Is geothermal energy safe? How does it work? And what areas of Alaska could most benefit from it?

The startup planning the operation near the North Slope oil fields would power its computers not with coal but with another fossil fuel: natural gas that’s currently going unused.

Petitions to cap the property tax rate, remove sales tax on food and utilities and make in-person voting the default again will have 10 more days to get signatures.

The Department of the Interior is planning to lift some restrictions on development within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

The Job Corps Center in Palmer hosts 160 students from across the state and has 111 local employees.

Sitka voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have capped the number of cruise visitors beginning next year.

Many communities along Alaska’s southern coast are dependent on state ferries to get around and to fuel their economies. But those ferries move thanks to teams of on-board engineers, who say they are critically understaffed.

Alaska’s Legislature adjourned last week without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as urgent: expanding access to commercial fishing careers.

If Senate Bill 39 isn't vetoed, it would remove payday lenders from an exemption in state lending laws and cap interest rates and fees for loans of $25,000 or less.

Would-be homebuyers are finding lots of reasons to wait.

Some Assembly members say the change would allow residents to exempt food and utilities from local taxes while keeping the city’s overall sales tax revenue mostly intact.

They've worked for decades to advance Alaska oil development. Pearce has been a legislator, federal appointee and consultant. Moriarty has led an oil industry trade association.