The Biden administration on Friday took two major actions that could limit future resource development in Alaska. It rejected a right-of-way permit sought by a state agency for a 200-mile road through ...

Aerial view of Ambler and the Kobuk River in the summer. (Courtesy of the National Park Service via UAF Gates of the Arctic Research Portal) U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said he’s added an amendment to an ...

The Bureau of Land Management determined the proposed road to a mining district in northern Alaska would result in irreparable harm to permafrost and wildlife. Alaskan tribal members and environmental ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Ten groups filed an amended and supplemental complaint today challenging the Trump administration’s 2025 decisions to reinstate unlawful permits for the proposed Ambler road. These ...

Donald Trump’s election has boosted a company that’s seeking to build a mine at the end of Alaska’s proposed Ambler road — suggesting that investors expect the new administration to resurrect the ...

Companies that want federal approval to mine in a remote part of Alaska are connected to the road backed by President Donald Trump. Mining companies pushing to dig up copper and other metals in remote ...

On October 6, 2025 the Trump administration announced an executive order approving the controversial Ambler Road Project. The proposed project is a private gravel road that will be used exclusively ...

AMBLER, Alaska (AP) — Ice blocks drift past Tristen Pattee’s boat as he scans the banks of Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk River for caribou. His great uncle Ernest steadies a rifle on his lap. It’s the last ...

The Kobuk River runs through the Ambler Mining district, where a new road would be built to connect the Northwest Arctic with the Dalton Highway to Fairbanks. (Berett Wilber/Alaska Public Media) A key ...