Jeremy Hsieh, KTOO

In this newscast: Juneau Assemblyman and longtime legislative aide Jesse Kiehl announces he’s running for state Senate, a backlog of applications for state marijuana business licenses is piling up, and the Outer Coast College in Sitka secures its inaugural summer seminar class. 

In this newscast: Juneau schools get funded for the 2018-2019 school year, Rep. Sam Kito III says he’s been booted off the Legislative Council, and a Juneau woman is killed in a vehicle-pedestrian collision by Brotherhood Bridge. 

In this newscast: State lawmakers reach a tentative compromise on how to draw permanent fund earnings for state government, an ombudsman report identifies major problems and a backlog of public assistance applications insurmountable without more staff, local fire investigators identify the cause of a boat condo explosion and fire, and SECON plans quarry blasting in the Lemon Creek area on Thursday. 

In this newscast: The Alaska Legislature puts out a compromise bill to use permanent fund earnings for state operations, Alaska-based soldiers advising their counterparts in Afghanistan are rotating back from deployment, the state wants the public to weigh in on how to spend Volkswagen settlement money, and smoke drifts into downtown Juneau from a controlled burn off Thane Road.