Pablo Arauz Peña, KTOO

In this newscast: Canada has banned cruise ship travel in its waters for another year; Two weeks into the Biden administration, the emphasis of vaccinations has shifted to equity instead of speed; The Alaska House of Representatives elected a temporary speaker today; The Biden administration has chosen Anchorage attorney Natalie Landreth for a high ranking job in the interior department.

In this newscast: Alaska’s subsistence councils are entering the new year at reduced strength; Southeast Alaska faced double-digit job losses between 2019 and 2020; The state has had a cold few days to start off the month of February; Alaska Wildlife Troopers killed a moose after a woman posted a video on social media showing herself feeding and petting the animal.

In this newscast: On Monday, Juneau policymakers took a big picture look at two cruise industry infrastructure projects; Earlier this year, city workers installed a new public art project in downtown Juneau; President Biden and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued orders requiring masks for most people traveling on public planes, trains boats and road vehicles.

In this newscast: The state commissioner who oversees the Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles says they have finished a review of how personalized license plates with Nazi references became street legal; One thing that 2020 taught us is that moving a huge chunk of the workforce out of the office and into the living room or garage or yurt, can work; There’s been a lot of talk nationally about wearing two face masks, instead of just one as new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus circulate; Sen. Lisa Murkowski and other moderate Republicans are presenting a new pandemic relief proposal to President Biden today; Alaska health officials have asked people who prematurely signed up for vaccine appointments to cancel them.

In this newscast: More people are leaving Juneau than arriving; Instead of meeting in person, high school music students in Southeast Alaska are performing in virtual band and choir performances; Two Fairbanks area missing person’s cases have been solved.