According to the National Wildlife Refuge Association, staffing of the refuge system nationally was reduced by 30% over the last 15 years; in Alaska it has been a bare-bones operation.

Officials later confirmed that a devastating tsunami was expected near Sand Point, Cold Bay and Kodiak in an update ...

While most of the tests covered by the act were conducted in Nevada, the program also covers health damages from underground ...

German soldiers never set foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the name ...

Watch: The officials at Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge confirm this once trapped moose calf is happily reunited with Mom.

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday a congressionally mandated oil and gas drilling lease auction in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge received no bids from energy companies.

Cottongrass wafts over the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 2, 2006. No bids were received in the second congressionally managed oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National ...

JUNEAU, Alaska – The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said no bids were submitted for this week's oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a sale the state has ...