Half A Year Of Hawaiian: Alaska Airlines Code To Replace HA From April

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines have been progressing through their integration for more than a year. The two carriers finalized their merger in September 2024, and since then, significant steps have been taken toward full integration. This...

Timber company re-applies to store logs in Lutak Inlet after surveying sea floor

A company under contract for a major timber sale in Haines is trying again to secure a permit to store harvested logs in Lutak Inlet, a key piece of its proposed operation. As part of that process, the company conducted a required survey this...

9 of the best things to do in Alaska

With vast swaths of wilderness, communities that are only accessible by boat or plane, and plenty of people who’ve chosen to live in one of the most rural and dramatic landscapes in the United States, it’s no surprise that Alaska is called the...

New: Alaska Scores Big on Antimony Refinery

The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. Antimony (Sb on the periodic table) is a strategic mineral with many applications. Shooters will recognize it, as it is frequently...

Trump Gives Green Light to Alaska’s Ambler Road Project to Unlock Critical Minerals

President Donald J. Trump has approved an appeal by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA), instructing his administration to issue the necessary permits for the proposed 211-mile industrial access road to the Ambler Mining...

Dozens rescued, several still missing after monster storm brings violent wind gusts and record storm surge to western Alaska

By CNN’s Hanna Park, CNN Meteorologist Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers in western Alaska are working to find missing residents and help those displaced after ferocious, hurricane-force wind gusts from what once was Typhoon Halong tore through...

Columbus Day 2025: Federal Holiday Schedule — Banks, Schools, USPS, Stock Market, Costco — what’s open, what’s closed, and Wall Street trading hours for October 13

Columbus Day 2025 falls on Monday, October 13. It is a federal holiday observed across the United States, though the way people mark the day varies widely. Many Americans use this day for rest, family time, or local celebrations. Columbus Day...

Seniors and teens becoming more important in Alaska’s workforce, statistics show

The percentage of residents 65 and older in Alaska’s workforce has increased steadily since 2003. (Graph provided by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section) As Alaska’s population of working-age...

The Trump administration is investing in Canadian critical mineral companies. But Ottawa can stop it

The Trump administration has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies, a move experts say is certainly unusual, if not extraordinary, and which raise questions about whether Ottawa should block them in the interest of national...

Container Ship Takes on B24-HSFO in Zhejiang Free Trade Zone

The biofuel stem was delivered to the boxship undergoing repairs by China Marine Fuel. File Image / Pixabay A container ship was bunkered with B24-HSFO at an anchorage in the Zhejiang Free Trade Zone, China. The bunkering operation of the Hong...

A regal seaweed company in Prince William Sound

“Today, we harvested all the kelp on the farm. We had six lines of sugar kelp and ten lines of ribbon kelp. The sugar looked good – we’re pretty happy with it. The ribbon kelp? Not so much. Pretty sparse,” Thomas explained on a tour of her site,...

Anchorage as you’ve probably never seen her: 10 midcentury photos from the National Archives, Part I

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. As a historian, it often matters...

State again seeks comments on Washington company’s proposed log transfer facility in Lutak Inlet

The comment deadline is looming on a land-use permit application submitted by a Chehalis, Washington company proposing to build a log transfer facility in Lutak Inlet. NSEA Timber, Inc., plans to build the facility to transfer logs from a timber...

Anchorage Republican Women’s Club Gives $1,000 to Turning Point USA-UAA 

After attending the Charlie Kirk memorial put on by University of Alaska – Anchorage’s Turning Point USA chapter, Anchorage Republican Women’s Club (ARWC) President Judy Eledge realized the importance of republicans mentoring and financially...

REP. MCCABE: Alaska must dismantle & rebuild our failing school system to serve parents, kids

In 1925, the U.S. Supreme Court in the Pierce v. Society of Sisters laid out a message that should resonate with Alaskan parents today. The Court declared: “The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes...

Alaska gasline caucus examines an LNG workforce demand

As Alaskan utilities, policymakers and construction companies keep eyes on the prospects of a natural gas line that runs from the North Slope to Southcentral, lawmakers are pondering where the workforce will come from. The Alaska Gasline Caucus, a...

Alaska education officials walk back proposal to restrict local governments’ funding for school

Officials with the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development have walked back a proposal to limit local governments’ funding for public schools, instead asking the State Board of Education to take no action on the item this week. The...

Holdfast Alaska: The Family That Chose To Homestead In The Alaskan Wilderness

Authored by Ryan Cashman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It had already been a long journey by the time Dennis and Amy Westerlind reached the Port of Bellingham, Washington, on a cold November night in 2020. They had spent several days...

Hawaiian Airlines To Operate Final Flight Before SOC Integration With Alaska Airlines

Hawaiian Airlines is currently in the process of preparing a final commemorative flight under its own operating certificate before the airline's complete integration with Alaska Airlines under a Single operating Certificate. This is expected to be...

Nova shores up Alaska base in US antimony race

Nova Minerals secures land use permits to begin establishing downstream antimony processing and refining operations next to deep-water Port MacKenzie in Alaska, giving it a lead in US domestic antimony production race The strategic location...