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Southwest’s Q3 Ends $277 Million in the Black Southwest Airlines’s Q3 fiscal earnings showed $277 million profit on record gross revenue of $6.2 billion, a 33% increase from Q3 a year ago. The record earnings for the airline came despite an $18 million hit from Hurricane Ian and its aftermath in southwest Florida. On the […]
A black bear crosses a log at Anan Creek. (Sage Smiley/KSTK) Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week contest, where the public votes on Southwestern Alaska’s fattest bears, is an international sensation. A smaller bear-viewing site in Southeast Alaska has kicked off its own bear awards this year, but the focus isn’t just on the rotundity of the area’s […]
Governor Mike Dunleavy was joined by U.S. Representative Mary Peltola and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell to discuss the federal and state response to the storm damage in western Alaska. “Thank you to Administrator Criswell for flying to Alaska to see the impacts firsthand,” said Governor Dunleavy. “We’re counting on FEMA and […]
Anthime Gionet livestreamed himself breaching the Capitol in a nearly 30-minute video that showed him encouraging others in the mob to enter the building and saying, “We ain’t leaving this b*tch,” according to his latest plea agreement filed Friday. Prosecutors have said in court filings that his livestream helped identify other rioters and led to […]
Activist Tim Gionet, who goes by the name “Baked Alaska” on the internet, addresses a rally of self-proclaimed White Nationalists and “alt-right” supporters at what they called a “Freedom of Speech” rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, June 25, 2017. REUTERS/Jim Bourg Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register […]
Alaska has seen more than 500 forest fires since the beginning of April, which have forced the evacuation of mining camps, villages, and remote cabins. By 15 June, more than 1m acres (405,000 hectares) in the state had already gone up in flames, about the amount of acres that would normally burn in an entire […]
A North Pacific right whale, the world’s most endangered great whale, spotted in the southeastern Bering Sea in 2004. (Photo by John Durban/NOAA Fisheries) The U.S. government on Monday agreed to a request from environmental groups to study increasing critical habitat designations in Alaska waters for North Pacific right whales, one of the rarest whale […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska wildlife officials have killed four black bears in a campground recently reserved for people in Anchorage who are homeless after the city’s largest shelter was closed. Employees from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday killed a sow and her two cubs and another adult bear that was acting […]
Sarah Palin, Nick Begich III, Al Gross and Mary Peltola hold the lead in the special primary for U.S. House. The Division of Elections has updated results in the special primary for U.S. House and the finish order remains unchanged. Republican Sarah Palin lost a percentage point in the latest count, to 28%. Republican Nick […]
The initial results released by the state Division of Elections included 108,729 votes. It was not immediately clear how many ballots were outstanding. The division reported late Saturday that it had received about 139,000 ballots so far. Ballots had to be postmarked by Saturday. The top four vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, will advance to […]