Mushers say the sport has become more expensive. Many of them are turning to tourism to pay the bills.
Tourism
Sitka at a ‘tipping point’ as residents grapple with impact of tourism
Sitka’s summer tourism season is in full swing with numbers expected to be close to last year’s record-breaking 585,000 cruise visitors.
Plans to build Juneau’s fifth cruise ship dock can move forward after appeal attempt fails
The Juneau Assembly has sided with a state ruling that the project can legally move forward, despite health and safety concerns brought forth by a local activist.
‘We got a bonus tour’: cruise passengers stranded in Canada by rockslide rejoin their ships in Haines
About 150 people were bused more than 6 hours and hundreds of miles to rendezvous with their ships early Wednesday morning.
With cruise traffic booming, Alaska’s travel industry looks to boost independent traveler numbers
This summer, some remote communities have welcomed their largest cruise ships in history.
Two members of a Washington family sentenced for selling fake Alaska Native art in Ketchikan
The family’s businesses sold items that were actually sourced from a business in the Philippines called Rodrigo Creative Crafts.
Governor’s vetoes whittle list of funded Alaska Long Trail projects to four
Only four of nine projects that the Legislature funded this year as part of an envisioned Alaska Long Trail network survived Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto pen.
Sitka denies third application to put cruise limit question out to voters
Organizers from the group Small Town SOUL submitted an application in June to put a cruise limit question out to voters in this year’s municipal election.
Climate change is muddying the future of trail maintenance in Southeast Alaska
Trail crews face a growing intensity of the mud, the erosion and the wash-outs that are wreaking havoc on trails as human-caused climate change makes rainstorms more extreme.
State sues Alaska Motor Home after customers say they were swindled and harassed
The company, which faced state action in 2019, has abruptly closed its doors this week.