Rising gas prices squeeze Alaska drivers and their budgets

The average price of a gallon in the state costs about a dollar more today than it did a year ago, according to AAA.

School lunches are known more for soggy fries and pizza than salad and wild caught fish. But in Petersburg, students are eating fresh ingredients every day.

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The COVID pandemic, when oil prices went negative for a day, is the only time in the index’s nearly 20-year history when prices were more volatile than they are right now.

Alaska’s newest kelp hatchery recently finished its first growing season in a mobile shipping container in Kodiak. The hatchery aims to help kelp farmers on Kodiak Island boost how much they can grow.

Geopolitical tensions last year caused some international travelers to cancel their vacations to the United States, and locally, Alaska tourism operators were navigating a puzzle of uncertainty.

The ruling is in, but uncertainty isn’t over.

Alaska already has some of the most expensive coffee in the nation.

A group of businesses that call the pristine wilderness home is mobilizing against the mine, with the goal of keeping the coast wild.

The mine is in the middle of Lake Clark National Park, near the base of Mount Iliamna.