Newscast – Friday, Sept. 17, 2021

  • When the state’s health department website was breached earlier this year, cyberattackers had access to the private health information of Alaskans,
  • There’s no title for the screenplay yet, but now X̱’unei Lance Twitchell has a fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation to realize a longtime dream, to bring a true story to life about how Native boarding schools systematically tried to kill indigenous languages,
  • A Belgian woman is trying to set a record for being the youngest ever to fly solo around the world. The airport in Juneau will be her first stopover in the state,
  • A coalition of Southeast tribes and the region’s largest Native corporation are creating an endowment designed to support indigenous-led conservation and economic development,
  • As the spread of the delta variant continues unabated in much of the U.S., public health leaders have approved healthcare rationing in Idaho and parts of Alaska and Montana,
  • Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management back to the nation’s capital after two years in Colorado.

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