North Slope

Wright and Dunleavy insist the Alaska LNG project is alive

At an Anchorage conference, the U.S. energy secretary and Gov. Dunleavy insisted the stalled Alaska LNG project is alive, pointing at different obstacles.

by Bill AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

The pipeline's owners want another 30 years, seven years before they have to ask

The trans-Alaska pipeline's owners want another 30 years on federal land, seven years before they need to ask. Scoping comment closes Sept. 10.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Utqiagvik council weighs finance and executive director appointments

The Utqiagvik City Council will vote Thursday on new appointments for two top administrative offices, a finance director and an executive director, with no explanation given in the agenda for the changes.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Utqiaġvik hears a marijuana tax rise from 8% to 10% tonight, and voters decide Oct. 6

Utqiaġvik City Council hears a proposal tonight to raise the marijuana sales tax from 8% to 10%, with voters deciding Oct. 6.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Follows: Utqiagvik weighs a change to how it taxes marijuana

Nikiski inventor patents heated tailgate to keep drill slurry from freezing

A Nikiski oilfield-services president earned a patent for a heated tank door that keeps drilling waste from freezing before crews can dump it.

by Alaska News2mo ago2 min read

Snow expected tonight at Atigun Pass, the high point of the Dalton Highway

Snow is expected at Atigun Pass tonight, 1 to 3 inches, with 3 to 6 inches on the peaks. BLM says storms drop snow there even in June and July.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Dalton Highway repairs begin Wednesday, narrowing it to one lane

Dalton Highway repairs at Milepost 315 start Wednesday with 24-hour flagging and up to 20-minute delays, narrowing the North Slope's main supply route to one lane.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Wainwright's fuel tank ran dry and the airlift is weathered in

Wainwright's fuel day tank ran empty Monday morning. An airlift of 80 drums sits loaded in Anchorage, waiting on a safe weather window north.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Hilcorp wants to dig a 95-acre gravel pit near the Putuligayuk River

Hilcorp wants to dig a 95-acre gravel pit near the Putuligayuk River on the North Slope. Two-thirds of it would be permanent. Comment closes Sept. 4.

by Bill AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

An Anchorage supplier shrank to six employees, and now it stocks federal Alaska

The Anchorage company filling federal orders for pens and clipboards had six employees in mid-2022. It now holds GSA and Navy work worth tens of millions.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Alaska has spent a fifth of its open federal disaster money, with six weeks on the clock

Alaska holds $357.7 million in open federal disaster grants and has spent about a fifth. One 2015 North Slope grant has paid out $6,176 in eleven years.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Three Alaska Native groups demand answers on rural election staffing before Tuesday's primary

Three Alaska Native groups are demanding the state account for unfilled rural election-worker jobs and pay overdue per diem before Tuesday's primary, citing past precincts that never opened.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

State's latest fuel survey put Alaska gasoline at $6.63 a gallon, and it is seven months old

State fuel data shows Alaska gasoline averaged 6.63 dollars in January. This report is seven months old and prices have risen.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Bristol Bay Native Corporation, pne of Alaska's largest companies, is remaking part of its top leadership

Bristol Bay Native Corporation, one of Alaska's largest companies, is remaking its top ranks, moving new leaders into its chief operating and financial roles.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

An Iñupiaq village corporation from Wainwright is plugging orphaned wells in Wyoming

Olgoonik, an Iñupiaq village corporation from Wainwright now grown into a global federal contractor, won a $210K contract to plug abandoned wells in Wyoming.

by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Two seats open on Utqiagvik scholarship committee, letters due Sept. 17

Utqiagvik is seeking two volunteers for its scholarship committee, with applications due Sept. 17.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Heat advisory warns of 80 degrees near Umiat Sunday afternoon

National Weather Service issued a heat advisory for the area near Umiat forecasting 80 degrees Sunday afternoon, though no North Slope villages fall within the warning zone.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Alaska takes a first step toward new air permits for Hilcorp's Nikaitchuq oil field

Alaska took a first step toward new air permits for Hilcorp's Nikaitchuq oil field, as North Slope officials push for air monitoring in nearby villages.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readFrom Aug 9

The Air Force needs its Cold War-era Arctic radar towers inspected — the ones still watching Alaska's skies

The Air Force needs four Cold War-era Alaska radar towers inspected — 1950s sites still watching the Arctic, run by an Alaska Native corporation.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago2 min read

