In its ongoing search for innovative approaches to issues of culture, the border, climate and international concerns, the Gwich’in Nation is summoning all to its biennial Gwich’in ...

Alaska Representative Don Young was in some kind of mood when he heard—or rather, tried not to hear—Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley's testimony on drilling in the Arctic...

The largest protected wilderness in the United States, Alaska' s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a 19.3 million–acre expanse of roadless terrain roughly the size of South...

The general public has not seen images of Shell Oil Co.'s Arctic drilling rig, the Kulluk, on site off the coast of Alaska, and a sense of the rig's proximity to protected lands ha...