Business/Economy

Anchorage also gets a Crumbl Cookies location, a Tex-Mex restaurant, a paint store and a walking tour business, and a coffee shop has expanded.

Chevron and Hilcorp have relinquished leases for a small tract of Alaska Native corporation-owned land within the refuge’s boundaries.

AltaGas said it will sell Enstar to another Canada-based company.

The utilities say the upgrades will allow them to take more advantage of low-cost renewable power.

The union has been stalled for years trying to negotiate a contract that addresses concerns about work rules, scheduling flexibility and career security.

Pebble critics hope the EPA will stop the mine for good this time. The vast mineral deposit is located near headwaters of the world’s most valuable salmon fishery

Microreactors are largely in the research phase, and any installation of a microreactor would not happen for several years, the governor’s office said.

A sizable number of the millions of employees who switched jobs in the past two years found that interviewers, desperate to hire, oversold the jobs they offered.

ConocoPhillips Alaska said the reservoir is expected to produce up to 20,000 barrels of oil per day, adding to Alaska North Slope oil production rates that lately have run near 500,000 barrels daily.

The solar project is owned by the tribal governments in Shungnak and Kobuk, who are selling the power to rural Alaska’s largest electric utility.

A scarcity of seasonal employees and housing complicates what’s expected to be a strong summer for Seward’s visitor industry. It’s a problem testing businesses statewide.

The biggest year-over-year gain was in the leisure and hospitality sector, which had about 3,900 more jobs last month than in April 2021.

Aging infrastructure, climate change and global conflict are going to keep fuel prices in more parts of rural Alaska unmanageably high, and potentially worse.

The oil company says it has spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire its leases and could lose its competitive advantage if the well data is released.

The notice has prompted the utilities to take a long-term look at their energy needs and new prospects like renewables.

The discussion became hateful and resulted in personal attacks.

Holland America has downsized its fleet, reducing the number of ships that once brought 1,500 visitors to Anchorage at a time. Still, observers say the economic impact will be limited.

Passengers whose travel plans have been severely disrupted found little help from the airline in finding alternative ways to their destination, with customer service phone lines citing hold times of up to 10 hours.

Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan pushed back at the assertion, saying high oil prices could lead to more interest. “You just don’t always know until you hold a sale,” he said.

The NOAA report said there were 51 fish stocks on the federal government’s “overfished list” in 2021. Bering Sea snow crabs were among the stocks added to the list.

The CDC’s cruise-ship status report shows that 76 of 92 ships in U.S. waters reported cases of the coronavirus on board as of last week.

The Interior Department cited a lack of interest from oil companies in the Alaska lease sale, as well as legal obstacles and a time crunch, as reasons for nixing the auctions.

The oil company blamed the leak on a component of a well that failed during an operation that put too much pressure on the well.