The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It’s also home to enormous deposits of copper, gold and molybdenum that have been ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday effectively vetoed a proposed copper and gold mine in a remote region of southwest Alaska that is coveted by mining interests but that also ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday morning that it is effectively killing the controversial Pebble mine project in Southwest Alaska. The decision caps a decades-long battle ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took an unusually strong step Tuesday and blocked a proposed mine heralded by backers as the most significant undeveloped copper ...

The Environmental Protection Agency used the Clean Water Act on Monday to veto a proposed copper and gold mining project near Alaska's Bristol Bay. Not only does the veto apply to the Pebble mine ...

Juneau and Fairbanks converged for the 7th Annual Pioneers of Alaska Solstice Stampede at the Clayton Dairy-Aire Meadow in McCarthy, Alaska. The Pioneers were joined by members of the Recreational ...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Alaska's bid to revive a proposed copper and gold mine that was blocked by the Environmental Protection Agency. The justices did not comment in turning away ...

The proposed Pebble Mine, located in southwest Alaska near Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, would have extracted minerals from one of the largest copper and gold deposits in the world.

She was watching the child while the mother worked in rural Alaska at a mine. Wilson was last seen ... in the search were asked to check in at the Stampede Road staging area in Healy and prepare ...

Contango helped successfully develop another property, Manh Choh, in Alaska's Interior — the first large mine to open in the state in more than a decade. (Contango Ore photo) ...

Mary Peltola in 2022, when she ran for office as an opponent of the Donlin Creek Mine (Liz Ruskin) Congresswoman Mary Peltola has joined Alaska's U.S senators on a legal brief in support of the ...