The cruise industry was already booming in Alaska, but some locals say its continued growth is putting a strain on the environment tourists come for.

The tax, which is enforced in several other Alaska cruise destinations, will target goods and services sold onboard within ...

Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst NEET'S BAY, Alaska -- Most ... cruise pier north of downtown for a short ride to a dock where we boarded a jet boat operated by Adventure Ketchikan Tours.

Some parts of Alaska are hard to reach, but this unique route will take you to all the best towns and tourist sites, and with ...

Empire Archives is a series printed every Saturday featuring a short compilation of headline stories in the Juneau Empire from archived editions in 1985, 1995 and 2005. They include names, AP style ...

Tom Stieghorst The ship's stop in Ketchikan was my first exposure to the new NCLH dock north of town, which opened in 2021 and is nicely done. A 20-minute shuttle ride takes you downtown.

Pond said the city is hoping to transform the downtrodden downtown area ... high for the city, Ketchikan, a town of 8,000 people on the southern tip of the Alaska border, sees approximately ...

Griffin Effenberger and Chris Lee have been playing basketball together since either of them can remember.

Alaska Airlines says it won’t raise fares, but competition from Delta has meant lower prices in cities across the state.

“It’s amazing to do the math and try to remember what was happening in the world back in 1825, when those snowflakes were ...

Members of the Federal Subsistence Board for Alaska are meeting in Anchorage from Feb. 4 through Feb. 7, and are scheduled to ...