In this newscast:
- The outgoing Walker administration warned lawmakers that new oil development in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska wouldn’t turn the state a profit until 2026,
- two students turn up at Gov. Michael Dunleavy’s Capitol office to deliver a petition to restore climate change policy documents online,
- caribou tendons are being worked into a thread called “ivalu” in preparation for Utqiagvik’s spring whaling season,
- Facebook responds to Alaska Native artists complaints that their posts are being taken down that sell sea otter fur items,
- thirteen tribes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are appealing permits for the proposed Donlin gold mine, and
- more than 1,000 bales of straw were distributed along the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race course ahead of the March 2 start.
