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Where the Spenard neighborhood intersects with the Midtown Anchorage commercial strip, nearly a dozen secondhand or thrift shops are within line of sight. There's the Habitat for Humanity Restore at [...]

Cyrus Aldeman could hate me: twenty-five years ago, his family sought my help during a dispute with a business rival, and I sided against them. He has every right to [...]

Tucked into a corner of the Cordova Electric Cooperative's Humpback Creek Hydroelectric facility are two metal cabinets, each about 2 feet by 2 feet by 6 feet in size, that [...]

Swords were flying off the table before the Kids Business Fair officially opened. Demand clearly outstripped supply, but rather than adjust the $3 price and possibly discourage further sales, the […]

Companies in the Alaska Business Corporate 100 declare their top officer, the person who serves as the figurehead and the public face of the organization. These individuals hold a variety […]

March 27, 1964 shook up the construction industry in Alaska. The magnitude 9.2 earthquake that Friday evening left 131 people dead as it crumbled streets, flattened buildings, and wiped out [...]

Cardiology keeps the lights on at Dr. Gene Quinn's office, yet the director of quality and population health for Alaska Heart and Vascular Institute (AHVI) has more ambitious goals. 'My […]

During a late autumn sunrise, Charles Marohn walked through Anchorage's Fairview neighborhood. Marohn, perhaps the most famous traffic engineer in the country, had been to forty-nine other states, and his [...]

Scientists huddle on the stoop of the Barrow Arctic Research Center (BARC) building while a polar bear lopes across the grassy tundra. They watch the animal with a mix of [...]

Iditarod mushers cross the ceremonial starting line in Downtown Anchorage at Fourth Avenue and D Street, next to the Balto statue, surrounded by cheering crowds. Buildings along the chute, however, [...]

'Every business needs a business plan,' says Jon Bittner, executive director of the Alaska Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at UAA. 'Do you need a sixty-page, high-gloss plan? Probably not; [...]

Bulk salt sells for pennies per ounce. Alaska Pure Sea Salt Company, though, sells 4-ounce pouches for $14 apiece. 'A lot of people in town thought we had lost our [...]

Frieda Nageak wishes that visitors to Alaska's northernmost town could take home authentic souvenirs. 'We have a lot of visitors from all over the United States and from Canada and [...]

Names tie the present to the immemorial past. The founders of Alaska Native corporations kept this principle in mind when they devised brands to represent both their business interests and [...]

Flying is magical in a way that a century of air travel has not quite diminished. Pasha Saleh, head of corporate development for Alaska Airlines, appreciates the prestige. 'I started [...]

Seventeen pens, eight notepads, four post-it pads, nineteen stickers. If an attendee at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference (ASEC), which was held in Anchorage in May, collected one of each [...]

'We're going dark!' From center stage, Kristinne Daquis calls out the next item on her checklist, testing the lights before a preview of Dead Man's Cell Phone. The play is [...]

Juneau adorns the margin between Gastineau Channel and the Boundary Range like a string of pearls. The pendant in the middle is Lemon Creek, a residential neighborhood that also includes [...]

Venetian glass came to Alaska during the European Renaissance. Blue beads discovered in 2005 at archaeological sites in the Brooks Range were dated to the mid-1400s, having changed hands along [...]

At the corner of Northern Lights Boulevard and Minnesota Drive in Anchorage, three gas stations face each other: Carrs Safeway, Chevron, and Vitus. From one spot, a consumer can read [...]

The 20MW reactor at Fort Greely was the state's first--and, for the time being, only-nuclear energy project. From 1962 to 1972, SM-1A provided steam heat and electricity for Fort Greely. [...]

Hockey season in Alaska wraps up in early April. The Kenai River Brown Bears, Fairbanks Ice Dogs, and Anchorage Wolverines of the North American Hockey League hang up their skates [...]

Government is not a business, but it is an employer. In Alaska, government is the largest employer. Monthly employment estimates kept by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development [...]

Hunting for a parking space can be frustrating, but excess parking spaces can plague a city and its inhabitants in quiet yet pernicious ways. 'Right now, we have these huge [...]

