TRANSPORTATION
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Finding ways to use your Alaska Airlines miles is about to get a little more difficult. Alaska and American Airlines announced Oct. 2 that they are scaling back their mileage plan partnership early... Read more -
Consultants tapped to take a comprehensive look at Anchorage’s long-challenged port renovation believe a third or more can be shaved off the project’s current ballpark price of approximately $1.9... Read more -
The largest vessel to be built in Homer hit the waves this fall in Kachemak Bay for its maiden voyage. The Goldbelt Seawolf, a 74 foot-long catamaran, launched from Homer earlier this month, headed... Read more -
The Alaska Railroad is looking for a partner to help it update and expand its cruise ship facilities in Seward in order to meet ever-increasing demand in the state’s tourism industry. Railroad... Read more -
As of now there are proposed cargo warehouse and transfer facility developments worth nearly $600 million at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. The wave of potential developments,... Read more
TOURISM & TRAVEL
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The Inland Empire 483 miles from the ocean wouldn’t qualify it as a “shore-side excursion” in the traditional sense but that’s exactly how Fairbanks is designated as thousands of cruise ship visitors make their way directly from the dock to the train or bus that takes them to Interior Alaska. -
Alaska has some of the highest hotel occupancy rates in the country on average in the short four-month period from May to September, enough to warrant yet four more hotels on the Anchorage landscape in addition to three that went up last summer.