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The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority is advancing plans to mine Gulf of Alaska beach sands about 75 miles northwest of Yakutat.

Juneau is under a winter storm warning until Wednesday night. Forecasters expect the town to see 10-15 inches of snow. That’s the most snowfall in a couple of years.

The farther west you go, the worse it looks for Alaska’s Steller sea lions. At the end of the Aleutian chain, the population is dropping about 7 percent a year.

The city’s privately-owned electric utility is trying to expand a program, aimed at shifting when those drivers juice their cars.

Alaska Airlines has won government approval to buy rival Virgin America after agreeing to reduce its flight-selling partnership with American Airlines.

The Shirly Jackson Community Library, the former Kake Library, has been open for more than a year and seeks book donations to keep its collection fresh.

Rumors have swirled for weeks that Target is coming to Juneau.

The state Division of Insurance plans to ask the feds to offset its costs for the Alaska Reinsurance Program.

After a mild start to December, it’s gotten bitter cold in Haines and Skagway, with temperatures dropping into the teens and single digits. With temperatures far below freezing, snowfall from the weekend is not likely to go anywhere soon.

As temperatures rise, Arctic ice is retreating, making trips through the Northwest passage – from Alaska to Maine – a new summer reality. But until now, mariners navigating Arctic ice have had limited formal training. A professor at Maine Maritime Academy is working to change that.

One shot was fired in an officer-involved shooting Saturday, according to the Juneau Police Department. Police say Sgt. Chris Gifford fired the shot that injured Jeremie Shaun Tinney, 38, of Juneau while officers were investigating a single-vehicle crash in the 16500 block of Ocean View Drive.

Juneau Police Department officers will be at area schools to reassure everyone’s safety after a recent school-shooting threat.

The Governor’s Mansion will be open from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday for the annual holiday open house.

Tlingit weaver Teri Rofkar died Dec. 2, 2016. She was 60. The Sitka resident was internationally renowned for her baskets and textiles, made from cedar, spruce tree roots and mountain goat wool collected along Sitka’s shores.

The birds, whose beaks grow at twice the normal rate, often die from starvation because they can’t feed themselves. Researchers now believe a virus may be causing the beak deformities.

In the last few weeks, as commercial marijuana inches closer to a reality across Alaska, a lot of people are asking: why doesn’t Anchorage have a pot shop yet?

District Court Judge Kirsten Swanson was sworn in on Wednesday.

A state commission approved to petitions for Dillingham and Manokotak to annex land in the Nushagak commercial fishing district against their staff’s recommendations. The annexations will allow the two city’s to tax salmon harvested in the district.

The Kodiak Island Borough agreed to hold conserve land that multiple Kodiak residents testified they wanted to protect.

A man who was shot by a Juneau police officer was medevaced to Seattle and is expected to live. The police, the Department of Law and the Alaska Bureau of Investigation are trying to determine why lethal force was used.