In this newscast:
- Juneau will have a new seasonal sales tax beginning next year. And there will be some new faces on the Juneau Assembly, while the school board remains unchanged. That’s according to the final results for Juneau’s municipal election shared last night.
- Here’s the clue: He is an Alaska resident, a longtime Jeopardy! fan, and won the game on October 13 after decades of training. If you said: Who is Ron Clarke? – you’d be correct.
- The small fishing village of Pelican in Southeast Alaska went without a grocery store for more than 15 years. Then, in 2023, a family decided to step in and start one again. What began as just a few shelves of basic supplies has grown, aisle by aisle, into a community hub for locals, tourists, and fishermen alike. KCAW’s Hope McKenney visited the small boardwalk town and has this story.
- Governor Mike Dunleavy issued a disaster declaration Tuesday after a non-fatal landslide severely damaged the Ward Cove electric substation just north of Ketchikan. The same storm that caused the landslide also damaged drains near the city harbormaster’s maintenance building.
- The U.S. Forest Service is once again moving forward with a large old-growth logging project on Prince of Wales Island. The agency released its draft decision and final environmental impact statement for the Twin Mountain II timber sale last week, kicking off a 45-day objection period.
