Jeremy Hsieh

In this newscast: Two 13-year-olds get arrested and charged with “terroristic threatening” for statements reportedly overheard about Floyd Dryden Middle School, a scammer steals more than $300,000 from the City and Borough of Juneau, state regulators eliminate a requirement that they review air ambulance membership agreements, and Jay Inslee drops out of the presidential race and seeks a third term as Washington’s governor. 

In this newscast: Environmental lawyers gear up to fight the Trump administration’s energy policy changes in Alaska, the Catholic Diocese of Juneau announces that at least seven men who worked for the church since 1951 engaged in sexual misconduct, a state budget cut to a program that helped  local governments pay for school infrastructure will force local taxes to increase, and a security robot that was vandalized in California may help capture its vandal. 

In this newscast: Gov. Mike Dunleavy is still optimistic lawmakers will restore another $1,400 in permanent fund dividends in a fall special session, a group is seeking a statewide ballot question to raise taxes on the oil industry, the Juneau Assembly OKs three ballot questions for the October municipal to finance and improve arts and culture infrastructure, the Assembly also approves a five-year schedule of water and wastewater utility rate hikes, a resident of a Mendenhall Valley home dies after neighbors pull her from a smoke-filled home, the Parks and Sterling highways in Southcentral Alaska reopen amid wildfires but with heavy delays, and the University of Alaska Board of Regents end the system’s state of financial exigency. 

In this newscast: Gov. Mike Dunleavy announces his decisions on the Legislature’s latest funding bill, coastal communities react to the governor’s veto of $5 million from the Alaska Marine Highway System, federal rule changes around abortion referrals prompt Planned Parenthood to drop out of a federally funded family planning program, wildfires force evacuations and closures of the Parks and Sterling highways and, the parents of five young girls killed in a fire sue Enstar Natural Gas and property interests in a wrongful death lawsuit. 

In this newscast: Organizers of the campaign to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy push through an early signature gathering threshold, the Online With Libraries program and a free remote tutoring service get a reprieve from the governor’s budget cuts, the daughter of the late state Sen. Chris Birch applies to fill his seat, renowned Alaska Native languages linguist Michael Krauss dies, some of the creators behind “Molly of Denali” hold a vocal acting workshop in Juneau, and scientists in southern California test an underwater whale listening station intended to signal ship captains and reduce collisions. 

In this newscast: Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he could work with other organizations on spending reductions as he did with the University of Alaska, the hot, record-breaking summer has ended the summer dog sled tour business early this year, organizers of the Golden North Salmon Derby cancel due to potentially dangerous wind conditions, and two baby orcas appear to be doing well in the endangered southern resident population.