Gwich’in and environmental opponents celebrate the results, while state officials expect the incoming Trump administration to make it easier to drill in the refuge.

With some projects in development now and a new extraction-friendly administration headed to the white house, will Alaska’s fossil fuel sector boom again?

The state of Alaska has been the biggest fan of oil and gas drilling in the refuge. It says this lease sale is designed to discourage development.

The decision adds to a closure Obama created. It’s not clear Trump can reverse it without an act of Congress. The oil and gas industry is not active in the area.

On a day of choppy political seas, Begich makes it clear he's not there to make waves for the Republican speaker.

Mary Peltola is still in office for one more week, though without the trappings. "Politics is about timing and luck," she says.

The feds say recent one-time funding boosts have more than offset the state's alleged failure to comply with the "maintenance of equity" provision of the American Rescue Plan Act.

Opponents of the death penalty had urged President Biden to take this step, given the number of executions that took place during President-elect Donald Trump's first term.

The bill would repeal benefit reductions affecting people who spent part of their career working for an employer not participating in Social Security, like the state of Alaska.

After two failed attempts, and with just hours to go before a midnight deadline, the House approved a spending bill to fund the government until March 14.

The Alaska Native villages had sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over a telecommunications grant issued without their approval.

The Alaska Air National Guard's 168th Wing at Eielson Air Force Base will be getting four additional air refueling tankers in the near future.