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Valdez Totem Hotel and Suites Kicks Off the State’s Summer Travel Season Gray Media © Provided by Anchorage KTUU-TV Alaskas News Source Sponsored - It’s the middle of May and this year, like most years, travel in the state of Alaska is starting to bustle. Airlines add flights, hotels increase the number of staff, restaurants finalize menus and tour companies open their doors. The Totem Hotel and Suites in Valdez is ready and looking forward to doing what they do best – ...

More than a ‘kitschy vestige of times past’: The Spenard palm tree comes home Megan Pacer © Provided by Anchorage KTUU-TV The palm tree at the Paradise Inn is shown before the hotel was acquired by the federal government and the tree taken down. (KTUU) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Like Odysseus striving to reach Ithaca, the iconic Spenard palm tree — at once a symbol of a neighborhood blight and of enduring community funkiness — has had a long journey full of twists and...

Copy Link Thick coastal forests with redwood trees can store double the amount of carbon per acre compared to shrubbier, smaller forests in inland areas of California.  (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Along the coast of Northern California near the Oregon border, the cool, moist air off the Pacific sustains a strip of temperate rainforests. Soarin...

The Agassiz Glacier is also in Glacier park, a vast area that encompasses over 1m acres (404,685 hectares) and parts of two mountain ranges. The landscape here has been carved out by glacial action over millennia. These images record the decline of Agassiz between 1913 and 2007. The Columbia glacier is a large tidewater glacier, flowing down the side of the Chugach mountain towards Prince William Sound in south-eastern Alaska. False-colour images, captured by Landsat satellites, show how the gl...

The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere ProPublica 4 hrs ago ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was co-published with MIT Technology Review. Along the coast of Northern California near the Oregon border, the cool, moist air off the Pacific sustains a strip of temperate rainforests. Soaring redwoods and Douglas firs dominate these thick, ...

Print article Were making this important information available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider supporting independent journalism in Alaska, at just $1.99 for the first month of your subscription. Alaska on Wednesday reported 183 coronavirus infections and no deaths linked to COVID-19, according to data from the Department of Health and Social Services. A slight increase in the daily case rate since March has somewhat...

I pulled into my kids’ preschool at 3:29 P.M., jumped out of the minivan, and ran inside. I’d squeezed in a two-hour rope-soloing session at the local crag after finishing work early that afternoon, and I was just in time for afternoon pickup.  “Mom! Quinn and Adaline invited us to go to the fairy houses!” my five-year-old daughter, Eloise, said. “Can we go?” I looked at the girls’ mothers, who nodded. We were, indeed, invited to the Fluttery Thicket, a fanciful temporary art ins...

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Nearly 130 individual volunteers performed more than 7,000 hours of service on the Chugach and Tongass National Forests in 2020, which the Forest Service highlighted in a release during National Volunteer Week.

Where to Eat, Stay, and Play in Anchorage Bailey Berg © Getty Alaska Cotton with Denali reflected in pond, Denali National Park, Alaska Wreathed by the Chugach State Park, a half-million-acre natural playground with 5,000-foot peaks on one side, and the waters of the Cook Inlet on the other, you’re never too far from adventure in Anchorage. Just minutes away from shops, restaurants, craft breweries, and museums are world-class hiking routes, 100-plus miles of bike trails, a...

Alaska Native people deserve what they were promised As leaders of Alaska Native corporations, we want to make clear why we took our fight for our people and communities to the nation’s highest court Author: Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Regional Association (Courtesy photo) As leaders of Alaska Native corporations, we want to make clear why we took our fight for our people and communities to the nation’s highest court The ANCSA Regional Association Board of Directors Alaska Nat...