Newscast – Thursday, September 7, 2017

In this newscast:

  • Five girls, ages 3 to 12, died in a mobile home fire in the Butte, near Palmer;
  • Sheldon Fisher is announced as the new state Department of Revenue commissioner;
  • a Fairbanks coal plant is expected to be operational next year; and
  • North Korea’s nuclear bomb test on Saturday was detected in Alaska.

Andrew Kitchenman

State Government Reporter, Alaska Public Media & KTOO

State government plays an outsized role in the life of Alaskans. As the state continues to go through the painful process of deciding what its priorities are, I bring Alaskans to the scene of a government in transition.

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