The Petersburg School Board will hear updates on the middle and high school dress code, and school capital projects at tonight's meeting; the Sitka School Board has agreed on a plan that would create a district preschool for up to 20 students - but it won't be free; various groups are pushing for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to take action on trawling.

Petersburg's nonprofit violence prevention and advocacy organization WAVE has a new director; Juneau's cold weather emergency warning shelter will open for the winter next week; new campaign finance data shows moderate candidates have a big fundraising advantage in some key state House and Senate races.

One hundred bull moose have been harvested in the Central Southeast hunt, less than a week before the season closes; the Alaska Marine Highway's long range plan was recently discussed at Southeast Conference in Ketchikan; a dispute with the police over the management of Sitka's animal shelter came to a head recently.

PIA is expanding City Creek Trail, one of many they've built around Petersburg. They're doing it with federal money that funds tribal transportation projects; no one was injured in a large fire in Haines this weekend, but it destroyed several businesses and apartments; a look at Juneau's short-term rental registration program, one year in.

The Petersburg High School cross country teams - both boys and girls - are champions after the state meet in Anchorage this weekend; a landslide in Ketchikan Sunday night trapped nearly a dozen people in a remote stretch of road north of the city; Alaska Public Media reporters visited communities across the state talking to voters about the issues that are most important to them in this year's election.

The Petersburg Ranger District is taking feedback on a proposal to repair the aging West Point Cabin; vaccination rates in Alaska are amount the lowest in the country, which worries public health experts, especially with the current epidemic of whooping cough; and as of last week, that whooping cough epidemic has spread to Ketchikan.

Hunters have harvested 62 bull moose in the fall hunt near Petersburg, Wrangell, and Kake as of yesterday; preliminary results in Juneau show the proposition that would ban cruise ships on Saturdays is down by more than 1000 votes; the Ketchikan School District celebrated Nettie Jones, who fought to desegregate the schools in Ketchikan nearly a century ago.

A look at the preliminary results in Petersburg's municipal election yesterday, voting in Ketchikan and election results in Wrangell; changes to broadband internet connectivity in rural Alaska can come with big savings - and serious risks.

Petersburg High School's boys and girls cross country teams dominated at the Region V meet in Ketchikan last weekend; this winter's ferry schedule is once again impacted by the need for maintenance; a woman in Ketchikan died from smoke inhalation caused by a small apartment fire.

A recap of Petersburg's candidate forum, ahead of tomorrow's municipal election; an exhibit about Americans during the Holocaust and World War ll is traveling around Alaska; a commentary from Petersburg assembly member Jeigh Stanton Gregor, who won his seat by just one vote last year. He's urging people to go to the polls tomorrow.