Lisa Murkowski News

Whenever businesses and bureaucrats don't have the guts to stand behind a decision they've made, they release the news late on a Friday.

Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to report on how sensitive information about electric grid security became public.

The Obama administration is putting off its decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, likely until after the November elections, by extending its review of the controversial project indefinitely.

Republicans are finally learning that the most effective defense can be a good offense, even when the battle is imaginary.

The Obama administration says it is indefinitely extending its long-awaited review of the Keystone XL pipeline - providing a Good Friday jolt to one of the president's most wrenching environmental decisions.

Miller was thrust into the national spotlight in 2010, when he upset Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the GOP primary last year.

I don't like to talk about national politics - not because I'm writing for a local newspaper, not because I feel it's above my pay grade or interest level, but because it's beneath me.

After a public hearing and second reading at Monday's Homer City Council meeting, Mayor Beth Wythe broke a tie vote to approve a $31,000 appropriation for marketing Homer in the book Alaska: North to the Future.

A pair of senators have introduced legislation that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from using its authority to preemptively block or to revoke permits for mine waste disposal.

The U.S. Energy Department on Monday renewed ConocoPhillips' permit allowing the company to export liquefied natural gas from Alaska to all countries.

Earlier this month, a liquefied natural gas facility near the Columbia River at Plymouth, Washington exploded , injuring workers and forcing the evacuation of 400 residents and agricultural workers within a two-mile radius.

A two-decade-old debate over whether to build a $75 million, so-called Road to Nowhere through an Alaska wilderness area to connect the city of King Cove, population 938 , to Cold Bay, population 108 , has emerged as one of the most bitterly contested natural resource battles of 2014.

With proven U.S. crude oil reserves increasing, Senate leaders said it was time to lift a 1970s era ban restricting crude oil exports.

ED: EPA'S PROPOSED WATER RULE IS "LARGEST LAND GRAB" EVER Apr. 14, 2014 by Gary Baise I just returned from Germany and Poland and was startled to discover the regulatory control the European Union exercises over its farmers and agriculture.

Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a standing-room only hearing titled "Keeping the lights on - Are we doing enough to ensure the reliability and security of the U.S. electric grid?" While the hearing was organized into two panels focusing on cyber security and physical security, the questioning from the lawmakers ... (more)

In this March 23, 2012, photo by NOAA Fisheries is a Steller sea lion female and juvenile on Seguam Island in the Aleutian chain.

Facing the Obama administration's so-called "war on coal," some utility officials are warning that fewer coal-fired power plants could leave the U.S. power system vulnerable to blackouts in the near future.

Senate energy committee leaders on Friday asked the Department of Energy to prepare reports examining issues relating to the country's ban on exporting crude amid record oil and gas production.

In conjunction with my work in the design of airborne military electronics in 1970, I attended a three-day conference at UW-Madison on the effects of nuclear generated Electro Magnetic Pulse on airborne electronics systems.

Joe Miller, the tea party conservative who blew open Alaska's 2010 U.S. Senate race, made a rare public appearance in Anchorage this week before a small group of university students and tea partiers as he prepares to officially launch his latest campaign.