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A federal judge is sending Interior Department officials back to the drawing board after concluding a Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale didn’t adequately consider the possible impacts on endangered beluga whales in the area. The ruling temporarily suspends a lease held by dominant Cook Inlet producer Hilcorp. The privately held Texas-based oil and…

A citizen review board would be staffed by professional investigators who would be guided by a board made up of Anchorage residents.

The Daily News has printed six days a week since 2017, when it eliminated its Saturday edition.

Since taking the job in November, Sharon Lechner has flagged a litany of problems in the city’s accounting systems that she said could threaten the city’s credit and saddle taxpayers with expenses they shouldn’t be responsible for.

At Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, about 200 people joined a tour to learn about some of the people who helped build a robust Black presence in Alaska.

She could still go to the Olympics this year, as she’s also set to compete in the 200-meter breaststroke event.

The company, which faced state action in 2019, has abruptly closed its doors this week.

The romance genre is booming, and specialty bookstores are opening around the country.

Despite being ‘disappointed’ by the results, the Department of Natural Resources’ commissioner defends the idea of royalty reductions to encourage more inlet drilling.

When the city determined an unnamed street needed a name to better guide emergency services, it got Janna Wilcox thinking.