The attraction — the brainchild of Iditarod champ Dallas Seavey — can carry up to five passengers as high as 30 stories into the air. Residents are divided on its merits.
The development will be the largest since the hotel was built in 1994, hotel representatives said.
Small independents did the bidding in Wednesday’s oil and gas lease sale that netted the Alaska Department of Natural Resources $451,594 from eight bids.
Nearly 90 percent of Pedro Bay Corp. shareholders voted last month to let the Conservation Fund buy easements on more than 44,000 acres and make the land off limits to future development - including a road crucial to the mining proposal.
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Manufacturers and suppliers are struggling to keep up with demand amid disrupted supply chains.
Roughly 29 wheelchairs a day have been mishandled by airlines since they were required to begin officially reporting numbers.
It can take hours to fully charge an electric vehicle at most stations. The auto industry wants to cut charging times down to five or 10 minutes.
Fishery managers forecast a statewide catch topping 190 million salmon this year, 61% higher than the 2020 take of just over 118 million.
While Alaska hasn’t seen the same boom as some places in the Lower 48, where remote workers flooded vacation destinations in droves, a smattering of people have found the state an ideal place to settle for the moment.
Royal Caribbean will require passengers 16 and older on Alaska-bound cruises to be vaccinated, with the age threshold dropping to 12 years old starting Aug. 1.
The company said it has decreased emissions at Alaska fields where it operates.
If Florida wins an injunction blocking a conditional sailing order, it would “end cruising in Alaska for the season” because the bill that allows cruise trips to Alaska hinges on the CDC order being in effect, the CDC’s lawyers say.
The Alaska Energy Authority hopes to have an electric vehicle corridor in the Railbelt, including 10 to 14 charging stations, built out in 2022.
The proposals would have banned cruise ships in the Alaska capital on Saturdays, restrict their daily operating hours and prohibit specific large ships.
The list includes a plethora of products marketed to parents desperate to get their babies to sleep.
A state biologist said he’s hopeful the late, cool spring and resulting colder water have held many fish back from entering the river on a more traditional schedule.
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The Interior Department will also conduct a “comprehensive” environmental analysis of the oil and gas program in the refuge, which Congress approved in 2017 at the urging of Alaska’s congressional delegation after decades of failed attempts.
Of the new applicants, six plan to grow kelp in waters of Kodiak, Yakutat and Cordova, and one intends to farm oysters at Sitka.
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