Newscast – Monday, Aug. 17, 2020

In this newscast:

  • About 25 people test positive for COVID-19 at Kensington Mine,
  • Alaska records its 28th death related to the disease,
  • Crew members on the state ferry Matanuska get tested after transporting a group of infected passengers,
  • Kake deals with its first outbreak of COVID-19,
  • Alaska Senate President Cathy Giessel faces challenger Roger Holland in Tuesday’s Republican primary,
  • 123 employees at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport are set to be laid off in October,
  • President Trump’s administration appeals a federal judge’s rejection of a plan aimed at building a road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, and
  • a Metlakatla fisherman says he’s donating a day’s salmon catch a week to his community.

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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