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Conscience or incompetence? Two competing narratives — along partisan lines — have emerged to explain the sudden departure of the head of the Federal Student Aid Office.

A former Soldotna middle school custodian is arrested for sexual abuse of a minor. The Kenai Art Center has new exhibits. Plus, four harbor seals are released into Cook Inlet.

A sled dog from Clam Gulch is found safe after getting loose near Girdwood. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reinforcing limitations on hunting and trapping in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. And Soldotna’s Central Peninsula Landfill is hosting a hazardous waste collection day this weekend.

Companies at the center of the deadly prescription opioid epidemic are close to deals that would cap their liability while funding drug treatment and recovery programs.

A fire razes a duplex in Kenai. Central Emergency Services needs more money for its new fire station. Two seal pups are admitted to the Alaska SeaLife Center. A woman dies in Resurrection Bay. Installations at the Kenai Art Center highlight Alaska's natural beauty.

The Kenai school district takes the first steps in considering a four-day school week. Plus, Alaskans pay tribute to Father Michael Oleksa, a Russian Orthodox priest who last served in Nanwalek when he died last month at the age of 76.

Two Kasilof residents are arrested for the death of their dog after leaving it outside in the cold. Plus, an Anchorage-based Facebook group helps people find what they’re looking for, and the Tsalteshi Trails Association will host its annual Ski For Women 5k race this Sunday.

A local group is stocking peninsula schools with free period products. Soldotna Rep. Justin Ruffridge is co-chairing a caucus of first-year lawmakers. And the Alaska SeaLife center admits a fur seal pup, found in Sitka. Plus, tomorrow is the deadline to apply for a by-mail absentee ballot for next week's special election.

Faith and religion have been career-long themes for the Run the Jewels rapper — if often in a wary, ambivalent light. But on Michael, his first solo LP in over a decade, something has changed.

While six retired military generals have come out in the past weeks calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to step down, no active generals have followed suit. Time magazine reporter and commentator Douglas Waller offers some historical perspective on speaking out against a senior official.