Alaska Air executes leadership shuffle with new Alaska COO and Horizon CEO

Alaska Air Group has appointed Jason Berry as new chief operating officer of Alaska Airlines, with Andy Schneider taking over as chief executive and president of regional subsidiary Horizon Air. Berry will replace retiring Constance von Muehlen in...

Challenger Learning Center of Alaska to Close After 25 Years

After a quarter century of inspiring Alaska students through space-themed missions and hands-on science, the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska will close by the end of December. The nonprofit’s board of directors voted this week to dissolve the...

Alaska’s Ryan Air Orders BETA Technology Electric Plane For Cargo Duty

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Electric airplanes are no longer a science-fiction dream or the stuff of Popular Mechanics magazine covers. As we reported a few weeks ago, Bristow Norway, a Norwegian...

Alaska political leaders and young conservatives gather for Charlie Kirk vigil at UAA

Delana Fernandez attended the vigil for Charlie Kirk at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus on Thursday. (Bill Roth / ADN) Alaska Republican leaders, young conservatives and other Anchorage residents...

Ethena’s $4.05B Market Cap Shines Amid $20M UAE Investment Rally

Ethena (ENA) is a leader in synthetic stablecoin solutions in the unstable world of decentralised finance, where software makers and macroeconomic volatility collide. ENA is trading at $0.588, which is slightly up by 1.39% over the past 24 hours....

Feeling Bullish or Bearish? What the Market Will Do Next

Katami’s fat bears are winning votes, but on Wall Street, the bulls are running. What happens next after more market highs … Eric Fry’s latest recommendation … the growth story that underpins the AI Megatrend Alaska is the only place you can find...

Alaska Airlines rolls out its PFD sale with 3 sets of special offers

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 en route to Juneau departs to the north from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport while a Hawaiian Airlines Airbus 330-200 passenger jet is parked at Concourse C in the distance on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025....

Alaska Psychedelics Legalization Campaign Begins Gathering Signatures

Petitioners for an Alaska campaign to legalize psilocybin, psilocin, DMT, and non-peyote mescaline have started to collect signatures to pose the question to voters in next year’s election, Marijuana Moment reports. The Alaska Natural Medicine...

Alaska governor presses Trump to green-light graphite mine, citing jobs and national security

Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R-AK) on Friday urged the Trump administration to prioritize the development of a major graphite mine that is pending federal approval. In June, the Graphite Creek project became the first mine in Alaska to become part of the...

India's HDFC Bank banned from accepting new clients in Dubai

India's HDFC Bank said it has been barred from accepting new clients at its Dubai International Financial Centre branch, a move aimed at streamlining the onboarding process for its customers. Mumbai-based HDFC, India's biggest private lender by...

Opinion: Alaska’s congressional delegation’s support for the Epstein cover-up is an abomination

FILE - The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, Aug. 12, 2022. The Democratic-led House passed a short-term spending bill on Friday that finances the federal government through mid-December and provides another infusion of military and economic aid to...

Inside the Fight Against Trump’s Alaskan Pipe Dream

In a xenophobic, hate-filled speech laden with lies and disinformation, President Donald Trump declared before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that climate change is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” and railed...

Jason Berry named COO of Alaska Airlines, retains group cargo role

Jason Berry, currently President of Horizon Air and Executive Vice President of Cargo at Alaska Air Group, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Alaska Airlines. He will continue to lead the cargo business for the group. Berry...

Tianjin’s Pragmatic Turn in a Fractured Global Economy

A Summit Beyond Ceremony It has been more than two weeks since leaders gathered in Tianjin for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. At first glance, it might have seemed like another diplomatic ritual. Yet the outcomes and debates...

Alaska US Rep. Nick Begich III visits Bethel and upriver Kuskokwim villages

Republican U.S. Rep. Nick Begich III – Alaska’s sole representative in the United States House of Representatives – visited upper and middle Kuskokwim communities this week, making stops in Aniak and Bethel, as well as other smaller villages...

University of Alaska Anchorage researchers look to solve Alaskans' problems with AI

Researchers at the University of Alaska Anchorage are looking for community problems to solve using artificial intelligence. Kenrick Mock, the dean of UAA’s College of Engineering, said researchers are casting a wide net. "What we're doing is...

How Do Alaska’s Final Paid Sick Leave Rules Differ from the Proposed Rules?

The Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development’s final rules implementing the paid sick leave provisions of Ballot Measure 1 (2024) became effective September 25, 2025. Previously, we highlighted what the proposed rules included. Here, we...

Alaska residents fear rising energy costs as Trump seeks to drill

For people living in tiny fishing towns in Alaska, boosting wind and solar power would help lower exorbitant electricity prices, but this solution to high costs is under threat now that the government is cutting federal funding for renewable...

Career fair connects Anchorage students with job opportunities

The Dena’ina Center was full of activity, with students getting a chance to explore all types of career paths. Over 110 booths are here representing a variety of industries and businesses, ranging from emergency services to government job...

Anchorage to expand stablecoin team ahead of USAT launch

Anchorage Digital Bank is ramping up hiring as it prepares to more than double its stablecoin unit. The federally chartered crypto-native bank plans to expand its current 20-person stablecoin team over the next 12 months as demand for crypto...