Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska businesses can open at full capacity on Friday and sports can resume, Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced Tuesday evening. “Friday, we’re open for business across the state of Alaska,” Dunleavy said at a news conference. Alaska will enter phase three and four of the government’s five-phase simultaneously at 8 a.m. Friday. That means restaurants, bars, gyms, retail shops and other businesses can fully open. All churches, libraries and museums can too. Sports and...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Alaska businesses can open at full capacity on Friday and sports can resume, Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced Tuesday evening. “Friday, we’re open for business across the state of Alaska,” Dunleavy said at a news conference. Alaska will enter phase three and four of the government’s five-phase simultaneously at 8 a.m. Friday. That means restaurants, bars, gyms, retail shops and other businesses can fully open. All churches, libraries and museums can too. Sports and...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said Friday that it’s searching for a troublesome black bear in East Anchorage’s Russian Jack Springs Park. The bear has recently gained a reputation for charging people and following kids at camp.LISTEN TO THIS STORY: Six-year-old twins Ethan and August Shroyer remember yelling when they spotted a black bear last Wednesday at day camp.“I tried to be brave,” Ethan said, “but my bones were shaking like I was scared.”Ethan and August were...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said Friday that it’s searching for a troublesome black bear in East Anchorage’s Russian Jack Springs Park. The bear has recently gained a reputation for charging people and following kids at camp.LISTEN TO THIS STORY: Six-year-old twins Ethan and August Shroyer remember yelling when they spotted a black bear last Wednesday at day camp.“I tried to be brave,” Ethan said, “but my bones were shaking like I was scared.”Ethan and August were...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.ConocoPhillips announced Thursday that it will cut oil production in Alaska by about 100,000 barrels per day for the month of June in response to “unacceptably low oil prices.”That’s about half of Conoco’s daily production in the state, and roughly a fifth of the crude that typically flows down the trans-Alaska pipeline. Conoco is Alaska’s largest oil producer.“It’s incredibly significant,” said Kara Moriarty, chief executive of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, an industry trade...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.ConocoPhillips announced Thursday that it will cut oil production in Alaska by about 100,000 barrels per day for the month of June in response to “unacceptably low oil prices.”That’s about half of Conoco’s daily production in the state, and roughly a fifth of the crude that typically flows down the trans-Alaska pipeline. Conoco is Alaska’s largest oil producer.“It’s incredibly significant,” said Kara Moriarty, chief executive of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, an industry trade...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Four oilfield service companies have alerted the state of sweeping layoffs at their North Slope operations as the coronavirus crushes demand for fuel, oil prices crash and drilling activity declines. The job cuts announced in Alaska include 63 layoffs at Baker Hughes, 81 at the Schlumberger Technology Corp., about 80 at Halliburton Energy Services and more than 50 at the Peak Oilfield Service Co., according to over the past month, the most recent filed Monday.“I think that’s...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Four oilfield service companies have alerted the state of sweeping layoffs at their North Slope operations as the coronavirus crushes demand for fuel, oil prices crash and drilling activity declines. The job cuts announced in Alaska include 63 layoffs at Baker Hughes, 81 at the Schlumberger Technology Corp., about 80 at Halliburton Energy Services and more than 50 at the Peak Oilfield Service Co., according to over the past month, the most recent filed Monday.“I think that’s...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.BP’s sale of its entire Alaska business to Hilcorp is in jeopardy, As oil prices crater, banks are hesitant to finance the $5.6 billion deal, the newspaper says.It’s the largest deal in the world involving oil and gas production assets that has yet to close, the WSJ reports. It includes BP’s stakes in the massive Prudhoe Bay oil field and the trans-Alaska pipeline. BP and Hilcorp have said they expect the deal to close this summer.However, citing people familiar with the deal,...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.BP’s sale of its entire Alaska business to Hilcorp is in jeopardy, As oil prices crater, banks are hesitant to finance the $5.6 billion deal, the newspaper says.It’s the largest deal in the world involving oil and gas production assets that has yet to close, the WSJ reports. It includes BP’s stakes in the massive Prudhoe Bay oil field and the trans-Alaska pipeline. BP and Hilcorp have said they expect the deal to close this summer.However, citing people familiar with the deal,...WW…

