Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019

In this newscast:

  • A state Superior Court judge says a lawsuit alleging the state unlawfully declared an emergency to cut Medicaid payments raises “serious and substantial questions,”
  • owners of a Ketchikan pulp mill pitch converting their mill into additional cruise ship berths and tourism attraction,
  • the city of Fairbanks reaches out to local businesses to keep funding going for a service that transports intoxicated people on the streets to safety,
  • Alaska State Troopers announce an arrest in a 41-year-old cold case murder,
  • a bus driver who struck and killed Skagway’s mayor and mother in Washington D.C. pleads guilty to negligent homicide,
  • two artists from St. Lawrence Island finish a Juneau residency with a blanket toss, and
  • Galena residents pay for an alleged drug dealer’s plane ticket out of town.

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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