JUNEAU — Several measures intended to address a looming shortfall of Cook Inlet gas are being rushed through committees as the end of the Alaska Legislature’s regular session fast approaches.

The natural gas utility for Southcentral Alaska said a prolonged cold snap in recent weeks increased the demand for gas from ...

A natural gas leak in Cook Inlet has finally been repaired, more than three months after it began. The oil and gas company Hilcorp said a dive team managed to install a clamp on its pipeline late ...

The agency alleges an environmental study by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was conducted with a “serious” lack of ...

For more than three months, an underwater pipeline has been spewing hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of processed natural gas per day in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, possibly threatening critically ...

Cook Inlet oil platforms are visible from shore near Kenai, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk) The federal government said it will continue taking steps toward a potential oil and gas ...

Government agencies and the public can now find information on the endangered population of Cook Inlet beluga whales on an easy-to-use public data portal through the Alaska Ocean Observing System’s ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The number of beluga whales estimated to be in Cook Inlet off Alaska's largest city have not increased in the last year, leading critics to reiterate their call for greater ...

A natural gas pipeline has been leaking since at least late December into Alaska's Cook Inlet, home of endangered beluga whales, and the company says it can't safely stop the flow of gas. Credit: ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The owner of a pipeline leaking natural gas into Alaska’s Cook Inlet is dealing with another potential gas leak on a different line. It is the third such incident this year for ...

Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...

A government study found that a group of endangered beluga whales in Alaska is declining, raising concern that bolstered protection for the animals is not coming quickly enough. The downward trend ...