The debate over whether high schools in Juneau should test student athletes for drugs has subsided, but now the Juneau School Board must decide what to do with its offenders.

ANCHORAGE – Anchorage School Superintendent Carol Comeau has told teachers they can show President Barack Obama’s televised speech Tuesday to students, but parents can decide to have their children opt out.

Former Juneau resident Viola Smith Christison died of natural causes on Sept. 2, 2009, at a Montana health care facility. She was 102.

This is in response to Tracy Spartz Campbell’s letter titled “Health care failed dad.”

Chronic inebriates are big problem in Alaska, however, no one is offering any concrete ways to solve the problem. I believe the best way to stem the tide of chronic inebriates is to restrict the flow of alcohol to those who should not be drinking.

SEWARD – Rain clouds hovered over Resurrection Bay on a mid-August morning as veteran welder John Ryan stood on a steel surface 70 feet up in the air, welding on the underside of the 800-ton Crowley Marine Service’s tugboat Vigilant.

SITKA – A 45-year-old San Diego woman performed a rare feat recently, swimming from Kruzof Island to Sitka. Claudia Rose, who runs an engineering firm in San Diego, is believed to have completed the first-ever recorded swim of Sitka Sound.

FAIRBANKS – A homeowner and a retiree combined forces to fatally shoot a male black bear that raided a freezer in Ester this week.

ANCHORAGE – Several members of the Metro Drug Unit have filed a complaint against the Anchorage Police Department alleging the unit is disbanding partly because of racial discrimination.