In this newscast: Juneau police and EMTs train for an active shooter scenario, the Alaska House votes to spend an extra $892 million on permanent fund dividends,
Washington state moves to ban Atlantic salmon farms, and the National Weather Service extends the area’s winter storm warning to 5 p.m.
Jeremy Hsieh
Local News Reporter, KTOO
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House floor debate on state operating budget continues for third day
The House has been voting down the minority caucus Republicans’ budget amendments. Minority leader Charisse Millett, R-Anchorage, says it’s still worthwhile to have the conversation.
Newscast – Thursday, March 22, 2018
In this newscast: House lawmakers continue debating the state operating budget for a third day, attorneys in a cruise ship murder case fight over how the defendant’s blood will be handled, Congress’s latest federal funding bill doesn’t include riders relaxing limits on Tongass logging, and the National Weather Service issues a high wind warning for Juneau and Douglas.
Newscast – Tuesday, March 20, 2018
In this newscast: Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he’s discovered the wreckage of the World War II-ear USS Juneau, the Juneau Assembly pivots toward selling its Hurlock Avenue property, the Kodiak Launch Complex readies for its first commercial space flight launch in April, and Fairbanks’ mayor defends a decision to demolish a historic Masonic Temple for safety.
Newscast – Thursday, March 15, 2018
In this newscast: An Alaska Airlines pilot who says she was drugged and raped by a colleague sues her employer, Juneau’s Aquatics Board gets extended another year, Wrangell declares a drinking water emergency with only a month’s supply left, and one of the nation’s last Blockbuster’s in North Pole announces it will shutter in April.
Newscast – Tuesday, March 13, 2018
In this newscast: Federal regulators lay out a timeline for its review of the Alaska LNG megaproject that could lead to construction in 2020, a break in the weather lets rescuers resume searching for two missing Mendenhall Towers climbers, a trial is set for February 2019 for a man accused of a 2015 double murder in Juneau, and Norwegian musher Joar Ulsom develops a commanding lead in the Iditarod with only 77 miles to go.