Seward charter fishing boat captain Skip Massey has an easy answer for why he's opened the past four seasons with a boatload of nonpaying clients.

Resources Energy Inc., the Japanese company interested in developing a large liquefied natural gas project, has signed several agreements to explore business relationships in Alaska.

Two closely-watched Cook Inlet exploration wells being drilled with jack-up rigs are reported to have reached or are approaching their target depths. Furie Operating Alaska Inc., drilling the kitchen Lights Unit No.

A Japanese consortium working on an independent Alaska liquefied natural gas project has completed a feasibility study and given it to state officials.

Cook Inlet salmon research and management was at the heart of a meeting in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough last week.

Southcentral utilities are breathing a little easier about natural gas supplies with Hilcorp Energy saying it can meet demand until 2017 by producing more gas from old wells it took over earlier this year from Marathon Oil.

Alaska's Board of Fisheries will likely be one member short when it meets in Anchorage next week to discuss Arctic, Yukon and Kuskokwim area finfish issues.

Missing since Friday night, Steven Craig, 41, a snowmachiner from the southern Kenai Peninsula, has been found. Craig was spotted from the air Sunday afternoon by Homer pilot Charlie Kauffman, who joined the search effort along with his son, Ryan.

A bill creating a low-interest loan program for homeowners wanting to improve or replace their home heating systems is making its way through the Alaska House of Representatives. Sponsored by Rep.

JUNEAU - Legislators in Juneau are moving toward key decisions on changing the state's oil and gas production taxes, the top priority for the 2013 legislative session aside from the budget.