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The co-op has been working with the Youth Advisory Commission and the Anchorage Downtown Partnership for various art projects and workshops. Recently the co-op participated in painting a mural downtown on 5th and D. Other art displays on public spaces are in the works as well.

Big Delta resident Tom Gorman said a small dam he built earlier this year to protect his home from the meandering Tanana River held steady over the past couple of weeks as the river rose to near-flood level, due to recent rains. Gorman now hopes the river falls quickly enough to allow him to finish work on the dam before snow flies.

Tod Larson is a retired lieutenant colonel who spent 25 years in the Army National Guard before getting his Masters in Public Administration. Now he’s Seldovia’s new city manager.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker said until the state balances its checkbook, so to speak, state leaders can’t address projects that would build a more sustainable economy.

The chair of the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Board is gathering signatures to have Kenai Peninsula Borough vote on outlawing commercial cannabis operations in areas of the borough outside cities.

The Nushagak Peninsula herd caribou hunt opened Aug. 1 for both state and federal hunts, and there’s a little more hunting opportunity this year than in the past.

Alaska Airlines is building a new $40 million maintenance hangar at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.

An archaeology program has discovered a primitive knife in their fourth year of digging the Kashevaroff site at Salonie Creek in Kodiak, one of the many pieces of evidence that point to the site having been a hunting camp.