Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caribou cross through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in their 2012 spring migration. The Western Arctic Caribou ...

AMBLER, Alaska (AP) — Ice blocks drift past Tristen Pattee’s boat as he scans the banks of Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk River for caribou. His great uncle Ernest steadies a rifle on his lap. It’s the last ...

The thing about any individual freedom is that it relies on all the others. The right to private property depends on the right to self-defense, which depends on the right to vote, which depends on ...

AMBLER, Alaska — In Northwest Alaska, a proposed mining road has become a flashpoint in a region already stressed by climate change. The 211-mile Ambler Access Road would cut through Gates of the ...

The proposed 211-mile Ambler Road isn’t the first boondoggle megaproject touted by the State of Alaska — but that doesn’t make unsubstantiated economic claims about the project any less damaging. The ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through wilderness to the Ambler mining district in Northwest Alaska, to support mining of copper, cobalt, ...

State officials said an Interior move to block development of the mining road would violate laws governing access to federal land in Alaska. Alaska officials say the Biden administration’s looming ...

"The Ambler Road to speculation is the last thing the people and wildlife of the Brooks Range need, and it is good see the Biden administration looking carefully at the actual costs of this bad idea" ...

Alaska’s U.S. senators and representatives of resource-extraction industries accused the Biden administration on Thursday of breaking federal laws by rejecting a controversial plan to build a road ...

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 ...