The Alaska House took up a wide-ranging education bill on Monday; attorneys presented oral arguments in a long-running dispute over fishing rights in Metlakatla last week; the Petersburg Vikings were in Metlakatla last weekend and struggled hard against the Division 2A team.

The Petesrburg School Board meets tonight and will cover budgetary business; the U.S. Forest Service will build seven news cabins in Southeast Alaska in the next two years. One will be on Petersburg's Woodpecker Cove Road; three major seafood processors in Alaska have announced plans to sell of their plants or temporarily close for the upcoming fishing seasons.

The Alaska Senate is working on rejecting several of the dozen executive orders Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued earlier this year; the Sitka Assembly voted down a proposed ordinance that would have limited bus traffic during cruise season; the U.s. Army Corps of Engineers has wrapped up a multi-year, multi-million dollar dredge project in Petersburg's South Harbor.

Petersburg's teachers are negotiating a new contract with the school district - and Sitka's teacher just negotiated a new contract with theirs; U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski is urging Alaskans to put the state first in the coming general election; a store in Ketchikan is looking into ways to cut down on plastic.

Petersburg's teachers are negotiating a new contract with the school district;

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski is urging Alaskans to put the state first in the coming general election;

and a store in Ketchikan is looking at creative ways to cut down on plastic.

Members of the House and Senate are working out details of a wide-ranging education bill, but they're still far apart on how much to increase state education funding; a Ketchikan resident submitted a letter of complaint to Alaska's Attorney General accusing local officials of retaliating against her after she attempted to remove books from teen library shelves; Petersburg hosted a basketball tournament last weekend, which was attended by teams from all over the state.

Alaska lawmakers heard overwhelming opposition to a bill last week that would allow electronic monitoring in state fisheries; Gov. Mike Dunleavy is calling on lawmakers to expand Alaska's charter school system, repeatedly citing a study ranking Alaska's charter schools as the best in the nation; Ketchikan residents are wondering why their roads are in disrepair.

Law enforcement in Ketchikan seized fentanyl and meth last week in a bust related to another seizure in January; the Sitka Fine Arts Camp has won a $45 thousand dollar grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; Petersburg High School hosted a basketball tournament last week, which was attended by teams from all across the state.

Sitkans got a chance to talk to SEARHC administrators about the closure of its Home Health department in Sitka; the US Forest Service issued a proposal that would allow the Hecla Greens Creeks Mine to expand its waste storage facilities and continue operations for up to 18 years; Petersburg's Hammer and Wikan was named Retailer of the Year by the Independent Grocer's Alliance, or IGA.

Juneau's Amalga Distillery is a semifinalist for the 2024 James Beard Awards category of "Outstanding Bar;" Ketchikan had its 38th Annual Wearable Arts Show last weekend. The town claims to have the first wearable arts show in the world; concert pianist and music teacher Tony Lu is in Petersburg.