The Ketchikan borough passes its budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Dispatches from Celebration.

Part two of our funding conversation with Sen. Bert Stedman. Good news for seniors that collect benefits. Fish and Game deals with a bear that has been killing dogs in Sitka. 

We chat with Alaska senator Bert Stedman about education funding. A fatal boating accident near Petersburg. Canoes are landing in Juneau for Celebration. 

After weeks of public outcry, the owner of a prominent Water Street property has agreed not to raise a pair of fake totem poles in front of his shops. An update on the Ketchikan businesses charged by the state with selling fake gold. A Ketchikan fugitive is arrested in Indiana. 

WISH executive director Agnes Moran has entered the race for the District 1 House seat; a Juneau inventor hopes to revolutionize tidal energy; and paddlers make their way to the Celebration festival in Juneau this week.

Grant EchoHawk has reentered the House race against his fellow Borough Assembly member Jeremy Bynum; Juneau finalizes an agreement to limit cruise passengers; and some people think wooly mammoths could one day again roam in Alaska.

Ketchikan independent Rep. Dan Ortiz discusses his decade of service in the state legislature; a grand jury indicts a man for an alleged cruise ship stabbing incident; the Sitka Assembly backs a policy to limit halibut bycatch; and the festival known as Celebration comes to Juneau next week.

Ketchikan independent Rep. Dan Ortiz announces he’s no longer seeking reelection; the Juneau Assembly considers how to proceed with lower property taxes; a new bill will help finance renewable energy projects around the state; and a Southeast Alaska group is looking for a cheaper way to get rid of trash.

A Ketchikan jeweler is sued by the state for selling fake gold. Dozens of festival goers were stranded in Haines over the weekend when an AMHS ferry broke down. A petition seeks to list Alaska king salmon as endangered. Protesters target Denali National Park over what officials say was a bogus rumor. 

The governor eyes establishing a task force to look at the states seafood industry turmoil. Solving the mystery of a shipwrecked charter vessel.