Today’s news: PFD checks roll out soon. Chugach Electric launches new rate. Crowded classrooms take their toll on Anchorage schools. Mat-Su schools push ahead with program that allows staff to carry concealed firearms. Plus a mini bear fair in Petersburg.

Today’s stories: Two troubling Alaska health trends – flu-related deaths are up and the elder suicide rate is on the rise. Ketchikan’s assembly apologizes to the tribe for racist remarks. Juneau weighs a borough tax to prevent damage from glacial flooding outbursts.

Today’s stories: Two troubling Alaska health trends – flu-related deaths are up and the elder suicide rate is on the rise. Ketchikan’s assembly apologizes to the tribe for racist remarks. Juneau weighs a borough tax to prevent damage from glacial flooding outbursts.

Today's stories: An officer-involved shooting in midtown raises concerns about Anchorage crime. Amid racism complaints, the Ketchikan Tribe calls on a planning commissioner to resign. Two SE Alaska women recognized for helping youth get engaged in federal subsistence management. Plus, Juneau has a moose on the loose!

Today's stories: An officer-involved shooting in midtown raises concerns about Anchorage crime. Amid racism complaints, the Ketchikan Tribe calls on a planning commissioner to resign. Two SE Alaska women recognized for helping youth get engaged in federal subsistence management. Plus, Juneau has a moose on the loose!

Today’s news: PFD checks roll out soon. Chugach Electric launches new rate. Crowded classrooms take their toll on Anchorage schools. Mat-Su schools push ahead with program that allows staff to carry concealed firearms. Plus a mini bear fair in Petersburg.

The Alaska Native Heritage Center has become one of the main organizations researching the impact of government and religious schools on Native children. It's new exhibit, "Education in Alaska: Disruptions in our Traditional Teachings," is the first in a series.

Residents wonder if a proposed port expansion will help or hinder efforts to address chronic social problems.

A group from the Lower 48 plans to share an Indigenous artform and advocate for physical, spiritual and cultural healing in Alaska. The effort is called the Jingle Dress Project. And the group hopes a trip to Alaska is the first of many.

A graduate student from Colorado is spending the summer in Ketchikan researching the totem poles at the community’s Totem Heritage Center. It’s part of their work on a thesis about museum decolonization.But what does that mean, exactly, to a museum, and Native communities?