A legendary Petersburg climber is passing the torch to the next generation;

The National Parks Service identified two people who are presumed dead in a Wrangell-St. Elias plane crash;

and a new Head Start facility opened in Unalaska.

Alaska will begina publishing quarterly reports about missing Indigenous people; A 2022 suit filed by Petersburg Police Chief James Kerr against the Petersburg Borough has been refiled by the borough as a civil rights suit in the district federal court; a cat named Leo, missing since last month's flooding in Juneau, is now home safe.

The Alaska Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a ban on trans athletes participating in girls high school sports; the US Fish and Wildlife Service has denied a petition to put Southeast Alaska wolves on the endangered species list; a conversation with Petersburg's new first grade teacher, Jolie Norman.

An interview with new Petersburg 4th grade teacher Sharon Paulsen; One Assembly member retires, while another chooses to run again in a contested race in October; the Coast Guard was very busy with rescues over the last weekend; Homer Farmer's Market brings back Zucchini Fest

There is a new high school math teacher this year; Low chum salmon prices lead to salmon buyers closing early in Kotzebue Sound; Sitka is an expensive place to live, as measured by national metrics; a humpback whale calf is found dead near Juneau; President Biden will visit joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on September 11th.

Petersburg's Borough Assembly set a new precedent for the sale of its tidelands;

Three years of huge salmon returns in Bristol Bay have flooded the markets in Kenai;

and The U.S. Forest Service greenlit a project on Admiralty Island.

Petersburg's Borough Assembly is considering whether to request control of a state-owned seaplane dock in need of repair; wildlife troopers charged a Homer man this week with four counts of illegal fishing in Unalaska waters; the Skagway Borough Assembly postponed a decision on what to do with land that was the site of a boarding school for Indigenous children.

Petersburg Medical Center will hold its monthly meetings in the Assembly Chambers going forward in response to community input;

a fire broke out aboard the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Columbia;

and Juneau is celebrating another growing season.

The list of candidates for Petersburg's 2023 municipal election is in; a crewmember on an American Seafoods factory trawler died at sea last week, likely from an ammonia leak; US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg focused on the ferry system during the last stop of his Alaska trip in Juneau.

Freshman Assembly Member Scott Newman reflects on his first year in office;

New grants will help two tribes bring culturally important items home;

Wrangell's school district is grappling with the effects of Governor Mike Dunleavy's statewide cuts to education funding.