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There are few signs of progress on reaching compromises on the budget and a long-term plan to pay for it.

It can be hard to choose what concerts to see at the 15-day festival. Here’s a little help.

Teachers from around Southeast Alaska will gather in Juneau next month to discuss culturally responsive education.

The country’s state-run news agency issued a rare broadside against Beijing, its most important trade partner and ally, for “its reckless act of chopping down the pillar of the DPRK-China relations.”

The version of the American Health Care Act passed by the House eliminates taxes on corporations and wealthy people and shrinks Medicaid coverage. A chart breaks down who would be affected and how.

The $1 trillion omnibus appropriations legislation would keep the government running until September.

Hilcorp says the project would eliminate the need to store oil at the Drift River Terminal. That terminal has worried environmental groups for years because it sits at the bottom of Mount Redoubt, an active volcano.

A fugitive accused of seriously wounding a Juneau man with a knife is being held at the Lemon Creek Correctional Facility. The 24-year-old victim is recovering in the Seattle area.

“You have to have the assurance and the backing of the leadership or your bills don’t move. And Alaska has a lot of things on the plate,” Young said. “And I think we’re in a better position to get legislation done for Alaska after the vote today, than I was before.”

The vote is the first step in fulfilling the GOP’s longtime pledge to dismantle Obamacare. Democrats said the bill had been hastily rammed through the House.

The federal budget deal cut by Congress includes some good news for arts in Alaska.

Joe Karson’s new book, titled “19 Unicorns,” is a collection of 17 short stories with titles like “Martini,” “Fish Tale,” “Roy Rogers Thirty Feet Tall,” “Gun,” “Conclave,” and one based in Juneau titled “Ixt,” and two novellas.

Reporter Nathaniel Herz said he was traveling between lawmakers’ offices carrying his smartphone, which was set to record his conversations, when the incident occurred.

The Alaska Earthquake Center has suspended most field maintenance of the state’s 150 seismic monitoring stations. Forty stations are currently offline.

Both the Augustus Brown swimming pool and Mt. Jumbo Gym were among recreational facilities on the chopping block. Now the Juneau Assembly will have to either raise taxes — or look elsewhere to cut.

In the years that followed the Exxon Valdez oil spill, some wildlife populations bounced back quickly, while others may never recover. Now, nearly three decades later, scientists are starting to understand why.

Eastman didn’t provide evidence for this, but said he had been told this by friends and acquaintances.

Fire Marshal Dan Jager said they are still investigating three other fires on Moraine Way, Steep Place and Savikko ball fields as intentionally set.

ConocoPhillips has confirmed it’s giving up its small stake in the Point Thomson field on the North Slope. The move has some observers wondering if it’s a bad sign for the state’s effort to build a massive natural gas line.

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Comey said it was still the right decision to alert Congress about revisiting an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.