Two major utilities in Anchorage are expanding their natural gas storage in reservoirs in the Cook Inlet region to help counteract a shortage of locally produced gas that’s the dominant energy source ...

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 ...

Natural gas production from offshore platforms in Cook Inlet, outside of Anchorage, has declined over the past several decades. The area's dominant producer, Hilcorp, has warned electric and heating ...

Companies will soon be able to bid on opportunities to tap a volcanic island in Cook Inlet to generate renewable energy. Alaska officials have scheduled a geothermal lease sale covering a little more ...

The feared energy crisis in Anchorage offers a lesson in the downsides of relying on fossil fuels. The feared energy crisis in Anchorage offers a lesson in the downsides of relying on fossil fuels. A ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Several groups and an Alaska resident filed suit today to protect endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and the Johnson River, which flows through Lake Clark National Park before ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An oil tanker being loaded with fuel at a refinery broke free of its moorings in the Cook Inlet port of Nikiski and drifted until it went aground about a half mile away, its owners ...

COOK INLET, Alaska — For almost as long as it has been a state, Alaska has been powered by the natural gas buried beneath Cook Inlet, an estuary on its southern coast. The gas used to be so plentiful ...