Tag: Travel

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) – The City and Borough of Juneau will accept public proposals for projects to be funded with 2025 Marine Passenger Fee proceeds from December 2, 2024 through…

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon ALASKA (Alaska Beacon)- The average hourly wage in Alaska was $33.60 in 2023, putting the state in 11th place among all 50 states and the District…

Alaska, Juneau (KINY) – Juneau School District school buildings will be closed on Monday, December 2, due to heavy snow in the Juneau area and the potential for additional accumulation…

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon The Port of Seward, which serves a coastal Kenai Peninsula town that is a tourism hotspot in the summer, has received a $45.7 million grant to…

Yereth Rosen– Alaska Beacon Five additional air cargo companies have started operating this year at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, boosting an important sector of the economy in the…

Seattle (AP) — An apparent cyberattack disrupted internet, phones, email and other systems at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for a third day on Monday as Port of Seattle officials worked to…

Juneau, Alaska (AP)—Alaska authorities are searching for a missing airplane with three people onboard. Alaska State Troopers received a report from the U.S. Coast Guard of a missing plane shortly…

A nationwide technology outage is causing major disruptions across the United States, impacting 911 and non-emergency call centers. Alaska State Troopers report that emergency call systems throughout the state are…

Juneau, Alaska (AP) – Each year, a crush of tourists arrives in Alaska’s capital city on cruise ships to see wonders like the fast-diminishing Mendenhall Glacier. Now, long-simmering tensions over…

By: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon Only four of nine projects that the Legislature funded this year as part of an envisioned Alaska Long Trail network survived Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto…