Nathaniel Herz

High school boys in one Kuskokwim River village can “forget the muscle cars,” said Barron Sample, principal of the school there. “You get the muscle dogs."

A system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.

Conservation and tribal advocates seeking a crackdown on Bering Sea bycatch are turning their attention to a smaller pollock trawl fishery in Prince William Sound.

It’s standard for politically appointed ambassadors like Mike Sfraga to leave their posts during a presidential transition.

A Hilcorp oil field in Alaska’s Arctic is set to host a tech firm that wants to use natural gas-fired power to mine digital currency.

The Republican governor says Alaska has in excess what the data industry is finding increasingly scarce Outside: land and water.

Oil and gas company Hilcorp appears to be moving toward new oil and gas exploration work in Alaska’s Interior.

When Anchorage’s big electric utility asked regulators’ permission last year to raise its rates by 5.5%, renewable energy advocates responded with a counterproposal.

The incident is sure to draw more scrutiny on the issue of bycatch — the unintended harvest of fish by boats targeting other species.

The president of one of the companies said the utility’s leaders had taken a “scorched earth, take no prisoners, Sherman’s march to the sea” decision-making approach.