Becky Bohrer

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  • Laura Norton-CruzPersonal Finance

    You’re getting a $1,312 handout from the government this fall—if you live in Alaska. It’s a double-edged sword

    By Becky Bohrer and The Associated Press
  • Petr Kellner

    Federal government releases probe into Alaska heli-skiing crash that killed the billionaire who was the Czech Republic’s richest man

    By Becky Bohrer, Mark Thiessen, and others
  • FILE – Caribou graze in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, on June 1, 2001. In an aggressive move that angered Republicans, the Biden administration on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, canceled seven oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, overturning sales held in the Trump administration’s waning days, and proposed stronger protections against oil drilling in 13 million acres of wilderness in the state’s National Petroleum Reserve. (AP Photo/File)Politics

    Biden administration has canceled the 7 remaining oil and gas leases Trump gave in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge

    By Becky Bohrer, Matthew Daly, and others
  • Juneau, AlaskaEnvironment

    Alaska’s capital just lost 2 homes to a flash flood from its glacier’s ‘Suicide Basin’—but probably not because of climate change

    By Becky Bohrer and The Associated Press
  • Juneau, AlaskaEnvironment

    Alaska’s capital built a beautiful tourist center in sight of its epic glacier. Then the glacier began to rapidly shrink

    By Becky Bohrer and The Associated Press
  • Climate activists gather to protest with demanding President Biden stop the Willow ProjectPolitics

    Judge rejects environmentalists’ request to halt Willow Project construction

    By Becky Bohrer and The Associated Press
  • FILE – This 2019 aerial photo provided by ConocoPhillips shows an exploratory drilling camp at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope. The Biden administration issued a long-awaited study on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, that recommends allowing three oil drilling sites in the region of far northern Alaska. The move, while not final, has angered environmentalists who see it as a betrayal of President Joe Biden’s pledges to reduce carbon emissions and promote green energy. (ConocoPhillips via AP)Environment

    The Biden administration has decided that giant Alaska oil projects aren’t so bad after all

    By Becky Bohrer, Matthew Daly, and others
  • A worker with the Pebble Mine project digs in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamma, Alaska, July 13, 2007.Environment

    The federal government just shut down a proposed gold mine in Alaska after a decade-long fight because it would have hurt the ‘unrivaled’ salmon economy

    By Becky Bohrer, Patrick Whittle, and others