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Assembly woman Ruth Danner will be out of town next week, so Mayor Bruce Botelho took a moment at her final meeting to thank her for her service.

About 500 people are in Anchorage this week for the Alaska Travel Industry Association’s convention and trade show.

Merrill Sanford can officially be called Juneau Mayor-elect.

Patrick M. Peterson may serve 80 days in jail and be required to pay $45,000 over seven years.

If you see smoke and flames from an Otter Run house on Saturday, don’t call firefighters. They will already be there.

The Thunder Mountain Falcons host the Homer Mariners tonight (Friday) at 7 p.m., while the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears play the Service Cougars in Anchorage tomorrow (Saturday) at 2 p.m.

More cruise ship tourists visited Alaska this year than last. But some ports did better than others.

The 110-foot Chandeleur is being transferred from Miami to Ketchikan to assist with regional responses throughout the panhandle.

Pacific Northwest shoreline debris estimates are based on previous studies of Pacific Ocean currents.

Merrill Sanford has the inside track to be the next mayor of the City and Borough of Juneau.

Juneau voters on Tuesday agreed to an extension of the city’s temporary one-percent sales tax, ensuring at least $34-million in capital projects will be funded borough-wide through 2018. But a $25-million bond proposition to fund another package of projects is still in doubt.

Andi Story and Phyllis Carlson have been re-elected to the Juneau Board of Education. And after a two-year break, Destiny Sargeant will return to the board.

Newly elected Assembly member Jerry Nankervis says funding for deferred maintenance of city facilities should be in the city budget.

Loren Jones has been elected to the Juneau Assembly.

Alaska is expected to add nearly 39,000 new jobs over the next decade, with nearly a third in the ealth care and social service industry.

Twenty-seven of 30 days in September were rainy in the capital city, according to the National Weather Service.

Debbie Kimoktoak’s body was found about 13-miles southwest of Unalakleet near where a skiff was earlier discovered.

The number of early voters for tomorrow’s municipal election is high.

Alaska and Canadian scientists say the B.C. government should study the cumulative impacts of proposed transboundary region development.