In this newscast:
Juneau’s Board of Education has approved new oral narrative standards for Lingít language to be taught to children;
A new airline with Juneau ties that will be making flights between Unalaska and Anchorage as delayed that route launch until 2022;
Legal challenges are expected after a divided Alaska’s Redistricting Board approved new maps;
Alaska Congressman Don Young named two veteran political consultants to his campaign team on Monday;
Yakutat’s village corporation has postponed its annual board election while it confers with its attorneys over its logging operations;
Petersburg’s latest COVID-19 outbreak has caused widespread disruption in the community;
A federal judge has blocked the enforcement of part of the American Rescue Plan that prohibits state from using pandemic relief to offset tax cuts
Newscasts
Newscast – Monday, Nov. 15, 2021
In this newscast:
COVID-19 numbers are falling statewide;
Juneau emergency officials relax some COVID precautions;
Tsimshian language learner Nancy Barnes shares how the language helped her get through the pandemic;
The Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska brings together coastal communities to discuss adapting to climate change;
A scientist who discovered the first fossils that showed the oldest whales walked on land visits UAF;
A Utah doctor is accused of lying about ill patients in his climbing party to get a helicopter ride off Denali.
Newscast – Friday, Nov. 12, 2021
In this newscast: Sen. Lisa Murkowski runs for re-election; Young kids get vaccinated for COVID-19 in Juneau; Scientists research risk of landslides in Glacier Bay National Park
Newscast – Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021
In this newscast:
The creators of an “Alaska Abusers” list say they’re trying to bring some accountability to abusers, others say vigilante justice may not be the best way to do that;
Juneau’s cold weather emergency shelter will be at Resurrection Lutheran Church near downtown;
Newscast – Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021
In this news update:
The name of a man fatally shot at a Fairbanks Safeway store has been released;
Haines residents welcomed the first Canadian visitor since March 2020 when the U.S. border re-opened on Monday;
Juneau’s dumpling restaurant expanded to Anchorage;
Investigators have begun collecting evidence at the site of a fatal airplane crash in Kodiak.
Newscast – Monday, Nov. 8, 2021
In this newscast:
Juneau police and family of a missing Juneau man say his body has been found;
State and federal wildlife authorities propose a 31-day harvest for wolves that conservationists would prefer to protect;
Chuck Bundrant, one of the founders of America’s largest seafood company, Trident, died last month at 79.