WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other minerals. The long-debated ...

The administration is considering an equity stake in a road that would cross wilderness to provide access to a remote mining ...

An Alaska Native corporation that controls land in the northwest part of the state has withdrawn its support for the road. The embattled Ambler mining road in Alaska hit another speed bump this week.

The Biden administration has dealt what some in industry and state government view as a double blow to resource development in Alaska. In one move announced earlier this month, the U.S. Interior Dept.

Ten years ago, the state of Alaska signed an agreement with British Columbia that sought to give Alaskans a say in the development of mines upstream of Southeast Alaska. Environmental advocates say ...

A paper released Wednesday by the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage envisions what the state’s mining industry could look like in 20 years. The paper’s ...