KTOO News Department

In this newscast: Juneau’s city clerk’s office certified a citizen ballot proposition late last week that seeks to raise the city’s cap on the local property tax rate; A draft environmental assessment looking at homeporting up to two Coast Guard icebreakers in Juneau is open for public comment; A glacial lake outburst flood on the Taku River south of Juneau crested early Wednesday morning; Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland came to Juneau last weekend as a stop on a tour of her new memoir “A Voice Like Mine”; School districts across Alaska are set to receive up to $115 million in one-time funding this year thanks to high oil prices; In June, the Sitka Sound Science Center’s marine debris cleanup program crew found a message in a bottle

In this newscast: A group of state lawmakers tasked with drafting a final version of an Alaska LNG tax relief bill kicked off work this weekend; Governor Mike Dunleavy vetoed nearly half a million dollars from the state budget Wednesday that would have gone toward efforts to retain and recruit teachers in Alaska; A new nonprofit Jiu Jitsu studio opened this month; One Alaska couple shares their experience over a 50 year relationship for pride month

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly made a number of appointments and reappointments to city boards during a special meeting Wednesday; Former Alaska state senator Natasha Von Imhof has thrown her hat in the ring in the race for Anchorage’s next mayor; Gov. Mike Dunleavy told lawmakers he’d vetoed six bills, and dozens more have passed into law; KTOO’s Mike Lane speaks with Walk Southeast organizers

In this newscast:  Gov. Mike Dunleavy trimmed nearly $90 million from the state budget with line-item vetoes before signing a series of appropriations bills Wednesday afternoon; Bookings opened Thursday morning for Juneau’s new public use cabin at the Mendenhall Campground; There is a new social media trend of people dancing around Alaska Native totem poles. Tribal organizations across Southeast Alaska are speaking out; Harmful toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisonings are again present in the waters around Southeast Alaska; Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill on Wednesday naming a longtime University of Alaska Anchorage economic research center after its first director, Vic Fischer

In this newscast: A Juneau man was arrested last week after he allegedly chased two girls in the Mendenhall Valley; The former Juneau Police officer who slammed a man to the ground during an arrest last summer is asking a court judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against him; A new state law enacted Monday allows charitable organizations to gamble on snowfall; A U.S. Department of Defense agency is preparing to exhume the remains of an unidentified WWII soldier buried in Sitka National Cemetery this week