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Southeast Alaska gained legislative power but lost ferry sailings in 2016. No new transboundary mines opened but Alaska-British Columbia safety talks advanced.

Subsistence hunters seeking deer on Southeast Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island will have an extra month to hunt. But the island’s wolf season was shortened.

Alaska and British Columbia are working out details of how they will handle transboundary mine concerns.

Walker’s spending plan for the fiscal year beginning in July proposes a $2.8 million, or 2 percent, budget cut.

A bill on its way to the president’s desk authorizes most of the money needed to build a new boat harbor in Craig. But the funding itself will wait for future congressional action.

The ferry Matanuska is sailing an altered schedule for about a week due to mechanical problems. It will delay Juneau-to-Prince-Rupert sailings.