Deadhorse airport upgrade will fill nearly 79 acres of wetlands with no mitigation

A Deadhorse Airport upgrade at the North Slope's oil-field gateway will fill nearly 79 acres of wetlands — with no mitigation planned, the state says, for lack of any local program to do it through.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Peltola's energy platform draws fire from both sides in the race

Mary Peltola rolled out an energy platform in her Senate race against Dan Sullivan, drawing rebuttals from his campaign and from Alaska environmental groups.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

A retiring Arctic judge's cases are in limbo, with no one scheduling hearings

A retiring Arctic judge's caseload has been moved to an unassigned docket with no one scheduling hearings, and the court hasn't said how the region's cases proceed.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Four wildfires broke out on the North Slope within 17 minutes Thursday

Four wildfires broke out on Alaska's North Slope within 17 minutes Thursday, across 40 miles of tundra, the kind of lightning-driven cluster expected to grow as the Arctic warms.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Hilcorp says opposing the tax isn't opposing the gas line

Hilcorp told the gas-line caucus that opposing a targeted tax on the company isn't opposing the pipeline, even as that tax deadlocks the bill in Juneau.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago3 min read

Alaska Native-serving schools vie for $10 million in training money

Alaska Native-serving colleges and trade schools have until Aug. 24 to compete for up to $10 million in federal money to train skilled workers.

by Melinda Communities.News3mo ago1 min read

Kaktovik residents press North Slope Borough on cracked homes

Kaktovik and Nuiqsut residents told the North Slope Borough Assembly that homes are cracking and settling, and asked for repairs and new programs to address the damage.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago4 min read

A Hilcorp gravel-mine permit reflects the North Slope's expanding oil footprint

Hilcorp wants a new North Slope gravel mine — one small permit amid a gravel-demand surge as Arctic oil development expands and converts wetlands, one project at a time.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Alaska's freight system was built to ship oil out. Now it's about getting packages in.

Alaska's freight network is shifting from moving oil out to bringing online-shopping deliveries in, as pipeline throughput slides and e-commerce surges through Anchorage.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Legislators to hear the case for a gas line as the effort stalls

A minority caucus will host an Anchorage gasline listening session with only supporters, as the effort sits stalled in a third special session with no bill.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

Utqiagvik weighs a change to how it taxes marijuana

Utqiaġvik might tax your weed. The council won't say how much, and neither will the packet.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago1 min read

The state is being asked to bank on a gas line price it may never fully see

Alaska is weighing tax breaks and $800 million for a gas pipeline whose developer says the true cost may never be public. Its disclosed estimate already jumped $10 billion.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read

North Slope phone co-op moves to keep its Deadhorse airport site

The North Slope's phone co-op wants five more years for its tower and shop on Deadhorse Airport land, a no-bid extension of an existing $14,250-a-year lease.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

A North Slope river keeps chewing toward the pipeline, and Alyeska keeps armoring it

For the second time this year, Alyeska wants to stack rock along the Sagavanirktok River to keep it from eroding toward the buried Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Oil-company seismic data is going public — the price of a state tax credit

Oil-company seismic surveys from Cook Inlet and the North Slope are going public — the eventual price of the state tax credits that funded them — as companies hunt for new gas in a declining basin.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago2 min read

Retiring judge's Arctic caseload lands in an unassigned court queue

A retiring Arctic judge's entire caseload but eight cases now sits in an unassigned queue, with no new judge named and no word on hearing dates across three hub communities.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago1 min read

It's July, and it's snowing on the road to the Arctic

It's late July and it's snowing on Atigun Pass — the 4,739-foot Brooks Range crossing that's the only road to Alaska's North Slope.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Draft settlement would protect ANWR leasing terms

A draft settlement would bar Washington from shrinking ANWR leasing below what Congress required, a win the state and Kaktovik's drilling backers wanted.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

The North Slope's fuel farms sit on thawing ground

The state is renewing spill plans for eight North Slope fuel farms sitting on ground that is thawing and eroding out from under them.

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

North Slope Police shooting in Utqiagvik under state investigation

North Slope Borough police shot and killed a 25-year-old Utqiagvik man early Thursday. State investigators say he pointed a rifle at officers.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

NWS warns of snow, ice risk at Atigun Pass and along Dalton Highway tonight

Surprise Surprise, snow in Atigun Pass

by Maggie AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read