TRANSPORTATION
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Alaska Air Group Inc. absorbed a loss of $214 million in the first full quarter of the coronavirus pandemic and the airline company could be forced to shed up to 7,000 jobs in the coming months if... Read more -
The group tasked with reforming the Alaska Marine Highway System said a $24 million subsidy proposed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to run the system is insufficient. The Alaska Marine Highway Reshaping Work... Read more -
An auction after the July 4 holiday may decide the future of Ravn Air Group, Alaska’s largest rural airline. Ravn filed for bankruptcy protection in April, and on Thursday, a Delaware bankruptcy... Read more -
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Trump administration has taken the final step to allow rail shipments of liquefied natural gas, a new front in the movement of energy products that had been opposed by... Read more
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A long-sought plan for a deepwater port in Western Alaska appears to finally be gaining momentum. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite approved a $618 million plan June 1... 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.