Hilcorp’s Spurr platform, photographed last year, has not produced any oil or gas since 1992. (Nathaniel Herz for Alaska Public Media) The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 5—Despite President Donald Trump's promise to "drill, baby, drill," a federal oil and gas auction in Cook Inlet generated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025 (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Low clouds hang over ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— A federally recognized Alaska Native Tribal Nation, along with several community and environmental health and justice groups, notified the Department of the Interior and the Bureau ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lease sale comes as Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration push to ramp up oil offerings in Alaska. The results of an oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet will be announced ...

A federal deadline came and went this week for oil companies to bid on around 1 million acres of drilling territory off Alaska’s Cook Inlet. No one did. “At this time, no bids have been received,” the ...

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 ...