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Ketchikan’s marijuana advisory committee will consider a temporary ban on marijuana retail sales. The local substance abuse task force says retail sales should be banned altogether. A former police officer and cancer survivor disagrees.

Juneau theater artist Frank Henry Kaash Katasse won a short play competition Sunday. The main characters in “Reeling” are two female cousins who lose the uncle who raised them.

State prosecutors reached a deal with Michael Lee Jacko, 50, who recently pleaded guilty in a case involving the sexual abuse of a minor in Pedro Bay. Jacko was the third of three men the young female victim accused of a disturbing pattern of abuse and assault lasting years.

KMXT is suing the City of Kodiak for the release of public documents related to the detention, handcuffing, pepper-spraying and assault of Nick Pletnikoff, an autistic man, by three Kodiak Police officers in mid-September.

The pilot of the private plane that crashed in the Lynn Canal Wednesday shared more information about his wife’s condition and the ordeal they went through.

According to city attorney Robin Koutchak, the Sitka Police Department requested the review directly and the investigation began Monday.

Developers of British Columbia’s controversial Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell deposit say they’ve found more gold. That could increase its value and help attract investors.

The Juneau Assembly voted 2-6 on Monday not to change course, after a Seattle developer presented an alternate plan.

In some areas, yellow cedar trees stand white and bare of needles against a background of green hemlock. The places appear skeleton-like, bare trees standing with limbs exposed.

Juneau teacher Amy Jo Meiners has been named 2016 Alaska Teacher of the Year. Meiners works with gifted and talented students as an extended learning teacher at Auke Bay and Riverbend elementary schools.

The religiously affiliated organizations are legal under the Affordable Care Act. Members pay a monthly fee and are eligible to have medical expenses over a certain amount reimbursed.

Bethel High School and the Kuskokwim Learning Academy represented the region well, with several medals being brought back to the YK Delta.

After protests, a student’s hunger strike and a strike by some football players, President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin announced their resignations.

Southeast Alaska’s largest environmental organization is advertising for a new executive director. Malena Marvin has led the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council for close to two years.

Juneau skiers may be forced to accept a future with warmer winters and less snow.

Meet Brandi, Peaches, Bamboo, Hunter, Chuckles, and Boomer.

The focus of the talks across the Norton Sound are broad, but discussions at Nome’s Pioneer Hall brought local providers face to face with the heads of major state agencies, forcing many to confront uncomfortable truths.

Last month at Katmai National Park, the final hours of two brown bears played out in front of an online audience of thousands. The two animals laid down and died within days of each other.

U.S. Postal Service officials remain mum on the reasons behind an investigation into operations of a contract post office in Knik, but residents of the area formerly served by the facility are demanding answers.

Dennis J. Capua was charged for failing to remove at least 64 commercial Dungeness crab pots near Stephens Passage after the season had closed Aug. 15.