The Trump administration has finalised plans to allow oil and gas drilling in a national wildlife refuge spanning pristine Indigenous land in Alaska, reigniting long-simmering tensions about ...

A look at the lands and energy pieces of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ and where they stand right now in the U.S. Senate Members of the U.S. Senate last week proposed a major sale of federal land as part ...

A U.S. Senate committee has proposed selling more than 3 million acres of public lands in Alaska and several other Western states to support new housing development. The idea has alarmed conservation ...

A mandate to sell millions of acres of public land was struck from the Republican budget reconciliation bill that’s moving through the U.S. Senate this week, after the Senate parliamentarian ruled on ...

A view of Ketchikan from the top of the Edmonds Street stairs. A section of the Republican megabill pending in the U.S. Senate would require the government to sell some of the public land in Alaska ...

Gloria Simeon, co-founder of the Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition, speaks during an interview outside her smokehouse in Bethel, Alaska, on June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) BETHEL, Alaska (AP) ...

On July 9, 2025, the President signed into law the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act of 2025 (“ANVMLRA”). This legislation will permit Alaska Native Village Corporations to recover ...

Russia lost a war in Crimea in the 1850s, leaving the country deep in debt. To ease that burden, Russia cut a real estate deal with the U.S. government, selling its colony of Alaska to the Americans.