Pablo Arauz Peña, KTOO

In this newscast: The Fourth of July is this Sunday and many Americans are eager to celebrate after more than a year of social distancing; Legislators voted earlier this week to avoid a partial government shutdown, but they couldn’t agree on how to fund college scholarships to support more than 5,400 Alaskan students; A deadly fungus could threaten several amphibian species in the Tongass National Forest; Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy today vetoed around 12% of the ferry operating budget.

The Alaska Performance Scholarship and the Alaska Education Grant programs provide students across the state with vital funds for their studies. About 150 students at the University of Alaska Southeast received the scholarships last year.

In this newscast: Major flooding on the Taku River near Juneau is underway after a glacial dam release dumped even more water into an already swollen river; Employees of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium must be vaccinated for COVID by today; Police in the Southeast community of Wrangell were recently equipped with body cameras that log an officer’s interactions with the public; A new mayor takes the reins of Alaska’s largest city on Thursday.

In this newscast: The Juneau School District is looking for input from the community as it heads into the new year; Talon Lobaugh saved a paraglider who got stuck between two trees 60 feet above the ground on Sunday; More people are injured by moose than bears in Alaska each year; The Alaska House of Representatives voted Monday to allow the budget bill to go into effect on July 1.

In this newscast: During his twelve years as a U.S. Senator for Alaska, Mike Gravel stirred up a lot of controversy. But on Saturday, he died quietly at the age of 91, surrounded by his family in Seaside, California; It’s gotten a little harder for Alaska patients to get telehealth appointments with their doctors who are outside of the state; Sealaska shareholders have elected two new directors to the Alaska Native corporation’s board of directors; The Alaska House has reached an agreement intended to avoid a partial government shutdown just days ahead of the new fiscal year.

Talon Lobaugh spent several hours on Sunday rescuing a woman who was stuck between two trees while paragliding.

Workers are trying to keep delays down to a maximum of 20 minutes.

A representative of the Áak’w Kwáan Coalition Council says T’aaḵu Kwáan aren’t Native to the Juneau area and that they came from up the Taku River, in what is now Canada, to Juneau during the Gold Rush era.

In this newscast: The Biden administration announced Friday intentions to reinstate protections for Tongass National Forest; Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve broke ground last week on a $6.5 million dollar project to connect the park to renewable hydroelectric power by the end of the year; For the first time in years, the Fort William H. Seward barracks building in Haines will be open to the community for a public auction, with some of the items dating back to the 1940s; This weekend kicks off the Qagruq Whaling Festival in Point Hope.

In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau announced two closures at a popular hiking spot next week to clear up rockslide debris in the area; A section of land along the Lemon Creek side of Thunder Mountain in Juneau has been identified as a potential landslide hazard; The National Park Service is planning two projects in the Skagway area; For the first time in nearly 15 months, Juneau’s Chamber of Commerce met for lunch, in person.