by Loren Barrett | Sep 18, 2025 | Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
In 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) approved Lease Sale 258 without fully considering cumulative impacts to Cook Inlet Belugas, the impact of vessel noise, and alternatives for a reduced sale and meaningful reduction of overall impacts to Cook...
by Ben Boettger | Sep 17, 2025 | Civics
Editor’s note: This story was updated Oct. 10 with additional information about the used baler the Kenai Peninsula Borough is planning to purchase, and on Oct. 14 with updated information about aluminium recycling at Central Peninsula Landfill After the 33-year...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Sep 17, 2025 | West Su Access Road
Alaska houses more than half the wetlands in the United States. This makes it especially vulnerable to the impacts of the 2023 case Sackett vs. EPA. The case changed which wetlands fall under federal jurisdiction and trigger Clean Water Act protection. Only wetlands...
by Jamie Currie | Sep 17, 2025 | Belugas, Johnson Tract Mine
In Cook Inlet’s quieter bays, lucky onlookers occasionally spot a small squadron of white crests break the surface, their breath forming plumes of steam in the air. If your boat engine is off, sometimes you can even hear their songs through the hull—a multifaceted...
