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Alaska's unemployment rate held steady in April, the state Department of Labor reported.

The U.S. decision to list polar bears as a threatened species has indigenous Alaskans like Aalak Nayakik worried that hunting the animals they rely on for food and warmth could be banned. Standing on the edge of the receding sea ice-shelf offshore from Barrow, some 350 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Nayakik, a member of the Inupiat peoples who have inhabited northern Alaska for centuries, ...

The Interior Department said Friday it is moving forward with an oil and gas lease sale covering nearly 4 million acres in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve.

Rick Fox, Alaska asset manager for Shell Exploration and Production, will speak at the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce luncheon about the oil company's plans and projects in the state.