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You want to know—and we want to tell you—what’s happening with Alaska’s businesses: large corporations with thousands of employees or sole proprietorships filling a niche; manufacturers adding value to local resources or engineering firms with decades of specialized experience; or companies centralized in Southcentral or operating across Alaska’s slopes.
Browse below to get a comprehensive look of what’s happening—and why it matters.
Latest News
Operation Downtown Dine Out
Downtown parklets are becomming an option for eating safely outdoors.
Alaska Marine Lines Rail Barges Upgrade Ballast Systems
“These barges are the backbone of our rail operations and Central Alaska service. The updates will prepare them for another twenty years of service.”
KTUU Expands News Operations with Full-Time Reporter in Juneau
Multimedia Journalist Sean Maguire, who joined the Channel 2 News team in 2017, will lead the Southeast Bureau
Alaska Airlines Strengthens Face Covering Policy: No Mask, No Travel, No Exceptions
Passengers who do not comply with the requirement will not be permitted to travel.
Nearly $30 Billion in PPP, EIDL Funds Approved for Pacific Northwest Small Businesses, Nonprofits
Nationally the SBA has provided more than $660 billion in economic relief to small businesses across the country through the PPP, the EIDL, and the business loan debt relief program.
thread Awards $412K in COVID-19 Support to Child Care Statewide
thread recognizes the essential role Alaska’s early childhood education programs have in keeping children healthy while meeting the needs of families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
GCI Announces Sale of Broadcast Business
GCI subsidiary Denali Media Holdings (DMH) and Gray Television closed on their previously announced sale of KATH and KSCT, DMH’s NBC affiliates in the Juneau and Sitka markets. DMH also sold to Gray most of the assets of its Anchorage television station KTVA and its three CBS stations in Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan.
Banana Slugs Ooze Over Coastal Alaska
Pacific banana slugs live on the floor of coastal rain forests all the way south to California. Down there, where frosts are rare as 90 degree days here, the slugs grow long as pencils.
DNR to Pursue Safeguarding Stampede Trail Bus at UA Museum
The bus became well-known after Jon Krakauer’s 1996 book “Into the Wild” and a 2007 movie with the same name popularized the story of 24-year-old wanderer Chris McCandless, who sadly died there alone in 1992 after a 114-day stay at the site.
In This Issue
Industrial Support Services Sirectory
August 2020
The August issue of Alaska Business features the inaugural Industrial Support Services special section and directory in which we place a spotlight on the organizations that help keep the state’s industries running smoothly. Alaska’s network of support services companies is nearly as vast as the state itself, encompassing an extensive and varied collection of companies.