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A state biologist says moose are being harvested in parts of Southeast where they never have been before.

Petersburg spent close to $70,000 fighting to keep its borough boundaries, after Juneau contested them in court. Petersburg won, but it’s not getting much of its money back.

Most people in Petersburg don’t give much thought to the handful of houses which sit on the other shore of the Wrangell Narrows. But to the people who live there it’s a place they are proud to call home.

A year ago, the same facility leaked an estimated 55-hundred gallons of gas into the salt water after a fuel line broke at Kake Tribal’s dock.

Petersburg’s mayor is pleased with this weeks court decision in favor of the state’s latest redistricting plan.

While almost a third of their colleagues in the Alaska House are new faces, Juneau Representatives Beth Kerttula and Cathy Munoz return for their 15th and 5th sessions respectively.

With less than a week until the deadline, roughly 30 percent of Petersburg-area voters have cast ballots on whether to form a borough.