Contractors dismantling Fort Greely’s old nuclear power plant have begun shipping scrap material from the project to a radioactive-waste storage site in Texas.

Job growth is flat across most of Alaska, but it’s up about 7% in the North Slope and Northwest Arctic regions.

Golden Valley Electric Association is working on a rate case study to determine whether the co-op should increase the price of electricity it provides to its members.

A University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher says her research team’s recent study shows electric vehicles could benefit rural communities around the state that are off the road system.

The project is part of a $16B national initiative to clean up coal pollution.

Golden Valley Electric Association announced Monday that the utility may have to resort to briefly shutting off power to customers during winter if it encounters a worst-case scenario.

The Alaska Energy Authority has awarded nearly $21 million in grants to Golden Valley Electric Association to pay for three projects that will make the co-op’s system, and the Railbelt grid it’s connected to, more reliable.

Nearly 180 researchers and other experts from the University of Alaska Fairbanks are in Washington, D.C., this week for an annual gathering of top geophysical scientists from around the world.

An Eielson Air Force Base contractor has excavated about a thousand tons of soil from a site in Salcha contaminated by more than 700 gallons of jet fuel.