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For the first time in over a decade, the operator of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System announced a year-over-year increase in the amount of oil moving through the pipeline.

The Petersburg Police Department has two new officers this week. The two were sworn in at the borough assembly meeting today.

The weather service expects very cold air with risk of freezing spray in the inner channels. Marine and aviation travel are likely to be impacted.

The rate of suicide and homicide in the Kusilvak Census Area, located along the lower Yukon River, more than doubled since 1980, a rate increase higher than anywhere else in the nation.

Voters in coal country overwhelmingly chose Donald Trump. They liked his promises to create jobs, even if they didn’t like his other rhetoric. Now, they’re waiting to see if coal can make a comeback.

Ketchikan pediatrician Dr. David Johnson has hung up his stethoscope as of Friday, Dec. 30, officially retiring about 46 years after he first arrived to practice medicine.

Two people were rescued from West Glacier Trail and another two people were rescued from Montana Creek Trail.

A bland, one-paragraph item that appeared this fall in a lightly read weekly newsletter from the city manager in Pasadena, California, has set off a firestorm in the online entertainment industry and in cities and states around the country. The issue: a plan to impose taxes on video streaming services like Hulu and Netflix.

After a late-night vote and an ensuing public-relations debacle, House Republicans reversed themselves on a decision that would have taken the teeth out of the Office of Congressional Ethics.

A North Pole city councilmember named Santa Claus saw his Facebook account suspended this month. Facebook told him he had to prove his identity to get it re-established.

A woman, who was walking downtown, was struck by a vehicle is in stable condition. According to the Juneau Police Department, the 56-year-old woman was crossing the street about 4 p.m. Friday and was standing near the median. She was not using a crosswalk. A 53-year-old male driver was driving south on Main Street and began to slowly turn into the parking lot behind the Alaska USA Federal Credit Union.

Charlie Oen was addicted to heroin as a teenager. At 25, he’s now clean and a peer counselor in Lima, Ohio, where he tries to help people who started using drugs before he was born.

A federal act signed by the president this month will bring millions of dollars for water and sewer systems in Alaska over a five-year period.

It’s the end of the year (as we know it), and that means we’re looking back at your most popular stories produced at KTOO. For 2016 we’re narrowing down the list to stories produced from of the KTOO building or that have a specific tie to Juneau. Some serial stories are incorporated into one entry.

Check out this compilation of music produced by public media in Juneau in 2016.

As 2016 winds down, here’s a look at Juneau’s biggest stories of the year.

Bogoslof Island is now a natural laboratory where researchers can see how the island and its ecosystem respond to volcanic activity.

Nora Edith Thomas, 28, may spend 16 years in prison for the stabbing death of Christopher Kenney.

It’s been a deadly year in Alaska’s largest city, with 34 homicide victims so far — more than in any previous year on record. It comes on the heels of 2015, which also saw an exceptionally high number of violent deaths.

A decline in the number of mature razor clams the past several years has prompted the state Fish and Game department to curtail clamming on East Cook Inlet beaches for the foreseeable future.