The Ambler Road would enable development in a mineral-rich area of Northwest Alaska. Road opponents worry it would endanger ...

President Trump signed an order allowing planning for Alaska’s Ambler Road mining project to proceed, sparking debate over ...

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of ...

Record prices have amateur prospectors buying picks and ‘pay dirt’ buckets and dreaming of stumbling on the motherlode ...

President Trump just took a significant step toward opening a roadless stretch of Alaskan wilderness to mining. In an ...

The executive order also made the federal government a 10 percent shareholder in the mining company Trilogy Metals.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans have voted to roll back restrictions on mining, drilling and other development in ...

Fellow rock hunters tried to save a 50-year-old from Washington state after a medical emergency in an abandoned gold mine in Alaska, officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Fellow rock hunters tried ...

An aerial view of the existing Fort Knox mine, where ore from Manh Choh will be processed. (Sean McDermott/Grist) This story was co-published with Grist. A dusting of snow clings to the highway as ...

A reality TV star known for hunting for gold in Alaska said he has received a “bolt from the blue” medical diagnosis. “Dakota” Fred Hurt, in a news release from a company he co-owns, Thrill of the ...

A project in Alaska is being fast-tracked in a process that has not yet included legally required consultations with Inupiaq ...