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Altogether, Ketchikan is expecting 632 port calls throughout the season, with 1.1 million passengers arriving directly in the downtown area.

Though other places in Alaska have experimented with electric transit, Juneau was the first city in the state to purchase an electric bus for its fleet.

The Alaska Railroad will be the first to transport liquefied natural gas by rail in the United States. The Alaska Railroad Corporation was granted permission by the Federal Railroad Administration to move LNG last year and testing is slated to start next week. LISTEN NOW

Alaska's Energy Desk reporter Nat Herz is exploring Hilcorp's company culture as it's set to become one of the biggest players in Alaska's oil industry. He's written an open letter to Hilcorp employees asking for their help.

Police in Anchorage, Palmer and Soldotna said that the outage had prevented GCI and Verizon customers from directly calling 911.

In the wake of chum salmon crashes in Western Alaska, subsistence fishermen have been pleading with the state to restrict commercial salmon fishing near the Alaska Peninsula. Commercial and subsistence fishermen have been using fish genetics to bolster their claims to the fish.

Rail workers at White Pass and Yukon Route, Skagway’s biggest employer and a major tourist attraction, have voted to authorize a strike.

The director of the Bureau of Land Management is visiting the North Slope this week. Over the next two days, director Neil Kornze will meet with Native corporations, local government officials, and community leaders in the region. On Tuesday, Kornze was helping cap two legacy wells south of Barrow. The Simpson Core and Iko Bay were both drilled by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s. They’re among 18 legacy wells the BLM plans to clean up this year.

Arctic Slope Regional Corp. collected $22.5 million from a pair of oil companies after Congress opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain to drilling in 2017, according to corporate documents.

The justices turned away the state’s attempt to sue the Biden administration directly over its desire to revive the mine, blocked last year by the EPA.

The FIG program’s Global Spice Blends has grown in popularity, providing job opportunities and community building for recently resettled refugees.

Multiple Alaska companies have partnered with tribal entities to secure federal broadband funds under the Biden-Harris administration.

Anchorage’s economy has lots of positive signs and job growth ahead, but not enough people for its anticipated job openings.

The Alaska Department of Transportation expects to issue a new request for proposals from American shipyards next month to replace the Tustumena.

Willow would be the first large project constructed in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

A registration program would be a first step toward regulating and taxing short-term rentals in Juneau, like those listed on AirBnB or VRBO.

Southeast trollers brought in about 85,000 king salmon from July 1 to July 12, around 8,000 fish over the target for the first opener of the season.

Thursday's decision effectively lets the U.S. government withdraw from a land swap allowing construction of the controversial King Cove road.