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Volunteer shortage causes warming center to shut down until the Salvation Army finds people willing to help supervise the shelter overnight. The emergency center had opened after the city condemned the historic Bergmann Hotel and displaced its tenants.

The Trump administration released new instructions late last month on how Homeland Security is supposed to implement immigration policies. Under the Obama administration, immigration officers focused on deporting people who committed serious crimes. Now, everyone who has violated immigration laws could be arrested, detained, and deported. These changes put some Alaskans in limbo.

For the sixth year in a row, a member of the Seavey mushing family has claimed the top spot in the Last Great Race. This year it was Mitch Seavey who won finished the Iditarod at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday, March 14.

Mushers who have been competing in the Iditarod a long time have relationships and traditions they revisit each time they run the race. When Martin Buser gets to Unalakleet, that means a bag of muktuk.

Nome may be less than 24 hours away from its 2017 Iditarod finish. Assuming no unexpected complications or changes in his pace, Mitch Seavey could arrive under the Burled Arch as this year’s Iditarod champion by about 7 p.m. Tuesday night — perhaps slightly earlier.

Photos from 2A, 3A and 4A high school regional championship games that were played in Juneau last weekend.

The city’s budgeting process will play out at Juneau Assembly Finance Committee meetings scheduled each Wednesday from April 5 until the budget is finalized.

While Governors Sean Parnell and Bill Walker have ordered that survivors continue to receive coverage, lawmakers want to make it permanent.

Iditarod teams have left the Yukon river and reached the Bering Sea coast. Mushers are shedding equipment, dropping slow dogs, and looking to make a move in the final 300 miles of the Iditarod.

The state ferry Taku is for sale to the highest bidder. The minimum price for the 54-year-old ship is $1.5 million.

The district runs 38 buses. Some parents have complained that school should not have been open considering how much snow has fallen.

Iditarod mushers face a grueling next few days. Not just those fighting tooth-and-nail at the top of the pack but, also, everyone else with competitive ambitions jockeying for spots in the top 10, 20 and 30.

The list of finalists for the Haines borough manager job is one person shorter. Gene Green has withdrawn his name from consideration. He was one of four applicants the borough Assembly shortlisted last week.

A natural gas pipeline in Alaska has been leaking methane into the atmosphere since at least early February. Dr. Katey Walter Anthony helps to put the size of that leak into perspective.

The necropsy results for an Iditarod dog that died Friday while flying to Anchorage indicate that it died from overheating.

In Southeast Alaska, the frigid conditions have had a direct impact on the way people power their homes.

The historic building has suffered from years of neglect and mistreatment. Juneau officials condemned it because the building isn’t safe but for some Juneau residents, it was home.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The Fairbanks North Star Borough is preparing to enforce more burn bans as part of stricter rules aimed at cleaning up the city’s heavily polluted air. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the Borough Assembly voted to adopt the new regulations Thursday. The goal is to address problems with fine particulate, which…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Tribal leaders in a tiny Native village in western Alaska are expanding their commercial reindeer subsidiary to soon include sales of the lean meat to larger urban markets. The venture by Mekoryuk’s (ma-KOR’-ee-yuck) tribal government includes plans to build a new slaughterhouse and offer the meat for sale in places like…

BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — Tribal members who live near Bethel are asking the City Council to require Bethel liquor stores to only sell alcohol to customers with Bethel IDs. KYUK-AM reports that representatives from more than a dozen tribes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta met in Bethel this week to discuss the impact Bethel’s alcohol sales…