In this newscast: For the first time in over a week Petersburg’s active COVID-19 case count dropped Monday; An unfolding outbreak in Cordova, the Prince William Sound fishing town of 2,000, is a cautionary tale about what happens when residents don’t follow mitigation guidelines; A new musical project led by Nicholas Galanin has signed with legendary SubPop records; Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has declined to reappoint Loren Jones of Juneau to the board the regulates the state’s legal marijuana industry; Alaska and Canadian officials in British Columbia have announced they have completed and will not continue data collection on three transboundary watersheds.
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Army Corps agrees to reconsider Pebble Mine permit denial
The Corps decided in November that Pebble’s plan to mitigate the environmental damage was inadequate and that the project doesn’t serve the public.
Scammers are targeting family members of missing Alaskans, troopers say
A trooper press release warning Alaskans about the scam said the caller claims the missing person was kidnapped and now is sick and demands money for their safe return.
Hundreds of appointments still available for Juneau’s next mass vaccination clinic
Case count trends lines are going in the right direction, but city officials are worried about more aggressive variants of COVID-19 making their way to Juneau.
Latest music project with Nicholas Galanin signs with Sub Pop Records, to release album in April
Galanin, who is Tlingit and Unangax̂, also works as a carver, engraver and visual artist.
Sometimes a bird gets into your store. In Unalaska, sometimes the bird is an eagle.
The Department of Fish and Game says “it’s hard to get them out of those rafters.”