Alaska Flight Attendants Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract

Alaska Flight Attendants Overwhelmingly Ratify Contract February 28, 2025 - Today, Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants voted to ratify a new contract. The industry-leading three-year agreement provides an immediate, double digit wage increase for the 7,000 …

Planned Parenthood opens virtual health center for Alaska following Juneau closure

Planned Parenthood expanded access to health care in Alaska on Monday through a virtual center offering telehealth appointments. Patients can enter their zip code and select telehealth on the virtual health center’s search page. The center’s goal is to …

A prospector tried to sell his mining claims near Haines. The Alaska Mental Health Trust doesn’t want them.

For years, a prospector who discovered a controversial mineral deposit outside Haines has offered to sell federal mining claims to a state-run trust. That entity, the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, owns much of the land around the deposit and …

Alaska teens to participate in the United States Senate Youth Progran

Murkowski: In Alaska, We Do Have an Energy Emergency

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today voted against S.J.Res.10, a resolution to terminate the national energy emergency declared by President Trump on January 20, 2025. Murkowski spoke on the Senate floor in advance of the chamber’s …

Former Cordova residents win top retail honors at Alaska Symphony of Seafood 

A fishing company with roots in Cordova and a goal to share Alaska’s sustainably caught seafood with the world, won top honors in new retail product competition at the 2025 Alaska Symphony of Seafood.  Meghan Luck, co-founder of Fable Fish Company with her …

Alaska Air flight attendants ratify labor contract

(Reuters) - Alaska Air flight attendants have ratified a new three-year labor contract, a union representing the workers said on Friday. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, the union representing the attendants at the Seattle-based carrier, said that …

Cost questions stall bill that would offer Alaska students free meals

Taelyn Eriksen, a freshmen at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé, orders breakfast on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) The Alaska Legislature is looking at a bill from Rep. Maxine Dibert, D-Fairbanks, that would fund free …

Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it 

Alaska Among States Relying Most On Federal Education Funding

According to an Annual Survey of School System Finances conducted by the Census and the National Center for Education Statistics, Alaska is among the states that receives the most federal aid for education funding.   According to the Census Bureau, 13.3% …