TRANSPORTATION
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Alaska Air Group finished 2019 by netting $181 million in the fourth quarter, which capped a full-year profit of $769 million and put the airline company on track to hit its long-term financial... Read more -
A much-anticipated draft report outlining ways the State of Alaska could overhaul its ferry system largely confirms what many stakeholders have long suspected: some combination of deep service cuts... Read more -
A broader look at the potential benefits of increased infrastructure has spurred the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to grow plans for a bigger port in Nome. Utilizing authority approved by Congress in... Read more -
Beginning Jan. 1 it will be a little more expensive for most companies to move fuel and cement across the docks at the Anchorage port. That’s because the Anchorage Assembly approved new tariffs on... Read more -
The decisions made by state and federal officials in 2020 could go a long ways towards reshaping the Alaska’s transportation and logistics networks for decades to come. Those in the state Department... 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.