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Standout Startups: Favorite 2025 Arrivals
Votes for Best Startup of 2025 were so spread out that we decided to feature as many as possible. Meet newborn businesses dealing in firearms, flowers, photography, and more.
Robot Dogs and Radar Trails: Innovations in Land, Sea, and Air Transport
Advanced technology is helping to improve all aspects of transportation, from efficiencies to maintenance to scheduling. Learn more about some of what’s happening in Alaska to take advantage of developing tech.
Resurrecting Hope: Collaborating on Abandoned Mine Restoration
Kinross Alaska partnered with Trout Unlimited to restore Resurrection Creek, a stream near Hope damaged by placer mining a century ago.
Electrical Potential: EVs Off the Road System
Despite the high cost of energy in rural communities, electrifying personal vehicles makes sense, especially where gasoline or diesel are even more expensive. Weigh the pros and cons.
Holding Fast: Kelp Farms Seek Broader Market Base
When a major mariculture grant program ends this year, Alaska’s kelp farms will face one of their biggest tests thus far.
A New Ballgame for Port MacKenzie
Port MacKenzie is creating logistics and transportation opportunities for Upper Cook Inlet, and the Mat-Su Borough has plans for so much more.
NAWIC Rebuilds: Responding to Typhoon Halong
Members of the Alaska Chapter of National Association of Women in Construction share their experiences helping to rebuild in Western Alaska in the aftermath of Typhoon Halong.
What’s Up, Dock? Seward’s New Cruise Gateway
The revitalized Seward Cruise Ship Terminal is designed as Alaska’s largest turn port, where passengers begin or end a voyage and ships are fully reprovisioned.
Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame 2026
New approaches to roads and pipelines, electric grids, and building technologies earned Doug Goering, Clay Koplin, and Tom Marsik their spots in the Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame.
Cosmic Perspective: Building the UAF Planetarium
The largest planetarium in Alaska just opened on the UAF campus. Trace the work that went into designing and building a state-of-the-art space theater.
Alaska’s Most Common Occupations
Certain occupations in Alaska outnumber the state’s largest employers. Those workers form an invisible army of same-skilled peers scattered among smaller workplaces. Learn to appreciate the scale of the retail sales, fast food, and office clerical cohort.
Film Ascendant
A revival of film photography has businesses offering goods and services, as well as building community around this developing interest.
