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Alaska Tempers Earnings Expectations
[ News ]September 16, 2025 12:45 pm ET By Zach Vasile Alaska Air Group, the corporate parent of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, cautioned investors this week that its third quarter earnings could be slightly lower than initially projected....
Owner: Craig Fuller
Juneau's secondary glacial outburst flood crests earlier, lower than predicted
This story has been updated. Update, Tuesday: The National Weather Service has canceled the flood warning for Mendenhall Lake and River. Juneau’s second glacial outburst flood of the year crested Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at 9.6 feet. Original...
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Science NBC News Melting glacier creates a new island in Alaska, satellite images show
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A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites. The 2-square-mile island is a small mountain known as Prow Knob, which was once...
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Brief tuna bounty in Southeast Alaska spurs excitement about new fishing opportunity
In Alaska, a state famous for abundant salmon and huge, cold-water-loving crab, another type of fish is making a splash: tuna. Incursion of warm waters into Southeast Alaska coastal areas off Sitka and Baranof Island created a brief tuna jackpot...
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Scientists Just Found Arctic Algae That Can Move in Ice at –15°C
Image of an Arctic diatom (single-celled algae), showing the filaments that run down its middle and enable it to move. Credit: Prakash Lab If you were to slice a chunk of Arctic sea ice and peer at it under a microscope, you probably wouldn’t...
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Contributors to Scientific American’s October 2025 Issue
September 16, 2025 4 min read Contributors to Scientific American’s October 2025 Issue Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories By Jen Schwartz Chris Gunn The Lives of Dead Trees For almost 25 years...
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5.2 magnitude earthquake jolts Alaska
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A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska‘s Aleutian Islands early Tuesday morning, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The quake occurred at approximately 1 a.m. local time on September 16, with its epicenter located...
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Juneau braces for Mendenhall River flooding after glacial release
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Flooding concerns are back in our state capital. Juneau’s Mendenhall River is expected to crest again on Tuesday morning, just one month after flooding damaged 47 homes out of 800. Last month’s HESCO barriers helped reduce damage, but residents...
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Exploring Greenland on a luxury icebreaker that mixes science and swish comforts
One night, while sailing Greenland’s east coast, I stepped out onto my cabin’s balcony to take in the horizon. “It looks like the sun is rising,” I thought, but it was 11:53 p.m. There were several otherworldly instances like this, when I was...
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Yukon salmon data should be more centralized, argues researcher
In a study published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, researchers associated with the Pacific Salmon Foundation said Fisheries and Oceans Canada needs to make its salmon data more accessible Salmon populations aren’t...
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Alaska News Nightly: Monday, September 15, 2025
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Monday on Alaska News Nightly The Alaska Legislature prepares to sue the governor over an executive order they argue is invalid. Plus, major upcoming North Slope oil projects are on-track or even ahead of schedule. And, a La Niña climate pattern...
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FBI ‘aware’ of Anchorage health clinic data breach as hackers claim 60K patients impacted
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Days after an anonymous hacker group claimed they had leaked an additional 50,000 Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center patient records, an FBI spokesperson confirmed Monday they are aware of the claim. “The FBI Anchorage...
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Drone photos suggest a 2014 marine heat wave is still stunting orca growth, reproduction in Alaska
It’s well documented by now that the marine heatwave that hit the Pacific Ocean in 2014 had devastating effects on Alaska’s marine ecosystem and commercial fisheries. Now, scientists are uncovering long-term impacts on Alaskan killer whales...
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Anti-Trump tennis legend critic calls out Kari Lake after decision on breast cancer research
Martina Navratilova had a seven-word response to Kari Lake, just days after the tennis legend pointed the finger at Donald Trump in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death. Navatrilova, the tennis legend, has staunchly opposed Trump and his...
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A new trailer home in Anchorage costs $300,000. New city proposals aim to fix that.
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Kids walk through Dimond Estates Mobile Home Park in Anchorage on Monday. (Marc Lester / ADN) There hasn’t been a new mobile home park built in Anchorage in more than three decades, a recent report found, and most of the existing mobile home stock...
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Alaska Summit: Trump’s Theatre, Putin’s Win
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Image Source: Getty International politics can often be disorienting for authoritarian leaders. Domestic politics reinforces their self-image as dominant agents of power, through which they influence, impress upon, and effect change around them,...
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Alaska Airlines, Tampa International Airport and Journey Robotics recognised in industry’s definitive innovation awards
Share on LinkedInLinkedIn Share on TwitterTwitter Share on FacebookFacebook Share on RedditReddit Share on FlipboardFlipboard Share on TumblrTumblr Share via EmailGmail Share on WhatsAppWhatsApp FTE Global – the “CES of Aviation” which took place...
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Equipment fault led to Anchorage’s weekend 911 service outage
An Anchorage-based telecommunications company says “a fault in transport equipment” led to an outage that took down local 911 services for more than 24 hours over the weekend. “Our teams worked continuously through the weekend using spare...
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For Alaska, La Niña prediction only a 'thumb on the scale'
Alaskans and, really, the rest of the world can expect a La Niña climate pattern this winter. That could mean a potentially cooler-than-average winter. According to the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center, there’s a 71 percent...
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Department of Education cuts grants for schools serving high numbers of Alaska Native students
The U.S. Department of Education announced on Sept. 10 that it will cut millions in federal grants for its Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions program. Many Alaska institutions depend on that funding to keep certain programs and...
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