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Alaska launches new campaign to promote farmed shellfish and seaweed to chefs, retailers

Alaska launches new campaign to promote farmed shellfish and seaweed to chefs, retailers

The Alaska Mariculture Cluster is launching a major marketing push to elevate the visibility of and demand for Alaska-grown seaweed and shellfish. The program, which kicks off in July and runs through September 2026, is funded by a $49 million...

Lyft expands its rewards program for personal and business riders

Lyft expands its rewards program for personal and business riders

Lyft has announced some changes that will make your next ride more rewarding. The new changes affect business riders the most; however, if you're a frequent personal Lyft rider and have linked Alaska Airlines as your rewards partner, you'll see...

Verizon, Alaska Airlines, Microsoft: Trending Tickers

Verizon, Alaska Airlines, Microsoft: Trending Tickers

00:00 Speaker A Now, time for some of today's top trending tickers. We are watching Verizon, Alaska Airlines, and Microsoft. First up, Verizon raising its full-year guidance after reporting robust earnings. The US's largest mobile service provider...

Gavin Newsom All but Says He's Running for President, Breaks Out the Violent 'Fire With Fire' Rhetoric

Gavin Newsom All but Says He's Running for President, Breaks Out the Violent 'Fire With Fire' Rhetoric

The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. Increasingly desperate Democrats have resorted to extensive profanity and incendiary rhetoric in recent months as they try to regain...

PM to meet with U.S. senators in Ottawa to talk trade

PM to meet with U.S. senators in Ottawa to talk trade

By: The Canadian Press, The Canadian Press Posted: 7:23 AM CDT Monday, Jul. 21, 2025 OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with a delegation of U.S. senators this morning who are in Ottawa to discuss the ongoing trade conflict between...

CNBC ranks Mississippi among 5 worst states for business. What to know

CNBC ranks Mississippi among 5 worst states for business. What to know

A new list judging how well each state meets modern business needs places Mississippi near last. CNBC ranked all 50 states using 10 metrics of success that account for 135 separate metrics. The news site has ranked the states for almost 20 years,...

U.S. Goldmining Announces 2025 Exploration Program Targeting Continued Growth At The District Scale Whistler Gold-Copper Project, Alaska

U.S. Goldmining Announces 2025 Exploration Program Targeting Continued Growth At The District Scale Whistler Gold-Copper Project, Alaska

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) The 2025 exploration program expands the scope from previous seasons, which focused on delineating and growing the Whistler deposit. As the Company advances its previously announced initial assessment study (" PEA ") for the...

What caused the Alaska Airlines IT outage and what are my rights if my flight was cancelled?

What caused the Alaska Airlines IT outage and what are my rights if my flight was cancelled?

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

AP Business SummaryBrief at 2:50 a.m. EDT

Alaska Airlines resumes operations after tech outage grounds all flights Alaska Airlines says it has resumed operations following an undisclosed technical error affecting its entire system for approximately three hours. The carrier says in a...

America's terrible tariffs could actually be a huge win for Canada's economy

America's terrible tariffs could actually be a huge win for Canada's economy

The whole thing about Canadians is that they're remarkably nice. Except lately, they haven't been feeling so warm and fuzzy, namely toward their neighbors to the south. Given everything that's going on — President Donald Trump's on-and-off trade...

Full list of Alaska Airlines flights canceled after 'technical error' led to entire system outage

Full list of Alaska Airlines flights canceled after 'technical error' led to entire system outage

The full list of cancelled Alaska Airlines flights has been revealed after a technical error led to the airline's entire system being brought down for three hours. They have now resumed operations but some flights had to be cancelled. The carrier...

US Carrier Alaska Airlines Grounds All Flights Due To IT Outage

US Carrier Alaska Airlines Grounds All Flights Due To IT Outage

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) US carrier Alaska Airlines grounded all of its flights after experiencing an IT outage on Sunday that impacted its systems, the company said, without specifying the nature of the outage. "At approximately 8pm Pacific on...

Alaska loses $6 million of USDA funding towards farming and food business development

Alaska loses $6 million of USDA funding towards farming and food business development

HOMER, Alaska (KTUU) - On Tuesday, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) terminated its Regional Food Business Centers (RFBC) program. The program, which centered around supporting the growth of farming and food businesses, was...

New finance chief to visit US for urgent tariff talks

New finance chief to visit US for urgent tariff talks

Seasoned bureaucrat Koo Yun-cheol was inaugurated as South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister on Monday, ending a three-month leadership vacuum at the ministry tasked with resolving US tariff talks, accelerating tax reforms and...

Alaska US senators split votes on cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid

Alaska US senators split votes on cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid

Alaska’s two U.S. senators voted differently on a bill requested by President Donald Trump to block federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. The cuts include $1.1 billion for public broadcasting over two years, with more than $20...

Ohio showing it’s pro-business

Ohio showing it’s pro-business

Ohioans have always had an entrepreneurial and adventurous spirit. But according to a new report by CNBC, it now has the pro-business credentials to match. The news outlet ranked the top states in the country for business in 2025 — using 135...

Anchorage Summer Night Market

Anchorage Summer Night Market

Though Alaskans meet this year’s tourism season with uncertainty, locals in search of some free fun for the whole family have much to look forward to. Joining Downtown Anchorage’s summer lineup of events is the Anchorage Summer Night Market,...

Anchorage Residents Share Frustrations Around Ordinance Against Homelessness

Anchorage Residents Share Frustrations Around Ordinance Against Homelessness

The Assembly chambers were limited to standing room only on the evening of June 24th, where Anchorage residents waited hours to testify on AO 2025-74. The ordinance seeks to criminalize camping on public property with penalties of up to $2,000 in...

Letter: We just had our 50th Anchorage high school reunion. We hope today’s students have the same opportunities we did.

Letter: We just had our 50th Anchorage high school reunion. We hope today’s students have the same opportunities we did.

We celebrated our 50th high school reunion last month. Since Anchorage was a smaller town in 1975 with new schools opening and boundaries changing, we all had friends in other high schools. Many of us stayed in touch and decided, in addition to...

Trump Wants to Rescind the Roadless Rule. What Does That Mean?

Trump Wants to Rescind the Roadless Rule. What Does That Mean?

Most conservationists of a certain age have a Roadless Areas story. Mine began with a move to Oregon in the year 2000, and continued on trips with advocacy groups to visit forests where contentious timber plans had been planned. On one of those...

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