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In this newscast: The state’s latest forecast for revenue is down, half of the Alaska Marine Highway System fleet is now out of service, Alaska public safety officials update an online list of missing people with decades of old cases, the City and Borough of Juneau announces a new director of public works and engineering, Native corporation Doyon signs an oil and gas exploration agreement with Hilcorp, state and federal officials tally up over $300 million from summer wildfire fighting expenses in Alaska, wildlife biologists set up traps to kill at least one problem bear in Sitka, a man gets buried and saved in an avalanche on Flattop Mountain, SpaceX delivers Christmas presents and cargo for experiments to the International Space Station, and dense fog affects air and road travel in Juneau. 

In this newscast: An expert tells the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. Board a few bad years could jeopardize the ability to pay dividends and support state government, the federal government awards another $36 million in earthquake disaster recovery grants, a private business proposes building a new marine haul out in Sitka, Petro Star is set to begin transporting fuel by rail between Anchorage and Fairbanks, a man from Kaktovik agrees to plead guilty to killing a polar bear without harvesting any of its meat, the Seward Peninsula community of White Mountain has gone without regular postal service since late October, and NATO-affiliated researchers say social media companies are failing to stop phony accounts and manipulated activity.