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- A plan to combat homelessness from Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance includes hundreds of shelter beds, camp abatement, social services and enforcement. Some are skeptical it will help.
- Alaska and federal officials responded Wednesday to a large spill of treated water used in operations at one of the world’s largest zinc mines.
- The team behind the award-winning PBS KIDS show “Molly of Denali” will stop working on new content after the next season.
- Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed legislation amending the state’s rental vehicle tax last year. Legislators hope a tax cut passed by the House will elicit support from Dunleavy this time around.
- Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s new hiring freeze has prompted concerns about its potential impact on the state’s workforce and services relied on by Alaskans.
- Dan Seavey, who took third place in the first-ever running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and sat atop one of Alaska mushing’s dynastic families, died last week at the age of 87.
- They’re back: Hooligan, also known as eulachon or candlefish, are returning to Southcentral Alaska rivers to spawn. www.adn.com/visual/photo...
- Histories of Alaska: In his late 20s, L. Ron Hubbard — an author of pulp magazine tales who would go on to be the founder of Scientology — spent a few months during 1940 in Ketchikan working as a radio host. www.adn.com/alaska-life/...
- Permafrost thaw is expected to impose costs of $37 billion to $51 billion to Alaska roads and buildings through the middle of the century, according to a newly published study. via @alaskabeacon.com
- President Trump's trade war with China is crippling an entire Washington state industry that hand-harvests geoduck clams, leaving divers without work and Seattle exporters without business.
