Storm expected to hit areas of Western Alaska damaged by last month’s typhoon remnants; Federal trial begins for Eagle River nurse practitioner charged with deadly opioid over-prescribing; Where are workers to fill all the empty jobs in Anchorage? It’s complicated.

The Anchorage School District is deciding how to spend $100M in one-time funding that can only go so far; Investigators found high rates of bed sores and extended isolation among Providence nursing home patients, leading to $310K fine; Geologist whose 2013 discovery ‘revolutionized’ North Slope oil exploration lays plans to drill again this winter; Anchorage's Centennial Campground is closed as homeless residents are bused back to Sullivan Arena

Alaska’s U.S. senators want to honor the late Rep. Don Young by naming a volcano after him; Biden approves total federal coverage of Typhoon Merbok; Two people died in recent days after spending less than two weeks in the custody of the Alaska Department of Corrections; Veteran Iditarod musher Jessie Holmes badly injured while helping clean up damage left behind by a historic storm

Spotlight on the chubby cubbies: Fat Bear Junior is the portly prelude to Fat Bear Week; Federal inspectors fault assaults, escapes, improper use of locked seclusion at North Star youth psychiatric hospital; Alaska Permanent Fund CEO’s firing based on ‘deficient’ evaluations but no evidence Gov. Dunleavy was involved, investigation finds

Anchorage Assembly OKs funding for emergency homeless sheltering in Sullivan Arena and elsewhere; Debris removal set to begin after Juneau landslide damages 3 homes, causes outages; Maine man sentenced to 75 years in Alaska cold-case murder and rape of woman at UAF

A plane crash in Matanuska-Susitna; Former attorney general pleads not guilty; US Coast Guard ship encounters Chinese guided missile cruise; The Forest Service has millions of dollars for new public use cabins in the Chugach and Tongass. It wants your advice on where to build them.

Biden approves Western Alaska disaster request as FEMA arrives to assess storm damage; State seeks suggestions for $58.5 million in opioid settlement funds; Dunleavy campaign calls for complaint alleging ‘scheme’ to be dropped

Sullivan Arena back on the table as a possible 150-bed emergency homeless shelter; Alaska congressional delegation pushes for quick approval of big North Slope drilling project; Mat-Su school board enacts mandatory daily minute of silence; Chair of Alaska oil and gas commission steps down for out-of-state position at refinery

Former acting attorney general indicted on sex abuse charges; Alaska once again has the highest rate of women killed by men in the nation; 9-year-old seriously injured in attack by brown bear on Palmer Hay Flats; As $3,284 Permanent Fund dividends hit bank accounts across Alaska, economists predict widespread impacts

How pieces of life in Nome were lost in the storm; The scope of destruction left by the historic storm; A environmental review of the proposed 200-mile Ambler Road is in the works