Alaska digest: A new wind project takes shape outside Anchorage, as AIDEA mulls options for struggling state-owned oil field

Alaska Renewables is proposing a major new wind development near the village of Tyonek, the Legislature's ethics committee loses its administrator and Murkowski gets a new communications director.

This week’s digest of short news items from across Alaska includes items on the major new renewable energy project outside Anchorage, the death of a key legislative employee and some developments at a failed, state-sponsored oil project on the North Slope. Plus a few other things.