KETCHIKAN — There’s a new, painted bus in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough.

As a partner to the iconic and well-traveled salmon bus designed by Ray Troll, the transit department commissioned a new bus designed by Marvin Oliver.

FAIRBANKS — At the heart of the Galena evacuee community this week is a computer in the lobby of the Fairbanks Willow House, the former Comfort Inn on South Cushman Street that’s informally become known as the Galena Hotel.

The computer was logged in Thursday afternoon to the Facebook group “Yukon River Rescue,” where evacuees from the community took turns looking at the hundreds of photos of their inundated community.

FAIRBANKS — A draft Environmental Impact Study released by the U.S. Air Force recommends moving forward with a proposal to transfer a F-16 fighter jet squadron at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

The study released Friday also recommends keeping Eielson as a temporary base for the aircraft several times per year for training exercises, the Fairbanks Daily New Miner reported.

JUNEAU— BP Alaska plans to bring two new drill rigs to the North Slope by 2016, part of an additional $1 billion investment the company envisions over the next five years following the state’s rollback of oil production taxes.

BP is the second of the North Slope’s three major players, after ConocoPhillips, to announce plans following passage of the tax overhaul that was signed into law by Gov. Sean Parnell last month. Exxon Mobil Corp. hasn’t made its intentions public.