BLM names Alaska state director to focus on ‘resource potential’ By Scott Streater | 06/05/2025 04:27 PM EDT . Kevin Pendergast has served as the bureau’s Alaska deputy state director for ...

Steve Cohn, who resigned as BLM’s deputy state director of resources in Alaska in 2018 to lead the Nature Conservancy’s operations in the Last Frontier, has been tapped as director of the BLM ...

BLM generally conducts annual oil and gas lease sales in the NPR-A. In May 1999, the BLM held its first NPR-A lease sale since 1984, offering nearly 3.9 million acres within the Northeast Planning ...

The Bureau of Land Management will focus on 16 high priority sites as part of its strategy for cleaning up old exploratory wells in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Another 34 wells in the ...

The land under the Taku River may soon have a new owner: the State of Alaska. The state has applied with the Bureau of Land Management to take possession ...

The BLM’s all-female fire crew will be traveling to the heart of the wildfires by boat, helicopter and plane to the Upper Yukon of eastern Alaska for their first assignment.

However, the BLM has recently raised questions about whether the park is being used properly under the R&PP Act. In response, the legislation seeks to resolve that uncertainty by formally ...

US Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are taking steps to expand oil and gas development in Alaska and work toward a path forward for certain transportation ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Canadian company exploring for copper, zinc and gold upstream of a southeast Alaska bald eagle preserve has received permission from a federal agency to expand.Van… ...

Six environmental and community groups are suing the Trump administration in Anchorage federal court for allegedly granting premature approval to U.S. oil producer ConocoPhillips' $3 billion plan ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The Bureau of Land Management says it has completed a land transfer for an Alaska Native village. The BLM announced Wednesday that the signing of the final patent for more ...