Nathaniel Herz

In the past, large-scale exercises “occurred in Alaska,” one general says. “Now, this is high-end training that is occurring — that is about Alaska, from Alaska.”

One utility leader points to private developers and the Trump tax bill. But advocates say utilities share some of the blame.

On crowded platforms, a small army labors to keep up the extraction of fossil fuels from the state’s oldest producing oil and gas basin.

The startup planning the operation near the North Slope oil fields would power its computers not with coal but with another fossil fuel: natural gas that’s currently going unused.

Alaska’s Legislature adjourned in May without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as urgent: expanding access to commercial fishing careers.

The request by leaders of the state’s urban utilities faces opposition from some advocates, who say wind power is a more politically and economically realistic bet than the multibillion-dollar Susitna development.

A Hilcorp spokesman said the company is looking to drill new wells as soon as this winter.

The lawsuit asks a judge to order the service to “promptly issue” its decision on the petition by a specific date.

The itinerary for Treg Taylor’s trip to Normandy included a stay at a five-star hotel favored by Hollywood stars and polo players.

Two of Alaska’s members of Congress have not directly said how they’d vote on an expected Trump proposal to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.