Newscast – Friday, Dec. 27, 2019

In this newscast:

  • a fish farm operator says predators likely ate most of their escaped Atlantic salmon,
  • the leader of Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends pitches her carbon emissions plan,
  • the legal age to buy tobacco is going up to 21 in late 2020,
  • a 25-mile stretch of the Richardson Highway near Paxson remains closed,
  • weather is hampering the response to Willow Creek flooding in the Mat-Su Borough,
  • a Coast Guard seaman is facing a court martial for an alleged murder during a night of drinking in Alaska,
  • economic experts size up the potential effects of hundreds of oil industry workers leaving the state in the BP-Hilcorp transition, and
  • Volkswagen announces it will produce 1 million electric cars a year by the end of 2023.

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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