Lower Cook News Today

The State Board of Fisheries met in Homer last month

The State Board of Fisheries met in Homer last month

The proposals to the State Board of Fisheries were considered during a meeting of the Kenai/Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee on Monday

The state of Alaska has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s unusual action last January to prohibit large mines in a 309-square-mile area of

On May 31, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources

Industry watchers say the lukewarm response to the hotly contested sale points to a long-term trend of low interest in the inlet's federal waters.

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National and community-based environmental groups filed a legal challenge today to stop the Department of Interior’s lease sale in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Lease Sale 258, scheduled for Dec. 30, would auction off nearly a million acres of federal waters in Southcentral Alaska, opening the door to decades of future oil-and-gas drilling.

The lease sale was canceled in May, but Congress revived it. Environmentalists argue that the sale was structured on flawed impact analysis.

Center for Biological Diversity: Groups Cite Interior’s Failure to Meaningfully Consider Climate Impacts of Auctioning Close to 1 Million Acres