WASHINGTON — An Alaska land-grant program allotting free wilderness tracts in the far reaches of the state to qualifying Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans and their heirs passed the Senate on Tuesday ...

Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and ...

A U.S. Senate committee has proposed selling more than 3 million acres of public lands in Alaska and several other Western states to support new housing development. The idea has alarmed conservation ...

Section 1. Background. The State of Alaska holds an abundant and largely untapped supply of natural resources including, among others, energy, mineral, timber, and seafood. Unlocking this bounty of ...