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The state Senate’s capital budget for fiscal year 2016 includes new harbor and energy projects for Southeast Alaska.

Alaska’s largest regional Native corporation will distribute $12.9 million this month.

Canadian officials say the small Southeast Alaska town of Hyder will continue to have 24-hour-a-day access to emergency health care.

An Anchorage filmmaker hiked and floated the Unuk River from British Columbia’s interior to northeast of Ketchikan, documenting an area downstream of several mining projects.

British Columbia recently granted provisional environmental approval to the Brucejack mine project, putting another gold mine upstream from Southeast Alaska a step closer to opening.

Juneau Fire Marshal Dan Jager says Saturday’s Gastineau Apartments fire was intentionally started.