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Board game lovers from Juneau and elsewhere descend on Platypus Con every January. This year, more than 300 players stopped by the locally organized three-day gaming convention.

Mark Spring of Bethel has been elevated to chairman by his peers on the Alaska Marijuana Control Board. The state’s pot industry had criticized his predecessor as a “prohibitionist.”

Scientists remain puzzled over just what’s killing off Alaska’s king salmon runs. Fisheries managers mull labeling chinook as a “stock of concern” which would further restrict commercial and sport fishing.

If you go hiking in the Juneau area, you might find some rocks that look a little different. A national hobby of painting designs on small rocks and hiding them for others to find has made its way to Alaska.

The ranking methodology favors communities with a high concentration of creative jobs and creative industries. The revenue of arts nonprofits, like ticket sales, grants and community contributions, also factored in.

At a town hall, several community members echoed the feeling that Alaska’s fiscal future is being held hostage by the Republican-led Senate majority.