The state of Alaska, a coalition of business groups and a pair of electric-power organizations have opened a new round in the generation-long fight over environmental protections in Southeast Alaska’s ...

Major Alaska resource projects, and the land they could be built on, may be at stake in the presidential election. They include drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere in Alaska, ...

Tribes are raising alarms as the Trump administration rushes to remove protections for more than 58 million acres of federal forest lands.

Capping more than 10 years of intense controversy over the fate of some of the nation's last remaining old-growth forest, the Bush administration yesterday finalized the opening of 300,000 acres of ...

(Alaska Beacon) The U.S. Department of Agriculture, parent agency of the U.S. Forest Service, announced Wednesday that it is moving ahead with plans to rescind a rule that has restricted logging and ...

While the nation continues to be burdened with huge federal budget deficits, the U.S. Forest Service is still promoting millions of dollars in taxpayer handouts to logging companies for forest ...

The decision to again lift limits on roadless-area development sets up a rematch over the Tongass National Forest. President Donald Trump’s decision on his first day in office to lift logging ...

With spring breakup underway across Interior Alaska, forestry officials are urging the public to avoid driving on several logging roads in the Tanana Valley State Forest through mid-May to prevent ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Environmental advocates readied for battle in Congress this week over what they maintain is an erosion of protections for the biggest, oldest trees in Alaska's Tongass National ...