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While Mayor Ken Koelsch isn’t up for reelection this year, he is actively working to unseat incumbent assemblymember Kate Troll.

The Juneau Police Department wants to positively identify the man in this video. Call the department at 586-0600 with tips.

This week’s segment is a how-to guide on picking your own apples and what to make out of them.

If successful, the lawsuit would double the dividend amount, from $1,000 to slightly more than $2,000.

The National Weather Service in Juneau issues a flood advisory around Mendenhall Lake and river in the central channels until 3:45 a.m. Friday.

Martin Sensmeier, a 32-year-old actor from Yakutat, is co-starring in the major motion picture “The Magnificent Seven.” The film opens on September 23rd.

Troopers identified the hikers as 41-year-old Enrico Solano of Mexico and 28-year-old Lucas Pezzi of Argentina.

Two canoes returned home to Haines this week, after spending some time in Hoonah, where master carver Wayne Price assisted in the Huna Tlingit homecoming to Glacier Bay. A team of volunteers sing as they bring two canoes off of the LeConte Ferry and onto shore in Haines.

The Ketchikan School Board on Wednesday rejected a policy that would have limited memorials at school facilities. The policy was recommended by the Association of Alaska School Boards. It called for allowing one temporary memorial per loss that would be removed at the end of the school year.

A program aimed at helping mothers who are in prison connect with their kids is called the Lullaby Project. Professional musicians work with inmates at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River to write songs for the inmate’s children then the musicians record them onto a CD.

City Administrator Mark Gorman will step down from the position in six to nine months, he announced during Tuesday night’s Assembly meeting. He’s resigning for both personal and professional reasons, he said.

Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office Director Cynthia Franklin told state legislators that marijuana testing should begin within weeks.

The department has launched a new program that will audit applications this month.

So far, the candidate that has raised the most money is Beth Weldon, who’s running unopposed.

Human remains awaiting identification and items belonging to Jeffrey “Scott” Walkenford who’s been missing since 2010 have been found in the Mendenhall Valley.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources announced it has hired a new deputy commissioner in charge of oil and gas. Mark Wiggin left Brooks Range Petroleum to take the post, where he worked as an engineering and development manager. The deputy commissioner role has been vacant since March, when Marty Rutherford temporarily stepped in to…

Our Ocean 2016 conference in Washington D.C. will focus on protecting marine areas, mitigating the impacts of climate change, promoting sustainable fisheries and combating illegal fishing, and reducing marine pollution.

The company trying to reopen the controversial Tulsequah Chief Mine, upstream from Juneau, is being taken over by an investor. An environmental cleanup may be left to the British Columbia government.

Five people at a remote Arctic outpost were trapped by polar bears. They couldn’t kill the bears, and ran out of flares to scare them off — so they appealed for help.

City and Borough of Juneau Utilities crews are repairing a water main break Wednesday near mile 19 on Glacier Highway. CJB began work on break at about 8:30 a.m. Customers north of Randall Road may be without water wile work continues.