In this newscast:
- Gov. Mike Dunleavy is still optimistic lawmakers will restore another $1,400 in permanent fund dividends in a fall special session,
- a group is seeking a statewide ballot question to raise taxes on the oil industry,
- the Juneau Assembly OKs three ballot questions for the October municipal to finance and improve arts and culture infrastructure,
- the Assembly also approves a five-year schedule of water and wastewater utility rate hikes,
- a resident of a Mendenhall Valley home dies after neighbors pull her from a smoke-filled home,
- the Parks and Sterling highways in Southcentral Alaska reopen amid wildfires but with heavy delays, and
- the University of Alaska Board of Regents end the system’s state of financial exigency.