'It's not as easy as you might think to start a global airline,' says Rob McKinney. Not that the CEO of Northern Pacific Airways is complaining. Progress has been swift [...]

Hatcher Pass Road exists because of gold mining. On the Palmer side of the backcountry route through the Talkeetna Mountains, Independence Mine State Historical Park preserves a relic of gold [...]

Prudhoe Bay petroleum flows both ways. The Trans Alaska Pipeline System, of course, moves almost half a million barrels of crude oil per day from the North Slope to Valdez. [...]

Little boxes made of ticky tacky need not all look the same, but they often do. Everyone has had the experience of visiting a friend's home and recognizing the layout. [...]

Homeowners' associations (HOAs) are, in a way, the smallest unit of government, Neighbors follow a charter that defines their rights and responsibilities. Alaskans, being famously individualistic, might perceive this arrangement [...]

Warehouses are easy to ignore. Almost by definition, they are places that the general public passes by but rarely visits. 'Most of the time you don't allow the public inside [...]

Being transgender is more than a medical condition; it is an aspect of human lives. That said, transgender people have, by their nature, special healthcare needs. Since 2014, when TIME [...]

'Alaska seafood has so much to offer,' says Ashley Heimbigner. 'It's often a game of choosing which messages are best for the audience.' Choosing messages is Heimbigner's job as communications [...]

Two years ago, I was sitting in the tiny room where I had worked for nearly a quarter century. My entire professional radio career was spent in the newsroom at [...]

Garages were famously the birthplace of companies that dominate software development. Alaska has garages; therefore, nothing stands in the way of Alaska becoming the Silicon Slope. Nothing, that is, except [...]

Workers have nothing to lose but their chains, said Karl Marx. But what if workers own the chains? Rope, wire, hoses, tubes, and chains are the stock-in-trade at Alaska Rubber [...]

'We used to say--this is something we used to say--that we don't have a word for art,' says Rosita Worl, emphasizing her own Tlingit heritage. Even though she has a [...]

A phrase that readers can expect to see less often in this magazine is 'The Last Frontier.' Although it remains Alaska's official nickname, printed on state license plates, it has [...]

Western Australia, the home of 88 Energy, is in some ways the antipodean Alaska. The state shares the distinction of being its country's largest by area. Although not as thinly [...]

Three little numbers can be a hassle when a phone call requires dialing ten digits instead of seven. Three tittle numbers can be a boon, when even a toddler can [...]

A week before her first showing at Stephan Fine Arts, the painter was, in her words, 'freakin' out,' She had been painting for only three years since a midlife crisis [...]

Here I sit on my shelf. I'm cold, as I should be. My contents are pasteurized, but I contain no preservatives, so my creator recommends that I be refrigerated. I [...]

Hydrocarbons are a two-edged sword. One edge is hydrogen, storing energy like wound-up springs that is released when combusted with oxygen. The other edge is the carbon atoms the hydrogen [...]

Blazers, blouses, and skirts hang on racks, but this isn't a clothing boutique. In the Enterprise and Entrepreneurship lab at Martin Luther King Jr. Technical High School in Anchorage, students [...]

A good prosthodontist is hard to find. Only three such specialists may be currently working in Alaska, depending on how 'semi' some semi-retired dentists might be. According to the US [...]

The fireworks display over Anchorage on January 30 was too late for New Year's Eve, too early for Fur Rendezvous. What was it for? The fact that it happened at [...]

On September 28, 2015, Shell Oil abruptly ended its efforts to drill off Alaska's Arctic coast. At the time, the company had roughly 400 workers at an office in Anchorage, [...]

Each year, JA of Alaska recognizes an educator and a volunteer who have gone above and beyond to support the program and Alaska's students as they learn critical financial information [...]

The KeyBank Plaza in downtown Anchorage is no more. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake on November 30, 2018, killed it. Oh, the nine-story building still stands at the corner of Fifth [...]

Oil and gas are the champions of Alaska's economy, no doubt about it. The state's history is inextricably intertwined with petroleum exploration and development, at least since the '50s. This [...]

Across all industries, no employer can avoid human resources. The Corporate 100 rank by number of employees motivates a focus on those human elements this month, but I hear about […]