Tensions continue in Ketchikan around the dismissal of Kayhi teacher Clint McClennan. The National Weather Service tweaks its threshold for cold weather advisories. The US Forest Service plans to raise new totem poles at the Mendenhall Glacier. 

Ketchikan High School students protest the termination of an auto shop teacher; plus, the Ketchikan City Council votes to raise electric rates; police arrest two Sitka residents in a drug bust turned car chase; and, data from Juneau offers a preview of what removing fluoride from public water might mean for dental health.

Alaska tribal organizations locally and across the state receive funding for housing projects; plus, the Petersburg borough approves a deal to build utilities on public-owned lots; and, a student workshop in Sitka is constructing storage sheds for land trust cottages.

Saxman residents are again boiling their drinking water. Ketchikan's representative in the state senate pushes for new ways to insure local homeowners against landslides. 

Local tribes mount legal challenges against Canadian mining operations; plus, new data shows an increase in substance use among girls in Sitka; and, Juneau changes zoning laws in attempt to get more homes built.

A conversation with Ketchikan’s new police chief Eric Mattson about his hopes for the future of policing in Ketchikan. Juneau’s upcoming Aak’w Rock music festival is cancelled. 

More on Southeast’s population trends. The US army plans to apologize to Wrangell this weekend. Christmas Day surfing on the Bering Sea. 

A Washington state man dies while exploring an abandoned mine on Prince of Wales Island; plus, the Ketchikan City Council moves ahead with a increase on electric rates; and, a task force is working on expanding child care options statewide. 

The Ketchikan Borough Assembly appoints a previous member to fill the seat recently vacated by Jeremy Bynum; plus, Juneau approves funding for a new housing complex; Petersburg’s student-run movie theater is in financial trouble; and, visitors travel to Haines to see the country’s newly designated national bird. 

Voting opens for the Ketchikan Indian Community tribal council and advisory health board; reflections from the family of a Juneau resident killed in a Christmas day police shooting; and, our Coast Alaska education series concludes with a story about preserving the traditional language in the remote Bering Sea community of St. Paul.