President Joe Biden imposed a “temporary moratorium” on all oil and gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge shortly after taking office on Wednesday, citing the “alleged legal deficiencies underlying the program” and the inadequacy of a required environmental review.Biden’s move to slam the brakes on drilling in the northeast Alaska refuge is among a list of executive orders the newly-inaugurated president swiftly signed to.The new moratorium comes a day after the Trump administration announced, in its final moments, that it had finalized nine 10-year leases for oil...…President Joe Biden imposed a “temporary moratorium” on all oil and gas leasing activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge shortly after taking office on Wednesday, citing the “alleged legal deficiencies underlying the program” and the inadequacy of a required environmental review.Biden’s move to slam the brakes on drilling in the northeast Alaska refuge is among a list of executive orders the newly-inaugurated president swiftly signed to.The new moratorium comes a day after the Trump administration announced, in its final moments, that it had finalized nine 10-year leases for oil...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.On President Trump’s last full day in office, his administration announced that it officially issued leases for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.The leases were signed on Thursday, about a week after the first-ever oil lease sale in the Arctic refuge’s coastal plain, according to Lesli Ellis-Wouters, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska.RELATED:Groups opposed to drilling in the refuge blasted the Trump administration on Tuesday for issuing the...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.On President Trump’s last full day in office, his administration announced that it officially issued leases for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.The leases were signed on Thursday, about a week after the first-ever oil lease sale in the Arctic refuge’s coastal plain, according to Lesli Ellis-Wouters, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska.RELATED:Groups opposed to drilling in the refuge blasted the Trump administration on Tuesday for issuing the...WW…

Alaska’s state-owned development corporation can now spend up to $20 million to buy oil leases in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.The board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority .“I believe resource development is our future,” said AIDEA board member Albert Fogle. “A stronger resource development industry will trickle down into the other industries.” The idea is that AIDEA could buy the drilling rights to tracts of land offered in the Trump administration’s lease sale on Jan. 6. And then, at some point, partner with companies to do the...…Alaska’s state-owned development corporation can now spend up to $20 million to buy oil leases in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.The board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority .“I believe resource development is our future,” said AIDEA board member Albert Fogle. “A stronger resource development industry will trickle down into the other industries.” The idea is that AIDEA could buy the drilling rights to tracts of land offered in the Trump administration’s lease sale on Jan. 6. And then, at some point, partner with companies to do the...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants the state government to sever its ties with financial institutions that won’t finance oil and gas development in the Arctic.Dunleavy announced in a news release Monday that his administration will introduce a bill during the upcoming legislative session that would require state departments and agencies to end any existing relationships with the businesses.The proposed move by Dunleavy follows a string of announcements from major banks and lenders that say...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants the state government to sever its ties with financial institutions that won’t finance oil and gas development in the Arctic.Dunleavy announced in a news release Monday that his administration will introduce a bill during the upcoming legislative session that would require state departments and agencies to end any existing relationships with the businesses.The proposed move by Dunleavy follows a string of announcements from major banks and lenders that say...WW…

Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is still on, but teams are no longer headed on a 1,000-mile trail to Nome.Iditarod officials announced Friday that mushers and their sled dogs will instead travel on a roughly 860-mile loop that starts and ends in Willow. Their turn-around spot will be near the mining ghost town of Flat.The revised race route is among to the event triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, race officials say.All mushers must also test negative for the coronavirus...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is still on, but teams are no longer headed on a 1,000-mile trail to Nome.Iditarod officials announced Friday that mushers and their sled dogs will instead travel on a roughly 860-mile loop that starts and ends in Willow. Their turn-around spot will be near the mining ghost town of Flat.The revised race route is among to the event triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, race officials say.All mushers must also test negative for the coronavirus...WW…