A U.S. Coast Guard panel completed the first two days of hearings May 22 of the agency’s inquiry into the grounding of the Shell drillship Kulluk last Dec. 31.

The State of Alaska could put up $50 million to share costs of seismic exploration and exploration planning for a new oil and gas resource assessment in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Gov Sean Parnell has proposed.

Resources Energy Inc., the Japanese company interested in developing a large liquefied natural gas project, has signed several agreements to explore business relationships in Alaska.

The price of oil fell Thursday as weak manufacturing data from China raised questions about the strength of oil demand in the world's No. 2 economy.

A U.S. Coast Guard panel completed the first day of hearings planned for the agency’s inquiry into the grounding of the Shell drillship Kulluk last Dec. 31. Hearings that began May 20 are scheduled for two weeks.

The owner of the Greens Creek Mine in southeast Alaska says silver production is up for the first quarter of 2013.

Build-out of a large-scale mine near the headwaters of a world-class salmon fishery in Alaska could wipe out as many as 90 miles of streams and alter stream flows, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a revised assessment released April 26.

The Pebble Partnership, developers of the large gold/copper project in southwest Alaska, has approved an $80 million budget for 2013 engineering and environmental studies, with a goal of initiating federal and state permitting by the end of the year, the group said Monday in a press release

The 2013 budget for the Pebble mine project is $80 million with the goal being to begin permitting this year.

The U.S. Department of Interior is cutting federal mineral payments to 35 states by about $110 million this fiscal year as part of the automatic federal spending cuts that started this month.