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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said President Trump “pressed” Vladimir Putin about election meddling, but the two leaders agreed on the need to move on in the U.S.-Russia relationship.

Juneau’s shortage of affordable child care has led a group to urge the Assembly to use millions in sales tax revenue to expand services. The Juneau Assembly will weigh it and competing proposals at its July 12 finance meeting.

Gov. Bill Walker asked lawmakers to consider a bill changing oil and gas taxes shortly after the budget vote, but they still decided to leave.

Wrangell officials have pulled out of contact talks with the union representing municipal workers, which could lead to International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members to go back on strike. .

The Haines Borough is negotiating with the town of Gustavus to buy a surplus float. It would be used temporarily for moorage at the small boat harbor. Eventually, the borough would utilize it as a breakwater in Letnikof Cove.

The remains of the two people missing in Marmot Bay have been located. The Alaska State Troopers have identified the deceased as Joshua Osborne, 18, and Abigail Osborne, 22, both of Wasilla.

A fireworks-related accident in Haines the night before the Fourth of July left one person with significant injuries. The victim sustained facial and leg trauma in the explosion that followed, Holm said. The man suffered the most injury to his jaw.

Juneau Police Department suspect David V. Evenson, 51, of Juneau, for the fatal assault, and is soliciting information on his location.

The news on Tuesday of a successful intercontinental ballistic missile test by North Korea has world leaders calling for restraint. Based on observations of the test, North Korea could potentially launch a weapon capable of reaching any part of Alaska.

When the two presidents meet Friday, the world will be looking for clues to the future of the fraught U.S.-Russian relationship. “Putin needs the meeting more than Trump,” says one Russia expert.

Alaska’s marijuana industry has brought in more than $1 million in tax revenue since commercial sales began in October.

Mark and Cecilia Matter lost their lives in December when their red plane crashed into Marvel Dome, a snow-covered mountain near the family’s mine. Authorities now consider the Aniak couple’s death to be a suicide.

Kusilvak area residents say families rely on the PFD so they can purchase the big-ticket items.

Southeast seiners will have a shot at a large run of hatchery chums for six hours Thursday. The opening is at Amalga Harbor, about 20 miles northwest of downtown Juneau.

Sealaska Heritage Institute recently published the “Beginning Tlingit Workbook.” It is part of the ongoing effort to revitalize Tlingit language.

On a recent afternoon, seven people are using colorful paints, feathers, strings and beads to decorate masks inside Access Alaska, a support center for people with disabilities.

A 19-year-old U.S. soldier, Pfc. Hansen B. Kirkpatrick, has been killed in an attack in Helmand province while taking part in counter-terror operations. Two other service members were injured.

The private company that controls more than half Skagway’s port wants a 20-year lease extension in order to make way for pressing waterfront improvements.

Tension between Shee Atiká, a Native village corporation, and its shareholders has reached a boiling point.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the test of the long-range missile “represents a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region, and the world.”