Alaska's Energy Desk

Alaska’s privately owned electric utilities can’t increase their rates overnight. But customers get little say about projects already on the books.

Keith Meyer, the new head of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., is proposing a whole new approach to the natural gas pipeline. Will it work?

Director at the center of Alaska’s fight with producers over North Slope gas marketing resigns

With coastlines eroding, temperatures rising, and sea ice retreating, Alaska is feeling the effects of a warming planet. But a new federal report suggests fisheries in the state haven’t experienced many observable impacts of climate change so far.

The blob is back. The term was coined a few years ago to describe a warm patch of water in the Gulf of Alaska and Northern Pacific Ocean that can turn the weather warm and dry in the state.

The announcement that Alaska will pursue a state-owned natural gas pipeline is a major U-turn after more than a decade of negotiations with the major oil companies. But one person has been advocating this approach all along: Gov. Bill Walker.