Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016

In this newscast:

  • President Barack Obama is expected to announce blocking oil and gas lease sales in much of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas,
  • the Juneau Assembly adopts its long anticipated housing action plan, albeit in a squishier form than originally intended,
  • local animal control officials will have new tools to deal with dangerous pets, and
  • a drunk driver who ran his snow machine into dog teams during last year’s Iditarod is sentenced in state court.

Jeremy Hsieh

Local News Reporter, KTOO

I dig into questions about the forces and institutions that shape Juneau, big and small, delightful and outrageous. What stirs you up about how Juneau is built and how the city works?

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