TRANSPORTATION
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MIAMI — Carnival Corp. is still on track to resume cruises in the U.S. on Dec. 1 after a favorable ruling from a federal judge Oct. 21. The company, on probation since 2017 after pleading guilty to... Read more
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A work group tasked with making recommendations to Gov. Mike Dunleavy for improving the financial viability of the Alaska Marine Highway System identified the issues raised by other analyses but... Read more -
A work group tasked with making recommendations to Gov. Mike Dunleavy for improving the financial viability of the Alaska Marine Highway System identified the issues raised by other analyses but... Read more
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Opening up the economy to help the country overcome the pandemic should be the priority, according to Rep. Don Young, who said he fears another multitrillion-dollar coronavirus relief package could... Read more -
Alaska Airlines has launched new passenger service to the Bristol Bay region despite the pandemic that has devastated the airline industry with the help of its sister airline’s smaller, more... 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.