Newscast – Monday, September 28, 2020

In this newscast:

  • The Department of Corrections says it’s found ways to offer limited programming for inmates but advocates say it’s not enough.
  • President Donald Trump has announced he’ll issue a permit soon that will allow a Canadian-based company to build a proposed 16-hundred-mile rail line from Alberta to Alaska across the international border.
  • Southeast Alaska had its first big fall storm of the year.
  • The amount of donations to a fight over an Alaska oil tax ballot initiative has exceeded $17 million.
  • A federal appeals court panel has ruled Alaska Native corporations are not eligible to receive a share of the $8 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding set aside for tribes.

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