Newscast – Monday, August 26, 2024

In this newscast:

  • Southeast Alaska health officials say cases of pertussis, commonly called whooping cough, are up in Juneau,
  • Emergency crews responded to a large landslide that killed one person and destroyed several houses in Ketchikan on Sunday,
  • A bellweather trial is began today in a fight over whether the parent companies of two Alaska grocery chains can merge,
  • Petersburg residents are ramping up their efforts to track and combat the invasive European green crabs,
  • Southeast Alaska’s king salmon sport fishery is closed, effective Monday through the end of September

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