In this newscast:
- Officials familiar with the state’s public health system say a funding injection to prepare for the COVID-19 virus cannot erase years of budget cuts,
- state officials clear the Juneau police officer’s fatal shooting in December of Kelly Michael Stephens as legally justified,
- a transgender state employee wins her discrimination case against the state over who should pay for sexual reassignment surgery,
- an apparent miscommunication between officials from Sitka and the state Department of Transportation led to no charter ferry service for Sitka,
- Pacific cod loses its sustainability labeling,
- Rep. David Eastman loses committee assignment from his own caucus,
- the Alaska Board of Game begins a week long meeting covering hundreds of proposals,
- state lawmakers push ahead with a bill to improve the Railbelt’s electric utilities, and
- U.S. sailors who specialize in explosive ordinance disposal train in Gastineau Channel.
