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Week of Sep 7
No license covers driving a concrete mixer, so this Alaska company teaches it
No license covers driving a concrete mixer, so a North Pole company supplying Fairbanks concrete since the 1950s teaches the whole craft in-house.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min readFrom 
Homer transfers its ice house lease to Silver Bay Seafoods
The Homer City Council approved transferring the Fish Dock Road ice house lease from OBI Seafoods to Silver Bay Seafoods, catching up to an existing change.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min readFrom 
Wells Fargo keeps shrinking in Alaska, where it's the only bank in six towns
Wells Fargo keeps closing Alaska branches — nine since 2019, the latest in Anchorage. In six Alaska towns it's the only bank, and could leave them with none.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min readFrom 
Missing an unemployment filing could cost Alaska employers five times as much
Alaska employers behind on unemployment insurance paperwork could pay $2,927 per worker next year instead of $542. Third quarter reports are due Oct. 31.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
An Ahtna-owned company will demolish buildings at a West Virginia park
An Anchorage company owned by the Ahtna regional corporation will demolish abandoned buildings at New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
An Anchorage company will run the ATF's supply operation
An Anchorage company won $5.3 million to run the ATF's supply operation. Its federal small-business certification expires six weeks into the contract.
by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read
Week of Aug 31
A Cordova tribe's company will rebuild the Labor Department Great Hall
A tribe based in Cordova, a town you can reach only by boat or plane, will rebuild the Great Hall at the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read
An Anchorage company keeps the heat and power on at NIH's Bethesda campus
An Anchorage company runs the heating, cooling and power plant at NIH's Bethesda campus. It just won $5.9 million to upgrade the ventilation.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
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Chugach Solutions gets $43,689 in FBI building maintenance orders
Chugach Solutions picked up $43,689 in no-bid orders to install fall protection and replace a generator breaker at the FBI's Washington office.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
Kadiak takes a $4.45 million State Department IT contract
An Anchorage company owned by Koniag will run IT support for the State Department bureaus covering the Middle East and South Asia.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
USDA's Rural Housing Service awards $1.35 million cybersecurity contract to Anchorage's Koniag IT Systems
Kodiak's regional corporation has built a federal contracting arm holding well over $150 million in work, from immigration records to Pentagon cybersecurity.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
An Alaska village-owned firm services a Queens federal building
A company owned by four small interior Alaska villages is keeping the AC running at a Queens federal building that mails Social Security checks to millions.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
NIH gives Anchorage's Olgoonik $5.1 million in three uncompeted contracts
NIH awarded Olgoonik General $5.1 million this month for maintenance at its Bethesda campus under a no-bid program for Alaska Native firms.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Coast Guard awards Anchorage firm $1.7 million amid 8(a) freeze
Anchorage-based Old Harbor Solutions, an Alaska Native Corporation-owned firm, won two Coast Guard contracts worth $1.71 million for administrative and logistics support through 2027.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
Registration opens for Oct. 12-13 Employment First Conference in Anchorage
Alaska's Employment First Conference opens registration for Oct. 12-13 in Anchorage, with scholarship tickets available for those needing reduced rates.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Northrim's Oregon deal is on the record. The approvals are not.
Northrim's $167.3 million Oregon bank purchase is on the record, and none of the four regulatory approvals it needs has surfaced publicly.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
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About Business
Business in Alaska takes in the companies, employers and industries operating across the state, from banks and retailers to contractors and professional firms. It includes hiring, wages, business licensing and the economic reports that measure Alaska's job market.
Subsidiaries of Alaska Native regional and village corporations hold many federal contracts, staffing federal offices and maintaining federal buildings in other states. Other recurring questions include bank branch closures and acquisitions, state job fairs and hiring events, and local licensing of marijuana businesses.
Business connects to the economic development, small business, labor and tourism topics, and to industries such as oil and gas, mining and aviation. Economic reports such as those from AEDC assess Anchorage's jobs, costs and business confidence.
