Alaska's Cook Inlet was home to nearly 1,300 beluga whales in the late 1970s, but today the population hovers around 300. Despite almost two decades of recovery work, the whales aren't bouncing back.

A natural gas leak in Cook Inlet has finally been repaired, more than three months after it began. The oil and gas company Hilcorp said a dive team managed to install a clamp on its pipeline late ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition brought by Alaska commercial fishers challenging federal management of the Upper ...

JUNEAU — Several measures intended to address a looming shortfall of Cook Inlet gas are being rushed through committees as the end of the Alaska Legislature’s regular session fast approaches.

The lease sale comes as Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration push to ramp up oil offerings in Alaska. The results of an oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet will be announced ...

Cook Inlet oil platforms are visible from shore near Kenai, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk) The federal government said it will continue taking steps toward a potential oil and gas ...

The flow of oil from an undersea pipeline leaking in Cook Inlet was halted Sunday, one day after the leak was noticed by workers on a Hilcorp Alaska offshore platform, state officials said. What's not ...

Fossil Fuels Alaska Oil and Gas Spills Prompt Call for Inspection of All Cook Inlet Pipelines One of the pipelines is still leaking into the inlet, Alaska's oldest oil and gas producing region, where ...

The Kenai Peninsula’s Cook Inletkeeper joined a lawsuit last month opposing the proposed Johnson Tract gold mine project on the west side of the Cook Inlet in Southcentral Alaska. Also listed as ...

Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...

A natural gas pipeline has been leaking since at least late December into Alaska's Cook Inlet, home of endangered beluga whales, and the company says it can't safely stop the flow of gas. Credit: ...