In this newscast:
- The House Finance Committee sends the state operating budget bill to the full House,
- Alaska politicians and oil execs react to J.P. Morgan Chase announcing it will stop financing new oil and gas projects in the Arctic,
- Census workers assigned to Arctic communities flag administrative problems,
- state transportation officials plan Thane Road avalanche control for Saturday afternoon,
- U.S. Navy will be training for underwater explosives disposal in Gastineau Channel on Saturday,
- the population of a huge caribou herd in the western Arctic are stabilizing,
- authorities charge a former substitute teacher in Kivalina with child exploitation,
- a young cancer survivor from Florida gets his wish fulfilled to make a snowman in Alaska, and
- a winter storm watch is in effect for Juneau from Saturday evening to Sunday morning.
