Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. A federal oil and gas lease sale that offered about 1 ...

Map of Cook Inlet, Alaska, with red pins where underwater recordings used for this study. Stripes show Cook Inlet beluga whale critical habitat, and the blue line shows designated Port of Alaska ...

Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. The Trump administration is planning an oil and gas lease sale in federal territory of the inlet. It is set to be the first of ...

An unusual offering of royalty-free oil and gas leases in the Cook Inlet basin drew a few bids, with state officials describing this month’s experiment as successful. Bids for six tracts were ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Center for Biological Diversity and Cook Inletkeeper filed a petition with the National Marine Fisheries Service today to create a Cook Inlet beluga protection zone in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025 (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Low clouds hang over ...

The first in a series of newly mandated oil and gas lease sales for federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet received no bids, agency officials said on Wednesday. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy ...