WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Department of the Interior today released its final Record of Decision (ROD) for its Environmental Impact Statement related to oil and gas drilling within the ecologically sensitive coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Adam Kolton, Executive Director at Alaska Wilderness League said […]
NUIQSUT — Snow whips through the streets, stinging the skin and piling up in dunes. It is springtime in Nuiqsut, blinding white, 1 degree Fahrenheit with a 30 mile-per-hour wind. A few dozen kids are not feeling the bite, as they play in the gym of the Nuiqsut School (home of the Trappers). They are […]
Authorities have released the identities of the pilot and passenger of an aircraft crash in the Marvel Dome area that occurred on Thursday afternoon. Troopers released the names of 62-year-old Mark Matter and 63-year-old Cecilia Matter as the victims of a fatal crash on the side of Marvel Dome four to five miles from the […]