One day after President Donald Trump announced to a joint session of congress he would take “historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the USA” — an Alaska DNR geologist said Alaska has almost all of the critical minerals,

Canada is pressing ahead with response measures. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced retaliatory tariffs on Wednesday, and the leaders of individual provinces have announced additional measures. In Ontario, Premier Doug Ford said that the province will begin adding a 25% surcharge to electricity bound for the United States.

Premier David Eby said the tolls may not be used, but warned that Canada needs to have tools available to fight the threat of tariffs coming from President Donald Trump until he backs down from his plans altogether.

President Donald Trump touted his administration's work on a proposed Alaska pipeline, underscoring his push to invigorate a long-stalled US$44bil project to transport natural gas across the state and export it overseas.

The 25% tariff on most imported Canadian goods that President Donald Trump’s plans to impose Tuesday has touched off a range of emotions along the world’s longest international border.

In 1900, the Signal Corps began building the Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System (WAMCATS) to provide basic communications to the