KTOO News Department

In this newscast: Juneau police have confirmed the identity of a man whose remains were discovered in a chest freezer last week at a home in Lemon Creek; Three people are dead after a fiery plane crash Tuesday night near McCarthy; A volunteer group freed a humpback whale that was entangled in a gillnet near Petersburg last night; Juneau veteran says he was denied First Amendment rights during July 4 parade; Members of the Alaska Legislature are asking the state Division of Elections to immediately retore the voter status of thousands of Alaskans the division deactivated based on outdated information; Hundreds of people gathered in Haines this weekend for the annual Southeast Alaska State Fair

In this newscast:  For the second year in a row, the Juneau Assembly has rejected putting two bond debt proposals on the local election ballot; It’s been one year since a Juneau officer was caught on camera violently slamming a man to the ground during an arrest; A new class developed by whale biologists and marine pilots in Southeast Alaska will soon teach mariners how to avoid hitting humpback whales while sailing large ships; A widespread weather reporting outage affected Alaska Monday

In this newscast: Forecasters predict the glacial lake responsible for producing Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood will fill a bit later than initially forecast; Eight candidates are vying for three open seats on the Juneau Assembly during this fall’s local election; The upcoming school year is less than one month away and district leadership says operations will remain largely the same; A handful of state legislators returned to Juneau on Monday to begin a third special session on tax breaks for the Alaska LNG project; A new Anchorage Police program aims to improve public safety by getting people into substance use treatment

Southcentral Alaska’s largest natural gas utility is asking state regulators to consider allowing it to develop more natural gas storage; A Juneau mom’s sourdough microbakery in Mendenhall Valley has quickly risen in popularity; Recently discovered fossils in northern Alaska show rodent-like mammals roamed the land 70 million years ago, and they’ve been given Inupiaq names

A Juneau public transportation survey closes Sunday; The University of Alaska Southeast is partnering with Minnesota-based Mitchell Hamline School of Law to allow Alaska students to get a law degree locally; The Juneau Assembly plans to tackle major local election topics on Monday; Investors that want to ship bulk water out of Sitka are asking for an extension to gather funding for a plan; The CDC reports a fourth gastrointestinal illness outbreak aboard the National Geographic Seabird since late May; Fewer sockeye salmon are returning to the Kenai River than did this time last year

In this newscast: The Alaska Division of Elections has moed thousands of registered voters to its “inactive” list due to suspicion that they are not citizens; As the candidate filing deadline approaches, the race for Juneau’s two open school board seats appears to be uncontested so far; One of Dutch Harbor’s major seafood processors plans to pay about $5,900 to federal regulators to settle violations of the Clean Water Act; Geoff and Marcy Larson talk about running the Alaskan Brewing Company, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.