State senators passed a bill that would lower the minimum age to serve alcohol at restaurants; Southeast anglers will be able to harvest king salmon all season under new regulations the Board of Fisheries adopted last week; a conversation about the economic benefit of outdoor recreation and trails.

Petersburg middle schoolers qualified for a national robotics competition earlier this month; three Southeast Alaskans delivered traditional Knowledge reports to the Alaska Board of Fisheries last week; and a look at wintertime gardening in Alaska.

Ketchikan is now officially classified as rural in the eyes of federal subsistence regulations; Petersburg's annual Project Connect resource fair and Point in Time count happened last week; the borough of Bristol Bay plans to build housing for one third of Naknek's teachers.

Petersburg's borough assembly voted down a K-9 unit for the police department at their meeting Monday; geologists visited the site of Wrangell's landslide and presented their findings to the community last month; the Alaska Department of Fish and Game will not open a new commercial fishery for magister squid in Southeast Alaska.

The U.S. Forest Service has new reports that will inform how the Tongass will be managed in the decades to come; Southeast Alaskans will be able to take home yelloweye rockfish again; a look at the way uncertainty around federal funding is affecting nonprofits in Alaska.

Officials in Petersburg are scrambling to figure out which infrastructure projects are affected by Trump's day-one executive orders; the Board of Fisheries will deliberate on nearly 160 proposals over the next two weeks in Ketchikan; Alaska's anti-drug trafficking team seized over 75% more illicit drugs last year compared to the previous year.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries kicked off their regulatory meeting in Ketchikan yesterday; one proposal going before the Board of Fisheries would reduce the hatchery egg production of pink and chum salmon by 25% in Southeast Alaska; the Trump Administration's executive order for the state of Alaska has called into question protections for 28 million acres of wilderness in the state.

A fire damaged a Petersburg home yesterday; a conversation with Petersburg's new district ranger, Carey Case; the National Science Foundation awarded a team of researchers nearly $1 million to study glacial outburst flooding from Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier.

A Board of Fisheries proposal could allow a small commercial red king crab fishery to open when stock levels are lower than what's currently allowed; Juneau residents had a chance to ask questions and offer comments on a proposed fifth cruise ship dock at two meetings last week; the Alaska Legislature is working on a bill that would boost per-student funding by roughly 30%.

Several proposals headed to the Alaska Board of Fisheries next week would change how the state manages king salmons at Blind Slough on Petersburg's Mitkof Island; one of President Donald Trump's executive orders aims to rolls back protections on millions of acres in the Tongass National Forest; the Alaska Board of Education and Early Development released a draft statewide cell phone policy this week.