The Borough Assembly welcomes new members and bids an old one farewell. Alaska Native communities growing food to fight climate change. Part two of our Phantom Fish series following Alaska herring through Japan.

The Ketchikan Gateway Borough agrees to exempt agricultural businesses from property taxes; a look at Juneau’s short term rental registration program; and the first of a five-part series examining Southeast Alaska’s herring fisheries and their ties to Japanese markets. 

Ketchikan’s Borough Mayor vetoes funding for a winter warming shelter; a closer look at Alaska’s outbreak of whooping cough; an examination of the claims made in the political ads for Alaska’s US House race; and a Coast Guard auxiliary group is revived in Petersburg.

A group of Alaskans push to limit trawl fishing in the Bering Sea and elsewhere; a regional organization receives more money for clean energy projects; two Juneau residents survive a brown bear attack; and a climate researcher says to expect shorter and warmer Alaska winters. 

A landslide near Ward Lake strands multiple people. A large fire sweeps through Haines. The lowdown on Fat Bear Week.

The Alaska Marine Highway System is hammering out the details on their 20-year plan. Alaskans say they want politics to be less polarized. But do they mean it? The ACLU accuses the State of Alaska of a massive breach of HIPAA laws. 

Ketchikan police shoot a bear downtown. Preliminary election results for Prince of Wales Island are in.

A recap on Ketchikan's local election results and Juneau's ship-free Saturdays proposition. The reopening of the Third Avenue Bypass after August’s landslide. Starlink is bringing rural Alaska online in a big way, but there are risks. 

Whooping cough hits Ketchikan. US Forest Service and coast guard remove debris from deer mountain today. Quakers apologize for the cultural erasure of Tlingit people. Juneau votes on ship free Saturdays. 

The state releases Alaska’s winter ferry schedule. Regulators close the Gulf of Alaska Pollock fishery. A Canadian archaeologist searches the depths for our origins.