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In Alaska, a white Thanksgiving is usually a given for most of the state. But not this year. The entire state is below normal for snowfall.

Volunteers in Petersburg have been working to put together dozens of boxes of Thanksgiving food to give away to needy families in town.

It was a historic year for the Chilkat Indian village of Klukwan. After more than a decade of work, the Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural Heritage Center opened its doors in May. The center tells the still-evolving story of the Chilkat people and also houses some of the world’s most admired works of Northwest Coast Art, the Whale House Collection.

On the chilly plains of North Dakota, organizers estimate that around 2,500 people are now gathered near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation to support the Great Sioux Nation, or Oceti Sakowin, in their efforts to stop an oil pipeline from crossing under the Missouri River near their reservation. Recently, two Athabascan men from Alaska visited the camps in Cannonball, ND.

Dee Longenbaugh wraps up nearly 40 years of selling books and antique maps.

The marine highway is moving ahead with plans to sell or scrap the ferry Taku. But it’s keeping its options open for a second sidelined ship, the Chenega.

Hydaburg Mayor Anthony Christianson has been appointed the new chair of the Federal Subsistence Board.

Alaska’s largest city could see a sales tax. Anchorage Assembly member Bill Evans is readying a measure that could bring a 4 percent tax on goods and services.

Post-election polls paint a picture of a nation that’s cautiously optimistic about a Trump administration. However, voters are still heavily divided.

Petersburg’s borough assembly on Monday advanced the rezoning of a controversial piece of borough property on Sandy Beach Road in Petersburg and decided against a driveway easement on the parcel for a neighboring land owner.

Three major rivers that flow out of Canada into Southeast Alaska could provide a combined $1 billion in value for tourism and fisheries on this side of the border over the next three decades.

The Ketchikan City Council agreed unanimously Monday to support Akeela-Gateway’s application for a state grant to develop a sobering center at Ketchikan’s former state-run juvenile detention center.

A new report suggests the Alaska Marine Highway System should break into two agencies to prepare for the future.

The University of Alaska Southeast is expanding its partnerships with advocacy group AWARE and Juneau Police Department to improve options for students and staff who have experienced sex and gender-based discrimination.

The Trans Murder Monitoring project reports that at least 295 transgender and gender-diverse people were killed in the last 12 months worldwide.

The largest timber sale in the Haines State Forest in at least 20 years is out to bid. The State Department of Natural Resources is offering the 855-acre Baby Brown timber sale for a minimum price of $250,000. A local conservation group worries the extensive logging project could harm wildlife and tourism.

The Pebble Limited Partnership is asking the state to renew the land use permit for its mineral claims northwest of Iliamna.

Cecil Trent Yeisley, 23, faces five felony assault charges and one felony charge of failing to stop for a peace officer.

Ketchikan’s Vigor Industrial rolled out the forward half of the Alaska Class Ferry Tazlina on Sunday. With that 800-ton portion out of the assembly hall, shipyard employees now can get started on the back half.

North Slope government and history is now part of high school graduation requirements for all North Slope Borough schools. The borough school board passed a new policy this month making the curriculum change mandatory for students, effectively beginning with freshmen who start in 2017.