Jeremy Hsieh

In this newscast: The state Senate is set to debate the operating budget, The Juneau Empire and two sister papers in Alaska are sold again, and the Foghorn Stringband is in town for the Alaska Folk Festival and plays an impromptu outdoor Red Carpet Concert. 

In this newscast: Gov. Walker’s climate change team meets in Fairbanks, state lawmakers shoot down a midwife’s board confirmation over her Planned Parenthood work history, and Sitka National Historical Park and the Sitka Tribe of Alaska team up to offer summer Tlingit culture programs. 

In this newscast: The Alaska Supreme Court says the Democratic Party can let independents run in their primaries, an Alaska Native language emergency resolution moves through the Legislature, distilleries get a few more months of cocktail mixing because of a public notice foul-up, commercial salmon trollers in Southeast are tied up this month because of salmon conservation concerns, and a high wind warning remains in effect in downtown Juneau and Douglas. 

In this newscast: Project Playground backers deliver a big check to Juneau for rebuilding, a former White House communications director gets hired to work for the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. in D.C., a Juneau man with a swastika tattooed to his head gets sent back to prison for probation violations, and Anchorage’s first vote-by-mail election winds down. 

In this newscast: State and Democratic Party lawyers argue over whether independents can run in party primaries, the state’s operating budget remains in political limbo in a divided House of Representatives, Haines officials solicit input on a major Chilkat Valley timber sale, and state troopers report arresting a man for firing shots at a fishing vessel near Klawock.