The Sand Point girls basketball team competed in the Class 1A Alaska high school state tournament this week for only the second time in nearly 30 years, playing in honor of a classmate who died two weeks before the tournament began.

Opening statements began Friday in the retrial of Dustin Ruckman, now 24, who faces two counts of criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 deaths of two teenage passengers after his pickup went off a cliff near Unalaska.

On the day before his 65th birthday, pilot Robert Everts was given an altered water salute at Fairbanks International Airport as snow blowers launched snow over the wings of his aircraft Thursday.