3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (801+ words) Roughly 25 vacation rentals crowd a half-mile stretch along I Street in Anchorage’s South Addition neighborhood. In Girdwood, a single neighborhood block between Alpina Way and Tanner Circle contains 15. “It is still pretty striking just how prolific they are,” said Anchorage…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (235+ words) adn.com Letter: With 2030 fast approaching, it’s time to put a gas plan in motion Petroleum economist Roger Marks’ opinion piece in the Anchorage Daily News explains why Cook Inlet gas consumers are facing the importation of gas to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (428+ words) DEAR MISS MANNERS: The employees at the school I work at have been asked not to wear scents due to the alleged allergies claimed by a co-worker. The students have not been directed to do the same. So I arranged…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (372+ words) For a young person, a first paycheck can feel like freedom. It may also be the first time they decide how much goes toward rent, groceries, transportation, savings and the things that make life enjoyable. Those decisions arrive quickly, and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (479+ words) My friend Pete Leathard has a short fuse when it comes to talk of importing LNG, or liquefied natural gas. Leathard is a veteran manager of oil and gas service companies, now partly retired. Given his experience, when he speaks,…...

2+ week, 14+ hour ago   (511+ words) Forty-nine years after it began transporting crude oil from Prudhoe Bay, the trans-Alaska pipeline system is due for a regulatory renewal that will allow it to keep operating on federal lands into future decades. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (692+ words) For roughly the last 12 months, Alaskans witnessed one hell of a sales pitch. The Alaska LNG pipeline was no longer presented as a dream. This time, it was real. At the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in June of last year,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (418+ words) Willow takes recreation and public access seriously. This is why the Willow Area Community Organization unanimously passed a resolution opposing the conveyance of nearly 20,000 acres of state-owned land at no cost to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority for…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (580+ words) Newspapers used to stand tall and healthy in their communities across the country, Alaska included. But now, many stand like stricken spruce trees, falling victim to declining revenue and readership that eat away at their core, much like trees decimated…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1327+ words) Officials in Alaska have started readying for a tranche of military money to flow into the state in the years ahead. Though many of the details and exact figures are uncertain, politicians, economic development analysts and businesses are talking about…...