Newscasts

In this newscast: Juneau’s Egan and Vanderbilt intersection is back open after months of construction; The Juneau School Board approved a new lease for after-school childcare at Sayéik: Gastineau Community School last Thursday; With Alaska’s primary election on Tuesday, money is pouring into Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, and not just for the two candidates running multi-million-dollar campaigns. Pop-up political groups have also spent more than $2 million to support fringe candidates and political unknowns, some who’ve never lived in the state; A landslide last week blocked off the only route between Skagway and Whitehorse, Yukon. No one was injured but the road is now partially closed.

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly will decide the fate of Juneau’s current City Hall building at its meeting on Monday night; The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Friday that it will go through a fast bidding process, like the TV show “Shark Tank,” to select an industry partner that will help end Juneau’s glacial outburst floods. This comes just one day after Juneau avoided catastrophe during the annual flood; Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone celebrated Thursday afternoon as the Mendenhall River crested at a level well below initial predictions. The event was much less destructive than disastrous floods that struck over the past three years; At a press conference Thursday evening, Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson, president of the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, called the glacial outburst flood event “anticlimactic”; Primary Election Day is this Tuesday. Voters can choose which candidates for governor, U.S House and Senate, and their local state legislators will move on to the General Election.

In this newscast: The glacial outburst flood has officially crested at 14.7 feet; KTOO reporter Alix Soliman provides an update on the flood in the Mendenhall Valley; An Alaska Seaplanes aircraft made an emergency landing in the Mendenhall River in Juneau late Thursday morning, during the glacial outburst flood.

In this newscast: The National Weather Service in Juneau is now forecasting Juneau’s glacier outburst flood will crest between 8 a.m. and noon on Thursday; Reporter Yvonne Krumrey receives a flood update from Juneau emergency programs manager Ryan O’Shaughnessy; Mendenhall Valley residents spent Tuesday and Wednesday preparing to evacuate – or hunkering down.

In this newscast: The National Weather Service issued a glacial outburst flood warning alerting the public that the flood has begun on Tuesday; Sport fisherman in Southeast can catch more king salmon in the region beginning this month; Officials from Fairbanks and the Arctic Winter Games inked an agreement Monday naming the Interior Alaska city as the host for 2028; Flushable wipes are wreaking havoc on Anchorage’s wastewater treatment systems.

In this newscast: Forecasters expect the glacial lake responsible for producing Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood to be full this week; The Alaska Beacon reports that a small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour last week to help a 21-foot skiff that ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau; A Juneau nonprofit is among the first announced to be awarded grant funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program. Alaska health officials approved spending $4.5 million dollars worth of a $272 million federal allocation toward more than a dozen  Alaska health care projects last week; After-school childcare is on the agenda for Tuesday night’s school board meeting. The Juneau Board of Education will take a first look at a lease with a local childcare provider to run a program at Sayéik: Gastineau Community School; A Juneau fire captain was charged with domestic violence assault in an incident involving his 12-year-old stepdaughter last summer. Brent Clancy was convicted of that crime and will be sentenced on Thursday. He faces up to five years in prison; Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced that she’ll vote no on Todd Blanche for U.S. attorney general; The Alaska Division of Elections is sending follow-up letters to most of the 3,000 voters it struck from the active voter list this summer.