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City advances effort to build RV resort in downtown Anchorage
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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A rendering of a proposed RV resort at 3rd Avenue and Ingra Street. (Courtesy Anchorage Community Development Authority) A city-led effort to turn a 15-acre field that once housed the Alaska Native Medical Center into an RV park and a mixed-use...
'Sharp contrasts': Tourism sees international 'headwinds', domestic travel resilience
Stillwater County News - Montana
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Is the glass half-full or half-empty for travel and tourism this year? International travel to the U.S. faces some “sentimental headwinds” with Canadians, Europeans and other travelers having negative views of President Donald Trump and his...
Blood Bank of Alaska urgently seeks O- and O+ donors amid summer shortage
Your Alaska Link
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The Blood Bank of Alaska is issuing an urgent plea for help. They're in critical need of O Negative and O Positive blood donors, and they’re asking Alaskans to roll up their sleeves and save lives. Only about 7% of the population has O Negative...
KVRR Connections Tourism: Medora marks a major milestone in North Dakota’s Badlands
KVRR - North Dakota
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July 9, 2025
MEDORA, N.D. (KVRR) — The most popular tourist attraction in North Dakota is Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Ranking high on the list is Medora in the south unit of the park and home to the Medora Musical, which just turned 60. It was started by...
Opinion: The federal debt bill is a disaster for Alaska’s economy
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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A four-wheeler travels a road in Bethel in November 2023. (Marc Lester / ADN) Most of the reporting on the recently passed federal budget has focused on the massive increase in federal debt and deep cuts to Medicaid. These should be a concern for...
Rural Alaska Honors Institute will celebrate 43rd graduation
Alaska Native News
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July 9, 2025
Photo by Deandra Nicholai Members of the RAHI Class of 2025 pose for a group photo to mark the start of their Angel Rocks hike on June 7 The Rural Alaska Honors Institute will hold its 43rd annual graduation July 10 at 1 p.m. in Schaible...
New Website Aims to Boost Dodge County Tourism
Daily Dodge - Wisconsin
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July 9, 2025
(JUNEAU) Dodge County has unveiled its new brand and website to attract more visitors to the area. The new brand was established during a strategic planning process with the county and local stakeholders. The project’s Community Development...
Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition coming
Great Bend Tribune - Kansas
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Ellinwood School/Community Library is one of 50 U.S. libraries newly selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association (ALA) that examines the motives,...
Your Favorite Campgrounds, Hiking Trails, and Forests Could Soon Be up for Auction
The Good Men Project - California
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July 9, 2025
By Joseph Winters, Grist “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Among the several controversial proposals emerging from the U.S. Senate this week as it considers the tax and spending bill that...
Gov. Dunleavy veto of increase for Alaska child care and infant learning funding draws concerns
Alaska Beacon
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July 9, 2025
The budget vetoes that Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued last month included millions of dollars proposed by the Legislature to bolster child care and early intervention services for children with disabilities or developmental delays. Dunleavy...
Anchorage’s Klaire Rhodes repeats as Mount Marathon women’s champ
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Anchorage's Klaire Rhodes reaches the top of Mount Marathon in the lead during the 2025 race in Seward on July 4, 2025. (Loren Holmes / ADN) SEWARD — In the past few years, Klaire Rhodes has established herself as a world-class trail runner. The...
Cinematic landscapes, epic wildlife spotting and plenty of ice – our unforgettable family cruise through Alaska
The Independent
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July 9, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
PAT NEAL: Telling the truth to tourists
Peninsula Daily News - Washington State
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July 9, 2025
NOW THAT THE tourists are here, it’s easy to remember why there’s a season on them. The Olympic Peninsula is a recreational wonderland that encompasses a diverse variety of really cool biomes from ocean beaches to rainforests to alpine tundra and...
Following raid, video shows Haines wildlife center owner traveling to Alaska zoo to check on animals
Alaska's News Source
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July 8, 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A new video posted July 4 by Kroschel Film Wildlife Center owner Steve Kroschel, shows him traveling from Haines to the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage asking staff about animals that a search warrant obtained by Alaska’s News...
Anchorage locals and tourists alike celebrate the Fourth of July
Your Alaska Link
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All across Anchorage, locals and tourists alike are celebrating the holiday in their own unique and special ways. For some, it's their first time in the state, and they are excited to see all Alaska has to offer. Dwaner Clark, who is visiting for...
My week in Alaska reminded me of the importance of disconnecting
Oak Ridger - Tennessee
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Ray Bradbury’s prophetic Fahrenheit 451 paints a truly terrifying picture of humanity: “Gray animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues and gray thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face.” That...
Where were the cheapest places to fill up on E15 gas in cities in Juneau County in week ending June 28?
SW Wisconsin News
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July 9, 2025
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Mark C. Christie | www.ferc.govFederal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Mark C. Christie | www.ferc.gov There was a single gas station in cities across Juneau County selling...
More than half of East Coast beaches tested positive for fecal contamination, shocking new study reveals — how did your vacation spot do?
New York Post
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July 8, 2025
Hold your nose — and maybe hold off on that beach day. More than 60% of U.S. beaches tested in 2024 had at least one day where the water was so full of fecal bacteria that it failed federal safety standards, according to a new report by...
For Anchorage’s Lars Arneson, Near is dear
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Anchorage's Lars Arneson, pictured on a hike of Near Point, is one of the state's most decorated trail runners. (Photo by Matt Tunseth) This is the first installment of “My Alaska Outdoors,” a series of stories and short videos about Alaskans...
Former Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell joins Bernadette Wilson campaign, calls her the leader Alaska needs
Must Read Alaska
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July 8, 2025
Former Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell has been named chairman of Bernadette Wilson’s campaign for Alaska governor, lending his decades of political and military leadership to support Wilson’s bid to lead the state after the 2026 general election. In a...