Aug. 8—Questions still stir more than two years after the death of a young mechanical engineer near Alaska's North Slope oil fields. Colby Lord, 23, suffered a severe skull fracture on April 15, 2023.

DEADHORSE, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to double the amount of oil coursing through Alaska's vast pipeline system and build a massive natural gas project as its “big, beautiful twin,” a ...

A small energy company operating a North Slope oil field has been ordered to pay a $357,905 fine for illegally flaring natural gas over a six-month period. The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation ...

The Badami oil field lies between Prudhoe Bay and Point Thomson on the eastern North Slope. The company that now operates Badami, Cook Inlet Energy, improperly flared natural gas over a six-month ...

Federal regulators have rejected Hilcorp’s attempt to gain more time to develop Liberty, an offshore Arctic oil prospect that has languished since being discovered in the 1990s. The Bureau of Safety ...

The start of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline is seen, bottom left, at the Pump Station 1 on Monday, June 2, 2025, located near Deadhorse, Alaska, on the state's prodigious North Slope. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) ...