The comment period began on Sept. 18, when the Corps published a notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement for the Arctic Mine, an open-pit copper, zinc and lead project in the foothills of the Brooks Range.

The federal government wants Teck Alaska, the operator of the Red Dog Mine to pay $21,618 for a spill last year that released mine process water into a nearby creek.

Ambler Metals, the company behind the proposed open pit copper and zinc mine, has touted local benefits from the project ranging from construction and mining jobs to new infrastructure and even lower fuel prices.

The March 26 declaration covers Ambler, Buckland, Shungnak and Selawik. Borough officials say they are also working to include Kiana, which experienced a major freeze-up after the city’s water pipes failed.

Northwest Alaska's NANA Regional Corporation was holding what it called an informal meeting for Fairbanks shareholders inside the Westmark Hotel.

On Oct. 22, the board of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, also known as AIDEA, unanimously voted to make the money available to support the 211-mile project, which would connect the Dalton Highway to an undeveloped, mining region near the Brooks Range.

NANA Regional Corp. is supposed to uphold Iñupiat values. Some shareholders say its role in Trump's deportation machinery makes a mockery of that.

The damaged cable left some residents in northern and western Alaska without high speed internet for several weeks.

The group was there to promote Alaska's position as a source of petroleum for export, and to focus on removing barriers to developing the state's energy resources.

Lawmakers want to know if the state is getting taxes it is owed from oil and gas companies.