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“It was unreal. I remember standing in front of my print while people were approaching and talking to me, and I was just kind of like outside of my body watching myself, like, ‘Is this really happening?’”

Meteorologist David Kochevar at the National Weather Service office in Anchorage said his agency clocked wind speeds of 91 mph at the Dutch Harbor Airport and 93 mph at the Akutan airport.

City Attorney Robin Koutchak said a suit has not been filed, although the city has received several requests for public records.

“So here’s where the public has never gone before!” said Raptor Curator Chloe Goodson as she led a small group of people into the collection of wooden sheds where eight owls, falcons, hawks and eagles live Tuesday.

Curators promise broad, honest representations of Alaska Native history and culture in new Juneau museum.

Chaplain Major Kirk Thorsteinson of the Alaska Army National Guard encouraged veterans to continue upholding values exemplified by U.S. service branches.

Education Commissioner Mike Hanley said that although the results show room for improvement, they also show that the education department has raised the bar to make the tests more difficult.

Authorities have arrested Aaron Fedolfi, the former Bethel Police Officer that was on the run.

The organizers hope to rebuild Kodiak’s iconic, but aging fiberglass statue at life-size or bigger with bronze.

Pilot Mike Mackowiak told the NTSB he had fueled the plane before takeoff, and was convinced there was an electrical malfunction with the gauges when they read empty.

The National Defense Authorization Act passed Tuesday with amendment by Sen. Dan Sullivan that requires the Pentagon to write an Arctic strategy report within a year.

Judge Paul Lyle cautioned that he has thousands of pages to read before a six-month clock for him to rule begins ticking.

Juneau teachers are getting a 2 percent salary increase. The estimated fiscal impact of the contract for this budget year is about $650,000.

Pot entrepreneurs will be able to grow their crop in some low-density neighborhoods, outside the city’s urban service boundary.

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.