Alaska

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North to Alaska? The rush is on.

08/19/14

North to Alaska? The rush is on. →

In Alaska: goodbye sled dogs; hello airplanes.

02/09/13

One hundred years after the first powered flight in Alaska, the Anchorage Museum on Saturday opens a major exhibition celebrating the rich and remarkable stamp aviation has had on the Frontier State. That history began as a spectacle. In 1913, several Fairbanks merchants got together to ship a biplane from Seattle to Alaska by →

Sarah Palin’s Alaska? Or your Alaska?

11/16/10

Alaska is hoping the new TLC show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska" will be good for tourism. →

Alaska volcano brings strange planes to Seattle

03/27/09

It’s not just passengers who are having their flight plans disrupted by the repeat eruptions of Mt. Redoubt. Many cargo freighters heading to Anchorage for refueling are instead diverting to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). According to airport officials, so far SEA is getting at least three times the normal arrivals of international cargo planes: 45 →