Mere hours before he banged his gavel to adjourn this year’s session of the Alaska House of Representatives, Speaker Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, introduced a bill to bar metals mining from the Bristol ...

A federal agency that coordinates permitting for projects said it will support Donlin Gold in Southwest Alaska, a move expected to expedite the permitting process for its construction. The Federal ...

Gold was discovered in the Fairbanks area in 1902 when Italian immigrant Felix Pedro struck it rich. He put Fairbanks on the map and thousands of men rushed to interior Alaska in search of the ...

Alaska is positively crying for money for schools, human services, road maintenance and infrastructure needs, yet the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. What’s on the ...

This story was published by Northern Journal in partnership with Inside Climate News and is the first in a two-story series. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — On a January evening, dozens of people ...

North of Fairbanks, hundreds of workers at Alaska’s biggest gold mine dig up, haul, crush and grind thousands of tons of ore each day, year-round. The sprawling Fort Knox mine consumes $40 million ...