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An escaped inmate led to a brief manhunt in Lemon Creek Wednesday afternoon before being re-captured. The 25-year-old male inmate reportedly kicked out a security window in a troopers prisoner transport van on its way to Lemon Creek Correctional Center.

Nico Edwards joked it would be good publicity if one of his crewmembers was attacked by an eagle in Unalaska. Then he posted an Instagram video or himself trying to touch a raptor perched on a dumpster. That type of interaction with an eagle is illegal.

A clean yard and garden can stem a slug onslaught. If that doesn’t work, then effective extermination methods include slug bait, salt, an ammonia solution, beer traps, or simply a pair of bricks.

A three-day Arctic Maritime Symposium in Anchorage brought together senior military officials, academics and civilian leaders to discuss what shifting geopolitics and a changing environment could mean for the nation’s military presence in Alaska.

Some parts of the forests in Southeast Alaska are a little off color. Hemlock trees are turning yellow and brown from a sawfly outbreak. But scientists say there’s not much to worry about.