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Way beyond the bolts: Agency hammers Boeing, FAA for Alaska door plug blowout over Portland
OregonLive.com
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July 11, 2025
The door plug blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 over Portland was the result of more than four missing bolts, the National Transportation Safety Board reiterated in its final investigation report into the incident released Thursday. The...
One year in, Anchorage Mayor LaFrance reflects on housing, homelessness and public safety
Alaska Public Media
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July 11, 2025
Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance began her term on July 1, 2024, after representing South Anchorage for six years on the Anchorage Assembly and unseating former mayor Dave Bronson. Upon completing her first year as mayor, LaFrance sat down with...
Can they beat 3,000? Tracking the nesting of Maine's beloved loon
WGME - Maine
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Mainers love their birds and so this summer we are telling you about a different bird each week with the help of Maine Audubon. In this Bird of the Week segment, Maine Audubon's Ethan Hobbs, a loon restoration technician, helps us get to know the...
NTSB Releases Final Report on Alaska Door Plug Failure
Flying Magazine
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July 11, 2025
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its final report on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 that lost a door plug shortly after takeoff out of Portland, Oregon, in January 2024. The 158-page report includes several pages of...
Kidnapped Nigeria priest who served in Alaska still held captive, sources say
The Catholic Register
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July 11, 2025
A Nigerian priest who previously served in Alaska remains missing after being captured by Boko Haram operatives in his homeland, OSV News has learned. Father Alphonsus Afina, assigned to several parishes across Alaska from September 2017 through...
Kidnapped Nigerian priest who served in Alaska still held captive, sources say
Detroit Catholic
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July 11, 2025
(OSV News) -- A Nigerian priest who previously served in Alaska remains missing after being captured by Boko Haram operatives in his homeland, OSV News has learned. Father Alphonsus Afina, assigned to several parishes across Alaska from September...
U.S. Travelers Rejoice After American Airlines Finally Caves And Reinstates Popular Rule Starting Now
The Travel
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July 10, 2025
Becoming an AAdvantage member comes with valuable perks. Loyalty program members can unlock new and exciting perks at the start of 2026, including free WiFi. That's not all. There are other incentives, such as a dining program, which can help...
Anchorage exhibit explores baseball history in Alaska’s far north region
Your Alaska Link
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Attention baseball fans — a new exhibit in downtown Anchorage is pitching a unique look at the history of the sport here in the Last Frontier. It’s called “Alaska Field of Dreams: Baseball in America’s Far North,” and it's on display now at the...
Anchorage Mayor LaFrance proposes criminalizing homeless camping near schools, trails and playgrounds
Alaska Public Media
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July 7, 2025
Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance wants to criminalize homeless camping in some places, including near streets, trails, playgrounds and schools. Eva Gardner, the city’s municipal attorney, worked on the proposal. “The purpose of criminal law isn't...
Massive Mobilization Forged the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Engineering News Record
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July 11, 2025
Moving hot oil across Arctic terrain was an unprecedented challenge following the discovery of America’s largest oil field in 1969 in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The first hurdle the Trans-Alaska Pipeline had to clear was environmental approval. The...
Shelves are bare on St. Paul Island as 10 tons of food sit stranded in Anchorage
KBRW - Alaska
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July 10, 2025
It's been more than a month since St. Paul Island had a full shipment of groceries. Foggy weather and a lack of reliable transportation have left the Bering Sea community waiting on thousands of pounds of food from Anchorage. "It's been over a...
Tourism urges boating fee ‘pause to save the summer’
The Tribune (Bahamas)
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July 7, 2025
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net The Bahamian tourism industry is urging the Government to “pause” the new and increased boating fees until end-October to “save the summer season” and ensure “we get it right”....
Boeing work instructions were inadequate for years before blowout on Alaska flight, NTSB finds
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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FILE - This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a gaping hole where the paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, Jan. 7, 2024, in Portland, Ore. The DOJ has launched a...
Yukon-based poet announces ‘Alaska Highway Poetry Crawl’ tour
Energeticcity.ca
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July 10, 2025
Peter Jickling will be making his way down the Alaska Highway for several Peace region dates later this month. (photo submitted by Peter Jickling) FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — A poet with extensive experience throughout his travels in Canada will descend...
Empire Archives: Juneau’s history for the week ending July 12
Juneau Empire - Alaska
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July 10, 2025
Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995, and 2005. The stories include names, AP style, and other content of their eras. This...
Deadliest Catch returns: Season 21 spotlights the struggling Alaska crab industry
National Fisherman - Alaska
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July 10, 2025 The red king crab fishery in Alaska has faced historic closures in recent years, leaving many harvesters sidelined and processors searching for opportunities elsewhere to meet demand. Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch returns for...
Must Read Alaska mistakes one John Williams for another in ‘on-brand’ blunder
The Alaska Current
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July 10, 2025
Renowned composer John T. Williams is not running for the U.S. House in Alaska. Nor is Cordova fisheries workforce specialist John D. Williams, whose biographical information filled out a post announcing the candidacy of a “John Williams” on the...
Have camera, will travel: Local photographer brings art to Brookings Summer Arts Festival
The Brookings Register - South Dakota
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By John KubalThe Brookings Register BROOKINGS — Art and the joy of adventure: that’s the theme the photographs of Casey Goodwin is bringing to booth No. 119 at the 2025 Brookings Summer Arts Festival. “I’d like to say that every print in there has...
Opinion: Anchorage needs a better way to prevent camps in high-risk areas
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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City workers clean up trash from a homeless camp along Chester Creek in May 2024. (Loren Holmes / ADN) One of the municipality’s core responsibilities is to ensure Anchorage’s public areas — our parks, trails, greenbelts, playgrounds, streets and...
Michael Tavoliero: The silver-lead lie, Alaska’s home rule, and the illusion of local control
Must Read Alaska
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July 10, 2025
By MICHAEL TAVOLIERO I remember being eight. Traveling down Silver Mine Road in the heat and humidity of a Brookfield, Connecticut summer. My world was small then. I played, rode a bike with no helmet, and stayed outside from morning to past dark....