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  • Republican Treg Taylor is back in Alaska’s race for governor. Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom announced her decision late Friday. // Alaska’s criminal appeals court has thrown out an indictment of a Whittier woman born in American Samoa who state prosecutors accuse of felony voter misconduct. // An Anchorage-based aviation firm has released the names of two pilots killed last month in a plane crash in western Alaska. All eight aboard died. // The Indian Health Service handed ownership of the state's biggest tribal hospital to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. // Arctic Inuit leaders will meet in Nome in 2030 for the Inuit Circumpolar Council’s 16th General Assembly.
  • Residents of southcentral Alaska are facing possible shortages of natural gas. // An Anchorage Democrat and Big Lake Republican debate how Alaska can get the maximum benefit from its resources. // Processors are paying more for commercial salmon this season than in recent years, because of activity in international markets. // Gov. Mike Dunleavy has set a record for the most vetoes by an Alaska governor during a legislative term. // A new state law authorizes pharmacists to provide different kinds of care to Alaskans.
  • Traffic is flowing again over the Johnson River bridge south of Delta Junction, now that the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has completed repairs on Tuesday.
  • Former state senator Tom Begich is running for governor. // State and federal officials gathered at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage last week to promote investments in Alaska aviation safety. // A Fairbanks jury found 22-year-old Kapri Raymond Willis not guilty last week of first-degree murder and witness tampering. // North Pole's City Council postponed voting Monday on an ordinance that would prevent people from accepting money from vehicles on city streets. // U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last week arrested and held a man with no criminal conviction. // Regional air carrier Ravn Alaska announced Thursday that it was shutting down.
  • Alaska has finally regained the jobs it lost during the pandemic, according to a new report from the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development. // A Fairbanks woman who worked at Denali State Bank is suing the financial institution in federal court over claims of sex-based discrimination and retaliation. // The U.S. Coast Guard officially added the first icebreaker to its fleet in more than 25 years. The Cutter Storis was commissioned Sunday in a ceremony in Juneau, its future home port. // A massive tsunami ripped through a fjord near Juneau early Sunday morning. Scientists say it was set off by a huge landslide. // A science journal recently published a study that found roads can significantly alter caribou behavior and delay their migrations for weeks.