Newscast – Monday, August 2, 2021

In this newscast:

  • Researchers have identified the killer whale that beached itself on Prince of Wales Island Thursday and later freed itself.
  • At an emergency meeting on Thursday, the Sitka Assembly voted 6-0 to require masks in public spaces, in an attempt to curb the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in the community since the beginning of the pandemic.
  • Alaska’s state government has joined with other Republican-led states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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