A vessel approaches Hilcorp’s Tyonek offshore platform in Cook Inlet, where the company was using the Spartan 151 drilling rig last summer. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal) One way out of ...

Beluga whales are some of the most distinctive marine mammals, with their white bodies and rounded foreheads. They are also well-known for their vocalizations, which have led to them being called the ...

JUNEAU — Several measures intended to address a looming shortfall of Cook Inlet gas are being rushed through committees as the end of the Alaska Legislature’s regular session fast approaches.

The lease sale comes as Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration push to ramp up oil offerings in Alaska. The results of an oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet will be announced ...

A natural gas leak in Cook Inlet has finally been repaired, more than three months after it began. The oil and gas company Hilcorp said a dive team managed to install a clamp on its pipeline late ...

The Kenai Peninsula’s Cook Inletkeeper joined a lawsuit last month opposing the proposed Johnson Tract gold mine project on the west side of the Cook Inlet in Southcentral Alaska. Also listed as ...

Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...

A natural gas pipeline has been leaking since at least late December into Alaska's Cook Inlet, home of endangered beluga whales, and the company says it can't safely stop the flow of gas. Credit: ...

Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...