Newscast – Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019

In this newscast:

  • Alaska youths argue their climate change case before the Alaska Supreme Court,
  • a trial over who’s responsible for water contamination in North Pole begins,
  • federal authorities charge an Eagle River nurse practitioner and a Soldotna doctor with illegally writing opiod prescriptions,
  • Norwegian Cruise Lines agrees to pay for third-party emissions monitoring in Skagway next summer,
  • the Juneau School Board adjusts school boundary lines around the Pederson Hill subdivision and swears in two new members, and
  • critics sound off on a proposed rule change that would let the state’s lawyers represent the attorney general and governor in ethics complaints.

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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