Residents and business owners filled council chambers last week [1/3] as the Homer Planning Commission moved forward with several big decisions on a proposed hotel complex, and honeybees are not native to Alaska. And many beekeepers in the state *don’t* try to keep bees alive through the long winter. They kill their bees when winter starts and order new bees when the weather warms. But one Anchorage beekeeper has learned how to help his colonies survive to see spring.