Workers sought a wage increase and to preserve brakeman positions, which the company considered eliminating.
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Skagway’s music festival has a special guest this year: a giant fiberglass potato.
A giant potato has been traveling around the country for 11 years, and is coming to Alaska for the first time this weekend, heading to Skagway in Southeast Alaska. The outsized tater may be a promotional scheme by the Idaho Potato Commission, but Skagway is embracing the weirdness and rolling out the red carpet. There is…
A Hōkūle‘a crew member speaks on regaining the ‘lost art form’ of navigating without instruments
“That was a time of our language being brought back into schools, so that little babies are now starting to learn their culture,” Moani Heimuli says. “And Hōkūle‘a was built to really fill that void of the seafarers.”
Passenger plane escapes damage from bird strike at Skagway airport
The Federal Aviation Administration has recorded 58 bird collisions and one involving a coyote in Alaska in the past year.
After long wait, M/V Hubbard begins service in Lynn Canal
The Hubbard carried its first passengers on Tuesday. It now links Juneau, Haines and Skagway.
New lumber-grading bill could open markets for Alaska sawmills
As it stands now, Alaskans have to ship in graded lumber from the outside, which is expensive.