Alaska officials are preparing to hold a lease sale for geothermal exploration rights at Augustine Volcano, a 4,133-foot peak that forms its own cone-shaped island in the southern part of Cook Inlet.

Companies will soon be able to bid on opportunities to tap a volcanic island in Cook Inlet to generate renewable energy. Alaska officials have scheduled a geothermal lease sale covering a little more ...

Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. The Trump administration is planning an oil and gas lease sale in federal territory of the inlet. It is set to be the first of ...

The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources ...

The glacier-covered Redoubt Volcano is one of many that line Alaska’s southern shores. Located 177 kilometers (110 miles) southwest of Anchorage, Redoubt is one of the peaks in the scenic Chigmit ...

For the first time, the underwater calls made by the endangered beluga whales in Southcentral Alaska’s Cook Inlet have been recorded, identified and cataloged. To accomplish that, University of ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Several groups and an Alaska resident filed suit today to protect endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and the Johnson River, which flows through Lake Clark National Park before ...

Augustine Volcano, which rises out of southern Cook Inlet, is seen from the air on March 7, 2023. The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas has taken steps to prepare for a geothermal lease sale for tracts ...