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Alaska rule would limit cannabinoids to licensed grows, approved hemp
Alaska regulators want to force all cannabinoids in legal pot products to come from state-licensed grows. This move aims to stop cheap out-of-state hemp from undercutting local businesses.
by Alaska News2mo ago1 min read
Alaska schools warned on parental consent for surveys and student records
Alaska schools could risk federal funding if they survey students on sensitive topics without written parental consent, or withhold records parents can see.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
Alaska joins a suit accusing Amazon of setting the price its ad auctions were meant to discover
Amazon promised advertisers they would pay only enough to beat the runner-up bidder. Regulators say Amazon quietly made itself the runner-up.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
HunaTek takes a State Department order worth up to $6 million
A Juneau company owned by Huna Totem Corporation will staff the State Department's Western Hemisphere bureau, in an order that could reach $6 million.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Homer Spit seafood plant lease passes to Silver Bay at unchanged $69,877 rent
Homer City Council approved a lease transfer of the seafood processing plant on the Homer Spit to Silver Bay Seafoods-Valdez, LLC, keeping the annual rent at $69,877 through 2036.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read
Week of Aug 24
An Anchorage firm will guard a federal satellite archive in South Dakota
An Anchorage company owned by Ahtna Athabascan shareholders will guard a federal satellite data archive in South Dakota for five years.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
ATF places $10 million more in supply orders with Anchorage's Bering Global Solutions
Bering Global Solutions, an Anchorage firm owned by an Alaska Native corporation, keeps a $10 million ATF contract after a federal appeals office rejected a rival's protest.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read
When the Memphis courthouse needs work, the government calls Anchorage
An Anchorage company owned by a Copper River village corporation has taken five federal orders at one Memphis courthouse this year, worth about $514,000.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
An Anchorage firm fell to six employees and built itself back up
ASCI Federal Services fell from 125 employees to six, then rebuilt to nearly 50 and grew its annual revenue from $1.4 million to almost $8 million.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Hecla is hiring for six jobs at the Greens Creek mine near Juneau
Hecla is hiring for six jobs at Greens Creek, the round-the-clock silver mine on Admiralty Island near Juneau — from mining engineer to mill operator.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
A Wasilla company sweeps a Detroit dock and runs five border ports
A Wasilla company is getting $3,419 to sweep a Detroit loading dock. It also cleans four federal buildings there and runs five border ports in California.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
An Interior Alaska village company maintains a Boston courthouse
A company owned by four Koyukuk River villages maintains a federal courthouse in Boston. This month it fixed the boilers, a heat pump and the drains.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
A small Alutiiq village corporation near Kodiak has built a $200 million federal business
A company owned by Ouzinkie, an Alutiiq village corporation near Kodiak, has built a federal business topping $200 million, its biggest presence in Florida.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Week of Aug 17
A Bering Strait Native corporation will staff anti-trafficking work for the State Department
A Bering Straits Native Corporation subsidiary won a State Department contract to staff anti-trafficking work, supporting its 8,200+ Native shareholders.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
A Goldbelt subsidiary picks up another sole-source federal IT order, worth up to $1.3 million
A Juneau Native corporation's subsidiary won a contract to run IT for the U.S. Transportation Secretary's office, with the money flowing home to shareholders.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read
Tlingit & Haida moves to expand its printing business into a historic Juneau building
Tlingit & Haida is seeking up to $375,000 to expand its tribally owned printing business and move it into a historic Juneau building it recently bought.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read
An Anchorage supplier shrank to six employees, and now it stocks federal Alaska
The Anchorage company filling federal orders for pens and clipboards had six employees in mid-2022. It now holds GSA and Navy work worth tens of millions.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read
FedEx is holding a walk-in hiring event in Juneau this week
FedEx holds a walk-in hiring event in Juneau Aug. 25 to 27, with courier and service agent roles paying $25 to $39 an hour.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Tatitlek Management Services wins $2.8 million State Department maintenance order
Tatitlek Management Services won a $2.8 million State Department maintenance contract running through August 2027.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Juneau job seekers can meet several employers in one stop this week
Juneau job seekers can meet several employers in one stop Thursday at a state recruiting event, though details are thin — call the job center to confirm.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Anchorage firm has held FBI maintenance contract without competition since 2022
An Anchorage company owned by an Alaska Native corporation has kept the FBI's Washington Field Office running since 2022. This month: drains and roof hatches.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
An Anchorage firm runs facilities services for North Dakota's federal buildings
A company owned by Kodiak's Koniag corporation keeps federal buildings running across North Dakota, with the revenue flowing home to Alutiiq shareholders.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min read
Northrim to buy Oregon bank, its first branches outside Alaska
Anchorage's Northrim Bank is expanding outside Alaska for the first time, buying an Oregon bank for about $167 million and 11 new branches.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read
Week of Aug 10
Goldbelt subsidiary takes $821,000 in State Department work with no stated purpose
A Goldbelt subsidiary in Juneau picked up $821,000 in State Department staffing work in three weeks. Neither posting says what the work is for.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago1 min read
