Alaska

Many residents feel a proposed highway into Juneau is a waste of money and a threat to nature.

Alaska's capital is losing young people to Anchorage and Fairbanks, at the cost of jobs and city growth.

Environmental activists are using "scare tactics" to attack President Bush's "balanced and people-friendly environmental agenda," argues M. David Stirling.

Thomas L. Friedman writes that the Bush administration's energy policy and the "obsession" to drill for oil in Alaska's wildlife refuge "endangers" the U.S.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that drilling in Alaska's pristine Artic National Wildlife Refuge could yield 10.4 billion barrels of oil. Critics says that represents 6 months' supply for the U.S.

The U.S. Senates voted in favor of allowing oil drilling in Alaska's wildlife refuge

The Los Angeles Times calls the Bush Administration's plans to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska a "sneaky bid."

Erosion is eating away at the Eskimo village of Newtok, Alaska. The village grocer has stepped up to lead the relocation.

A reporter chronicles his experience taking Ancorage's People Mover bus system and concludes that, if you have time time, it'a a "great bargain."

Is smart growth more about nostalgia and less about reality?

Alaska Rep. Don Young argues that a deteriorating transportation infrastructure burdens the economy more than a gas tax increase would.

Did the Smithsonian come under political pressure to "revise" a photo exhibition of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?

Why did eight moderate Republicans vote against oil drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife refuge?

Republicans joined Democrats in the U.S. Senate to quash the Bush administration's plans to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

The Bush administration's proposal to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been rejected by the U.S. Senate.

Republicans are having trouble getting enough votes for allowing drilling the the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Scars from oil exploration activiy in northern Alaska are still visible eighteen years later.

New provisions could weaken Clinton-era forest protections.

Global warming will cost Alaska "hundreds of millions of dollars."

The U.S. Forest Service has drawn up a new plan for the second-largest national forest in the U.S.