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President Donald Trump speaks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump puts the spotlight anew on a major Alaska gas project. Will it make a difference?

President Donald Trump says his administration will ensure a major natural gas pipeline in Alaska gets built.

Mats Pettersson, from Sweden, makes the corner onto Cordova Street during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ceremonial start in Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, March 2, 2024. (Bob Hallinen/Anchorage Daily News via AP, File)

Lack of snow north of the Alaska Range prompts Iditarod to move official start to Fairbanks

Un grupo de personas en el Centro de Visitantes Eielson disfrutan el lugar mientras al fondo se yergue el pico más alto de Norteamérica, Denali, el 2 de septiembre de 2015, en el Parque Nacional y Reserva de Denali, Alaska. (AP foto/Becky Bohrer, archivo)

Alaska US senators introduce bill that would again designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali

In this screen grab from a Facebook livestream, residents from the Inupiat Eskimo village of Golovin in Alaska pose with a Bering Air pilot, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP via Irene Navarro)

Plane that crashed and killed 10 was part of Alaska’s air travel system, essential to daily life

A UH-1Y Venom helicopter from Marine Light Attack Squadron 773 flies over Caesars Superdome ahead of Super Bowl 59 between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Super Bowl averaged a record 127.7 million US viewers

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Authorities say the remains of all 10 people killed in a western Alaska plane crash have been recovered

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard on Feb. 7, 2025, shows a small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on a flight that was bound for the hub community of Nome. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP, File)

Here’s what we know about a commuter plane crash in Alaska that killed 10 people

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard on Feb. 7, 2025, shows a small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on a flight that was bound for the hub community of Nome. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP, File)

The remains of all 10 people killed in Alaska plane crash have been recovered, authorities say

All 10 people aboard a small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska are dead, Coast Guard says

Plane located that matches the one that went missing in Alaska with 10 aboard, authorities say; 3 bodies found

Missing plane in Alaska had a rapid loss of elevation and speed before its signal was lost, the Coast Guard says

People stand at the Eielson Visitor Center with a view of North America's tallest peak, Denali, in the background, Sept. 2, 2015, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, file)

Alaska Legislature asks Trump to retain Denali’s name instead of change it to Mount McKinley

Alaska Legislature urges President Donald Trump not to change Denali’s name back to Mount McKinley

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard on Feb. 7, 2025, shows a small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on a flight that was bound for the hub community of Nome. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP, File)

Missing commuter plane found crashed on Alaska sea ice and all 10 aboard are dead, authorities say

Gunnar Kaasen and with his dog Balto, the heroic dogsled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. (AP Photo, File)

Mushers and dogs braved a horrific Alaska winter to deliver lifesaving serum 100 years ago

People stand at the Eielson Visitor Center with a view of North America's tallest peak, Denali, in the background, Sept. 2, 2015, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, file)

Alaska House members urge Trump to keep the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali

Denali is visible from Pt. Woronzof, Oct. 9, 2024, as a person rides a bicycle on the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Trump’s celebration of American greatness puts a spotlight on a little-known panel of experts

A boat is seen on the Susitna River near Talkeetna, Alaska, on Sunday, June 13, 2021, with Denali in the background. Denali, the tallest mountain on the North American continent, is located about 60 miles northwest of Talkeetna. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Alaskans say Trump can change the name of Denali but can’t make people call it Mount McKinley

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks with reporters outside the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Alaska Sen. Murkowski has faced Trump’s wrath. She was willing to defy him after his return to power

This image provided by Christie's Images shows a golden spike driven by President Warren G. Harding in Nenana, Alaska, just days before he died in office, which marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad over a century ago. (Christie's Images via AP)

Anchorage Museum among Alaskans combining to win auction for Alaska Railroad’s golden spike

This image provided by Christie's Images shows a golden spike driven by President Warren G. Harding in Nenana, Alaska, just days before he died in office, which marked the completion of the Alaska Railroad over a century ago. (Christie's Images via AP)

A golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad is up for auction. Alaskans want to bring it home

President Donald Trump signs an executive order as he attends an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event at Capital One Arena, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Everything Trump did in the first executive orders and actions of his presidency

The snow-covered coastal plain area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is seen, with the Brooks Range at right, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, near Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Trump targets Alaska’s oil and other resources as environmentalists gear up for a fight

People stand at the Eielson Visitor Center with a view of North America's tallest peak, Denali, in the background, Sept. 2, 2015, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, file)

Trump order seeks to change the name of North America’s tallest peak from Denali to Mount McKinley

A woman tosses debris from a construction site that was on Brayton Drive during the windstorm on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

Hurricane-force winds cause widespread damage in Alaska’s largest city

This image provided by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities shows fencing and the roof of a walkway after collapsing onto the Seward Highway in Anchorage, Alaska, on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities via AP)

Fencing, roof of Anchorage pedestrian bridge fall in strong wind, closing highway

The Kaktovik Lagoon and the Brooks Range mountains of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are seen in Kaktovik, Alaska, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

A second oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge draws no bids

A boat is seen on the Susitna River near Talkeetna, Alaska, on Sunday, June 13, 2021, with Denali in the background. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

President-elect Trump wants to again rename North America’s tallest peak

Former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., speaks before Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, at a campaign event on Nov. 4, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

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Santa and Mrs. Claus talk to a child in Yakutat, Alaska, in the Alaska National Guard's Operation Santa program, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Santa and Mrs. Claus use military transports to bring Christmas to an Alaska Native village

This combo image made with photos released by National Marine Fisheries Service purport to show marine mammals — clockwise from top left: a humpback whale, orca, walrus and Stellar sea lion — killed in U.S. trawl fisheries. The photos have been heavily altered to obscure their content, and on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, activists sued the federal government to release the unaltered images. (National Marine Fisheries Service via AP)

Activists sue federal government for images of dead orcas entangled by fishing boats

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy holds during a news conference on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska, outlining his budget proposal for the coming year. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Alaska governor asks Trump to roll back restrictions on oil and gas drilling

The fishing vessel Wind Walker fishes near Sitka, Alaska, March 29, 2022, during the Sitka Sound sac roe fishery. (James Poulson/The Daily Sitka Sentinel via AP)

2 bodies recovered amid debris from a fishing boat that reportedly capsized in Alaska

FILE - Alaska Airlines aircraft sits in the airline's hangar at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Jan. 10, 2024, in SeaTac, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Alaska Airlines will spread its wings by flying to Tokyo and Seoul beginning next year

A U.S. squad armed with guns and hand grenades closes in on Japanese holdouts entrenched in dugouts during World War II on Attu Island, Alaska, in June 1943. (U.S. Army via AP, File)

Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion