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Foodland IGA plans to hold a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning. Signage and a new pharmacy are still on the to-do list.

The governor’s administration is allowing DOT to spend up to $900,000 of general fund money and associated federal funds to finish the supplemental environmental impact statement.

Monday evening the city’s Land and Resources committee forwarded an amendment that would change part of the land use code, allowing at-home child care facilities to take in 12 children instead of eight.

The city closed the park last week after Parks and Recreation staff found broken glass in the fountain area under smashed windows of Gastineau Apartments.

Evolution and resiliency are the buzzwords for a sustainable mariculture industry in Alaska, a state that is particularly vulnerable.

The American Bald Eagle Foundation in Haines has seen such a dramatic increase in bird rescues that they’re asking for the public’s help. The foundation plans to form a volunteer Avian Rescue Team to help respond to the unusually high number of injured birds.

The fire destroyed fifty-five homes and damaged forty-four other structures, according to the state.

The two sides say the agreement is a milestone in a long process of swapping some Tongass land for acreage near a half dozen Panhandle communities.

The king return to the Nushagak is proving stronger this year than last, and Fish and Game says they’re on track to meet the escapement goal.

On Sunday, the Douglas Indian Association invited tribal elders, elected officials, and members of the press on a trip up to the Taku Glacier.

The woman who left the bag isn’t in custody and hasn’t been identified, though police want to talk to her and have surveillance video.

A jury on Friday found John Mathis Jr. not guilty of two felony counts of criminal interference related to the runaway of his two younger brothers.

A recent NOAA study named 2040 as the date for the potential end of Alaskan shellfish hatcheries, unless serious mitigation efforts are put in place to combat ocean acidification.

An exact timeline for a decision is not known, but ideally a ruling would be announced prior to the next legislative session.

The preliminary results from the annual meeting in Kasigluk dramatically reshapes the ownership of the YK Delta’s regional Alaska Native Corporation.

Clients of the Brother Francis Shelter in Anchorage are agitating for change. They are frustrated with the way they are being treated at the shelter and with some of the policies.

The window of opportunity to prevent grave ecological damage to our oceans from climate change is closing. That’s according to a paper that appeared Friday in the journal Science.

The next time locals go up to West Chichagof for a deer hunt, there won’t be any worry of running across a dilapidated mining tractor.

It’s time to harvest if remaining scapes are uncurling and leaves are turning yellow. Also, a $30 billion water pipeline from Washington state to California doesn’t make much sense if the entire West Coast is suffering from dry conditions.

Peter Delamere, space physicist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute, hopes to learn more about Pluto’s possible atmosphere by studying its interactions with particles from the solar wind.