Newscast – Friday, Feb. 8, 2019

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.

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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