TRANSPORTATION
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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 -
The backers of a new rail line to link Alaska to Canada and Lower 48 markets insist it would generate upwards of $5 billion of freight revenue through the state. Alaska-Alberta Railway Development... Read more -
Anchorage is getting a $25 million shot in the arm to help rebuild its long beleaguered port. Municipal officials announced Nov. 6 that they will receive a $25 million grant from the federal... 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.