In this newscast, the Juneau municipal election has been certified; poll shows challenger closing in on Rep. Young; Juneau school board swears in new members tonight; and the Republican Governor’s Association has paid more than $2.5 million for Dunleavy campaign.
Jennifer Pemberton
Managing Editor, KTOO
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Newscast – Monday, Oct. 8, 2018
In this newscast, a Juneau man was found dead in Gastineau Channel over the weekend, absentee ballots have been counted and local election results are in, in Ketchikan, an Indigenous Peoples Day celebration, and new ferry routes proposed for Prince William Sound and Upper Lynn Canal.
The Big Thaw audiogram: The Culprits
On the next episode of Midnight Oil — climate change comes for the oil industry.
In Kaktovik, sea ice loss means a boom in polar bear tourism
That’s when outsiders started showing up in Kaktovik: tourists, who wanted to see polar bears before they went extinct.
The Big Thaw Ep 4: The Visitors
While we hear a lot of alarm about how vulnerable polar bears are to climate change, in Kaktovik, changing ice conditions have created something different: too many bears.
The Big Thaw audiogram: The Visitors
As polar bears lose their habitat in the Arctic, they have no choice but to come to shore and try to live part of their lives on land.