For renters like Ann Dougherty, finding an affordable place to live has been difficult. “One bed, one bath, $1525. Let’s see if it’s got the square footage,” Dougherty said as she scrolled through Craigslist, looking for an apartment in Anchorage. “It does not have the square footage, but a lot of times, I feel like, a lot of times they’re like 600 square feet.” She’s a massage therapist who currently lives in Eagle River, but she wants to move closer to her work in Anchorage to cut down on car time and counter rising gas prices. Right now, including utilities, Dougherty and her roommate pay about $1,200 to rent an entire house in Eagle River. “But that’s like a 2,000 square-ft home, versus a little box,” Dougherty said.

Herring season wrapped up earlier this spring in Sitka Sound with the largest commercial harvest in the history of the Sac Roe fishery. Herring management nevertheless continues to be controversial, and – many would argue – weighted heavily toward market demand in Asia. But what exactly is that market?

Independent candidate Al Gross will withdraw from this year’s U.S. House races, he said Monday in a prepared statement released by his campaign. In the statement, he urged supporters to consider voting for Democratic candidate Mary Peltola or Republican Tara Sweeney, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether Sweeney — now in fifth place in Alaska’s top-four primary — would be promoted to replace Gross.

Students from Petersburg High School last month completed their annual survey of the position of the LeConte Glacier on the mainland near Petersburg. The southernmost tidewater glacier in the northern hemisphere has shown a little change since last year.