Newscast – Friday, Dec. 6, 2019

In this newscast:

  • An expert tells the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. Board a few bad years could jeopardize the ability to pay dividends and support state government,
  • the federal government awards another $36 million in earthquake disaster recovery grants,
  • a private business proposes building a new marine haul out in Sitka,
  • Petro Star is set to begin transporting fuel by rail between Anchorage and Fairbanks,
  • a man from Kaktovik agrees to plead guilty to killing a polar bear without harvesting any of its meat,
  • the Seward Peninsula community of White Mountain has gone without regular postal service since late October, and
  • NATO-affiliated researchers say social media companies are failing to stop phony accounts and manipulated activity.

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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