Newscasts

In this newscast: Sen. Lisa Murkowski says President Trump acted unlawfully and the House was right to impeach him; Alaska lost a bit of its maritime history this week; COVID-19 has claimed the life an Angoon elder; Sealaska Corporation is getting out of the logging business after more than 40 years; Democratic lawmakers in Congress are trying to reinstate the Roadless Rule for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.

In this newscast: State lawmakers in Juneau and local law enforcement are preparing for the possibility of violence after the FBI warned of potential armed protests in each state capitol this coming Sunday; Alaska’s largest Alaska Native organization is calling for President Donald Trump to resign; Just before Christmas, the Juneau Assembly discussed putting more money into two grant programs intended to pay people who are financially hurting because of the pandemic; The Juneau School Board is considering starting all of its meetings with an acknowledgment of local Alaska Native claims to their lands. 

In this newscast: Why more experienced skiers have been getting themselves caught in avalanches during the pandemic; Sealaska Heritage Institute published four new books to bolster its efforts of teaching indigenous language and culture to kids; Cable TV customers across Alaska have lost network channels in a dispute over broadcast fees between cable company GCI and channel providers.

In this newscast: Juneau’s COVID-19 response team hopes to bypass some of the problems people have had signing up for a vaccine by hosting its own local vaccine clinic next week; Washington state’s attorney general and a legal coalition of 40 Tribes, states and community organizations filed a motion to block the sale of the National Archives building in Seattle; State Republican Rep. Lance Pruitt lost his legal challenge today in Alaska’s Supreme Court; Federal and state entities signed a 50-year right of way permit for the controversial Ambler Road project on Wednesday; The first baby of 2021 born at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau came into the world at 7:50 on Tuesday morning. 

In this newscast: The appointment process to get vaccinated against COVID-19 opened up on Wednesday for Alaska’s roughly 90,000 seniors, but it didn’t go smoothly; A handful of protesters showed up at the state capitol building in Juneau on Wednesday morning,  but they didn’t stay for long; The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska issued a statement condemning the extremist violence in Washington, DC.

In this newscast: An avalanche on Mt. Juneau Monday morning turned out to be harmless, but it could be a sign of more to come; Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s emergency disaster declaration has been expanded to include relief for residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed; Getting the new COVID-19 vaccines to rural Alaska is no small logistical feat; More than two dozen Native American and Alaska Native tribes, along with Washington and Oregon, are suing the federal government to stop the sale of the National Archives building in Seattle.

In this newscast: KTOO’s Jeremy Hsieh has a look back at Juneau’s biggest stories of 2020; Congress signed the most significant law to fight climate change in years, maybe ever; A judge in Anchorage says she could rule as soon as tomorrow on a request by environmental groups to block the Trump administration’s lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

In this newscast: Juneau is accepting applications for its Systemic Racism Review Committee to address longstanding issues related to race in the community; Around Christmas, there were reports of an earthquake and major mountain rockslide in the wilderness near Juneau; Anyone in the U.S. or Canada who pulled up a Google search on Wednesday would have a seen the homepage logo replaced with an illustration of Alaska civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich.

In this newscast: 

U.S. Senate begins the process to override President Trump’s veto of the annual defense bill, 
Sen. Murkowski is the first member of Alaska’s congressional delegation to get a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, 
State health officials are still working on who will get vaccinated when, 
The limited supply of reagents for COVID-19 testing may bottleneck Juneau’s new system for testing in town, 
The state Department of Corrections says almost every inmate at Goose Creek Correctional Center has had the coronavirus, 
Anchorage is relaxing its coronavirus restrictions, 
The federal government finalizes an agreement with a mining company to permanently seal a former uranium mine in the Tongass National Forest, and
The University of Alaska Anchorage alpine ski team raises enough money to save itself from elimination. 

Juneau’s landfill has been extra stinky lately, here’s what’s causing it, 

Alaska lawmakers will be required to wear facemasks during floor sessions, that and other rules were adopted by a joint House-Senate Legislative Council on Monday, it’s not clear how long those rules will be in effect. 
The collision of a warm, wet weather front with a mass of cold air from Siberia could set a new record: the lowest barometric pressure recorded in the North Pacific, 
While the COVID-19 pandemic forced many schools and colleges to innovate ways to teach students remotely, one University of Alaska Campus was already there.