Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Palmer on May 30, 2025. (Amy Bushatz/Mat-Su Sentinel) The Don Young Alaska Job Corps Center in Palmer on May 30, 2025. (Photo by ...

Alaska’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped a statistically insignificant 0.1 percent between April and May, according to preliminary figures from the Alaska Department of Labor, and job ...

Seward's Alaska Railroad terminal. Jobs in sectors like tourism have been improving, slowly, since 2020. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) Alaska’s job market will continue on a path of recovery this year, though it ...

As a student, I was very nervous about job stability and unemployment after graduating from college. I decided to take a job across the country in Alaska because I thought it would help my career. It ...

Alaska is expected gain 5,400 jobs in 2024, an increase of 1.7% over the past year and enough to nudge total state employment above 2019 levels for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in ...

Nov. 5—The number of commercial fishing jobs in Alaska plunged to a new low last year as the industry struggles with disrupted fisheries, low prices, climate change and foreign competition that could ...