NPR

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The 2020 census officially starts in an Alaskan fishing village along the Bering Sea. Starting the count there in January, when the ground is frozen, makes it easier to reach far-flung communities.

Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

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The pilots who fly in and out of the Anchorage airport must wield their controls with steady hands and nerves of steel. Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, the largest seaplane base in the world, averages 190 takeoffs and landings per day. T

AFAR

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At 665,384 square miles, Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas. The state—nicknamed the Last Frontier for its abundance of uninhabited, unexplored land—is home to eight national parks, some 100,000 glaciers, and more than 98 percent of the Unit

Cobblestone American History and Current Events for Kids and Children

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Ocean waters determine most of Alaska’s extensive coastal boundaries. But the story of its land border with Canada spans more than 75 years. The saga started decades before the United States owned any part of its biggest state. Russia’s mainland li

The Christian Science Monitor

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When it comes to taking action on climate change, Anchorage isn’t waiting around for federal – or even state – support.

Cobblestone American History and Current Events for Kids and Children

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For nearly 200 years, the Spanish were sure that an island existed off the coast of North America. They drew maps that showed a large landmass in the Pacific Ocean. They never actually explored it, but they claimed that Amazon-like women and flying g

Travel and Leisure Southeast Asia

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MY WIFE AND I told people we were going to Alaska for five days. “On a cruise?” they asked. “To see glaciers? Eagles? The wilderness?” When we admitted that we would mostly be staying in Anchorage, their faces fell. “That will still be nice,” they sa

The Saturday Evening Post

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When you’re in grizzly country, it’s a good idea to give the hosts a heads-up when paying a visit. Don’t want any awkward moments. So, after our two eight-person skiffs make land, before we even get to the woods, our guides are already shouting “Whoo

High Country News

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WHEN EVA DAWN BURK first saw Calypso Farm and Ecology Center in 2019, she felt enchanted. Calypso is an educational farm tucked away in a boreal forest in Ester, Alaska, near Fairbanks. To Burk, it looked like a subarctic Eden, encompassing vegetable

High Country News

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119 Grand Avenue PO Box 1090 Paonia, CO 81428 U.S. $5 | Canada $6 ALICE QANNIK GLENN Creator of the podcast Coffee & Quaq Anchorage, Alaska I work full-time on Coffee & Quaq, a podcast that celebrates and explores contemporary Native life in urban an

NPR

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Officials hope the added incentive of the vaccine will attract visitors. It's part of an effort to jump start a floundering summer tourism industry that's been devastated by the pandemic.

PassageMaker

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NAME David and Darcy Saiget AGES 63, 50 HOME PORT Cordova, Alaska CURRENT BOAT 1932 H.C. Hanson Sea Bear YEARS OWNED 4 David has been working on boats since the early 1980s, when he first ventured up to Alaska to seek a job on a fishing boat. He’s al

NPR

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The Alaskan city just had its hottest and driest June ever, with average daily temperatures 5 degrees above normal. Crews are also battling wildfires across the state.

World War II

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IT’S RAINING THE DAY MY TRAIN RATTLES through the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel and comes to a halt in front of a rail yard in Whittier, Alaska. I disembark beside a small harbor crowded with fishing vessels and pleasure yachts and absorb the view.

Los Angeles Times

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A powerful 7.0 earthquake followed by a swarm of strong aftershocks rocked southern Alaska on Friday morning, cracking or collapsing several roads in Anchorage, flinging items off their shelves and sending students and professionals for cover beneath

AppleMagazine

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Amazon will be sorting through 238 proposals from cities and regions in the United States, Canada and Mexico that are hoping to land the company’s second headquarters and the investment it’ll bring. The online had retailer kicked off its hunt for a s

AppleMagazine

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Princess Daazhraii Johnson grew up eating dried salmon and moose-head soup — foods labeled weird by other kids who had no understanding of her culture and traditions. Now the Fairbanks woman and other Alaska Natives are presenting their world to a ge

The Atlantic

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A little more than a decade ago, Ron Illingworth and his wife, Marji, planted 25 peony roots on their family farm in North Pole, Alaska. They did it on a whim, really, curious whether the bright, ruffled blossoms would thrive alongside the runner bea

NPR

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The 2020 census is set to begin in Toksook Bay, Alaska, continuing the tradition of counting the most remote parts of the most northern state before the rest of the U.S.

TechLife News

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Amazon will be sorting through 238 proposals from cities and regions in the United States, Canada and Mexico that are hoping to land the company’s second headquarters and the investment it’ll bring. The online had retailer kicked off its hunt for a s

TechLife News

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Princess Daazhraii Johnson grew up eating dried salmon and moose-head soup — foods labeled weird by other kids who had no understanding of her culture and traditions. Now the Fairbanks woman and other Alaska Natives are presenting their world to a ge

AppleMagazine

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Alaska has been America’s canary in the coal mine for climate warming, and the yellow bird is swooning. July was Alaska’s warmest month ever, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Sea ice melted. Bering Sea fish swam in ab

Ski Magazine

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I’M BUCKLING THE SEAT BELT IN AN A-STAR HELICOPTER, trying to keep my act together—and the struggle is real. e magnitude of the unknown lying before me has become palpable. Not only am I about to make my first turns in Alaska, but I’m getting a heli

Backpacker

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AT ITS BEST, the Shoup Bay Trail is a sampler of what makes Alaska great. For 10 miles, the route traces the shoreline of Valdez and Shoup Bays, passing through alder forest and flower-filled meadows on its way to views of Shoup Glacier. But last sum

Powder

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“CAN YOU SEE IT? The chairlift on the ridge?” Cody Barnhill steered the minivan north on Anchorage’s Glenn Highway. It was morning rush hour. The nondescript cityscape of an American suburb passed by the window: strip malls and pawn shops, dead trees

Los Angeles Times

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NAKNEK, Alaska - For the hundreds of salmon fishing crews plying Bristol Bay during this summer's sockeye season, public radio station KDLG is essential listening. They tune into 670 AM each evening for bulletins on the shifting boundaries of the fis

TechLife News

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Alaska has been America’s canary in the coal mine for climate warming, and the yellow bird is swooning. July was Alaska’s warmest month ever, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Sea ice melted. Bering Sea fish swam in ab

Anglers Journal

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The biologists at the fisheries office in Nome, Alaska, gave me a tip: There were still late-run sockeye 40 miles inland on the Nome-Teller Road at the outlet to aptly named Salmon Lake. The drive was one of those peak experiences you never forget. A

NPR

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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy slashed $130 million, or 41%, from the budget of a university system that serves more than 26,000 students. Layoffs, elimination of programs and campus closures are likely.

Ships Monthly

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In 1969 Princess Cruises, using the chartered cruise ship Italia, undertook its first summer season cruising to Alaska, and in 2019 marked 50 years of Alaskan cruising. P&O sent Arcadia to Alaska the following year, and in 1973 Princess Cruises retur