Newscast – Thursday, June 20, 2019

In this newscast:

  • Three Alaskans lose their appeal for victim status in the Carnival Corp. pollution settlement,
  • Gov. Dunleavy addresses the Legislature’s permanent fund working group,
  • federal authorities’ tally of dead gray whales in Alaska waters reaches 10,
  • Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov visits Sitka,
  • the former manager of the Bergmann Hotel is sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling methamphetamine in Juneau,
  • Republican senators in Oregon face daily fines for fleeing the statehouse to avoid a vote on what could be the nation’s second statewide cap-and-trade law, and
  • federal research in Washington state confirms that marijuana use doubled over three years after legal pot stores opened there.

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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