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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...
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...
Alaska Man Monday - Everyone Loves a Parade!
Red State
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July 7, 2025
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. Summer’s here in full bloom in the Great Land, and with it comes tourists. Now, we like tourists. They contribute a lot to our local...
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....
Lie-flat seats and private jets: Premium travel takes off in the face of global headwinds
The Globe and Mail
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July 10, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Premium economy and business-class bookings have been propping up airline revenues amid a broader industry slowdown.jeremietardieu / 500px/iStockPhoto / Getty Images Gourmet meals, fully reclining seats, chaperones to...
Trying to Follow Cruise Rules in Juneau
Cruise Addicts - Georgia
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July 8, 2025
My buddy Don Terris and I just spent the day in Juneau, Alaska and we did something we have never done before: an evening whale watch. Also as we made our way off the cruise ship we learned ham is not allowed to be brought off the ship in to...
Unalaska tribal resolution honors Alaska flag designer's triumph over discrimination
Alaska Public Media
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July 10, 2025
It was on July 9, 1927, almost a hundred years ago, that Benny Benson ran the very first Alaska flag up a flagpole. He was the 14-year-old Alaska Native student who won a statewide contest for the flag's iconic design — eight stars of gold on a...
Just Another Day In Alaska: “Brown Bear Brings Her Cubs Right Next To Me”
Inspire More
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July 10, 2025
Picture this: You’re on a camping trip in Alaska. You’ve found the perfect spot on the beach. You sit down just in time to enjoy the sunset… and that’s when you spot something out of the corner of your eye. You look closer to discover that a mama...
Alaska’s 1st Bitcoin conference held in Juneau
Juneau Empire - Alaska
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July 7, 2025
The state’s first Bitcoin conference took place this weekend at Centennial Hall, bringing Bitcoin enthusiasts from around the country to Juneau. The conference was a networking opportunity for Bitcoin supporters. Among the Alaska speakers were...
6 fun things to do in the Anchorage area this weekend
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Black Barrel and the Bad Men perform at HatcherRomp at Skeetawk on July 13, 2024. (Chris Bieri / ADN) 7 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. Saturday; Skeetawk Ski Area, Palmer Some of Alaska’s finest musicians will perform at this two-day festival at the...
Dunleavy veto of increase for Alaska child care and infant learning funding draws concerns
Kodiak Daily Mirror - Alaska
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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...
Travelogue: A short two months in Greece, part 8
Mount Lake Terrace - Washington State
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July 7, 2025
The remains of a cult temple. (All photos by Nathaniel Brown unless otherwise noted) This is the eighth and final installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part...
Trains once ferried across the river from Baton Rouge to Anchorage. But where was Anchorage?
The Advocate - Louisiana
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The George S. Walker train ferry transports a train across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to the Anchorage railroad site in West Baton Rouge Parish in 1937. At this time, an engine on one side of the river put the train on the ferry. The...