Jun. 16—State transportation officials have shut down the 400-mile road to Alaska's oil fields due to "a significant flooding event," washouts and erosion across a broad stretch between ...

We know oil fields eventually decline, and some of the large “legacy” North Slope fields are declining faster than expected. But there’s good news.

The heart of the Flower Fields is, of course, the array of vast sloping fields of Giant Tecolote ranunculus. These natives of Asia Minor belonging the buttercup family, bloom each year in the ...