands-on, high-tech space where students can explore STEM by blending innovation, culture and learning in a way that uplifts the whole community.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...