Newscasts

In this newscast: Alaska’s public schools likely won’t get all the money lawmakers approved in a bipartisan vote last month after Gov. Mike Dunleavy unilaterally reduced education funding with a line-item veto; Juneau’s fire department is piloting a paid internship program this year that equips locals with certifications and skills needed to work in the field; A shipping container full of empty industrial-sized fish food bags fell off a barge heading from Baranof Island to the landfill in Petersburg and dozens of the plastic bags have washed up near Juneau over the past week; Residents are advised against harvesting clams, mussels and other shellfish near beaches across Southeast Alaska due to concerns about paralytic shellfish poisoning; Curious Juneau: Why is the state capital Juneau and not Anchorage

In this newscast: The massive budget reconciliation bill the U.S. House delivered to the Senate would block Medicaid patients from receiving care at Planned Parenthood health centers, and health care providers and advocates in Alaska are afraid that would prevent many Alaskans from getting critical health care; The Juneau School District is cracking down on cell phone use in schools; A group of state lawmakers is set to meet this summer and fall to continue working on ways to improve Alaska’s public schools; Researchers say it’s clear that wolves in parts of Southeast Alaska are increasingly turning to the sea, instead of the land, for food, but now there’s evidence that the behavior can have toxic results; Ketchikan’s tribal government will soon be under new leadership 

In this newscast: Juneteenth will now be an observed holiday for most City and Borough of Juneau employees starting next week; Juneau’s three Democratic state lawmakers met with constituents downtown to share what happened and what didn’t happen during this year’s legislative session; In Juneau, a traditional subsistence site owned by the federal government is now one step closer to returning to its original tribal owners; A contractor died while doing maintenance work at a popular cruise tourism facility near Ketchikan last month, and the company that hired him has a history of safety problems

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly voted to increase both the city’s property tax and utility rates for the fiscal year that begins in July; The City and Borough of Juneau plans to evict all residents of the historic downtown Telephone Hill neighborhood by October 1st; After upheaval in the federal funding that supports trail maintenance, KTOO checked up on the state of trail work in Juneau on National Trails Day; A team of about 10 people returned last month from visiting the old shipwreck site of the Star of Bengal near Wrangell

In this newscast:  Dozens of Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone learned how to prepare for flooding expected later this summer; Sealaska Heritage Institute is hoping people can help them identify the subjects of thousands of photos taken by a late Lingit leader; The Skagway Borough Assembly accepted Mayor Sam Bass’ resignation on Thursday; The Alaska Department of Corrections has taken in 40 people who were detained outside of the state by U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement

In this newscast:  Juneau is getting a new public-use cabin, this time built by a local trail maintenance nonprofit; The largest timber companies operating in Southeast Alaska want the Tongass National Forest to sell them more old-growth timber, and they’re suing the federal government to get it. The Department of Justice asked the court to throw the case out in May; An appeals court has ruled that the board that regulates subsistence hunting on federal lands within Alaska acted legally when it created an emergency hunt for a Southeast Alaska village during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency; Tongass Voices: Conservator Ellen Carlee on preserving the Alaska State Museum’s collection