JUNEAU, Alaska — Thousands of tourists spill onto a boardwalk in Alaska’s capital city every day from cruise ships towering over downtown. Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows of buses stand ready to ...

Offering people authentic cultural tourism experiences in Alaska means rethinking a key element of how the state has long been marketed, Emily Edenshaw, president and CEO of the Alaska Native Heritage ...

The aurora visible from west Fairbanks on Nov. 11, 2025. The northern lights are a huge draw for tourists in the dark, winter months. Travel industry experts expect Alaska to have a softer tourism ...

Right now, two of the incumbent carriers, Alaska Airlines and Delta, have some wonderful prices on tickets from coast to ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Each year, a crush of tourists arrives in Alaska’s capital city on cruise ships to see wonders like the fast-diminishing Mendenhall Glacier. Now, long-simmering tensions over ...

Alaska will consider a new policy to limit the number of visitors to its capital, Juneau, amid concerns about the impact of overtourism, expanding on measures introduced last year. "It’s about ...

JUNEAU, Alaska -- The pristine natural beauty of Alaska boasts breathtaking landscapes with vast national parks, glaciers and 6,640 miles of coastline that makes the destination particularly popular ...

Alaska tourism operators say the season seems a little off after years of strong growth in the industry, with some operators seeing evidence that the Trump administration’s confrontational approach to ...

David Vargas throws some hot dogs on a hot grill in downtown Anchorage on Saturday, May 31, 2025. The yellow umbrella that tops Tia’s Gourmet Sausages and Gyros has been a staple in downtown Anchorage ...

Brad Phillips, a pioneer of Alaska tourism who launched the first cruise tours of Prince William Sound in the 1950s, has died. He was 84. Mr. Phillips died Monday in Seattle, the Anchorage Daily News ...