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Research says adding officers typically has no detectable effect on crime rates. Rather, it has more of an impact on training, shift relief and responding to other non-crime-related calls in the community.

The city’s Docks and Harbors department recently sent a letter to the state attorney general’s office asking them to take action against the abandoned vessel’s owner. In the meantime, they’re taking steps to keep the boat afloat.

The costs from dealing with climate change are starting to become more visible in Bethel, a hub town for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. There are also costs to the region’s lifestyle.

For the past eight years, families in Juneau and Sitka have opened their homes to high school students on exchange from countries with a significant Muslim population. Volunteers with the program say it’s more relevant than ever.

“Near-deaths and freezing, running out of gas are some of the issues surrounding being able to go between communities,” said Gordon Brower, director of the North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community Services Department.

Gov. Michael Dunleavy’s impending budget cut proposals loomed large at the Governor’s Arts and Humanities Awards last week in Juneau.