Today our contributor Karen of Alaska Trippers is sharing her family’s favorite things to do in Juneau with kids. The visit ...

Haines is not the only community interested in mapping the risk. Similar projects have been completed or are underway in more ...

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America itself. On his first day back in office, he signed an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Denali, ...

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Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali — ...

For the first time in Alaska history, the state’s supreme court is majority female. It’s also being led, for just the second ...

Bill Walker. She sat down for an interview with the Alaska Beacon on Tuesday, ahead of the annual State of the Judiciary address to the Legislature, in Juneau. “I think it’s great,” she said ...

Many travelers make the trek to Alaska for two things: glaciers and whales. The latter can be a bit more elusive to spot, which is why it's best to sign up for a whale watching tour. In Juneau ...

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The city of Monterey effectively banned cruise ships from docking at its shores. Two years later, at what cost did this have ...

Just four days after castigating cruise ships as “monsters of the seas” that “pollute and dump their low-cost clientele”, Estrosi signed an official decree prohibiting vessels carrying more than 900 ...