A new agreement with heavy water users isn’t likely anytime soon, so the original across-the-board increase is back in front of the Ketchikan City Council.

Governor Sean Parnell has ordered state flags to be lowered Thursday in honor of Village Public Safety Officer Thomas Madole, who was killed in the line of duty Tuesday in Manokotak.

The Ketchikan Gateway Borough will look into how it can transfer state grant funds back to the state, in hopes of expediting the Alaska Marine Highway System’s planned Ward Cove moorage facility project.

Along with other Western senators, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich are sponsoring the Hydropower Improvement Act of 2013, which seeks to increase the nation’s hydropower capacity, to expand clean-power generation and create jobs.