(JUNEAU, Alaska)— The Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) 2025–2026 winter schedule is now open for bookings, covering travel Oct. 1, 2025 – Apr. 30, 2026. “Across the system, our team is focused on improving long-term reliability—modernizing systems, recruiting and training new crew members, and advancing fleet refurbishment and new vessel and infrastructure projects,” said AMHS Director […]
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Will it be a “long and lustrous winter,” as Phil Connors, the main character in the 1993 movie Groundhog Day said? Or will spring make an early appearance? This morning in Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania, the nation’s favorite groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, attempted to answer that question. Phil saw his shadow — meaning six more weeks of winter, according […]
In late January 2025, meteorologists from the National Weather Service Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland, are predicting “dangerously cold temperatures and wind chill values for much of the South and eastern U.S.” During this time when peak cold often arrives in the Northern Hemisphere, Alaska today celebrates the king-of-the-cold’s birthday. Jan. 23, 2025, is […]