The potential lease sale would cover about one million acres of the inlet and would be held next year.
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15 states sue to stop drilling plan for Arctic Refuge
The attorneys general of the 15 states argue that they have standing to sue because what happens in the Arctic Refuge affects their fish, wildlife and physical environment.
Ketchikan Borough Assembly asks state for LGBTQ protections after overriding mayor’s veto
The mayor, a retired Alaska State Trooper, said discrimination against police officers was in his eyes “by far a greater problem.”
Juneau to hold pop-up COVID-19 testing for people who have been going to bars
At least six bars and one restaurant in town temporarily closed after an outbreak among bar workers.
Newscast – Wednesday, September 9, 2020
In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau is trying to decide where to put its cold weather shelter, but the people staying there have been mostly absent from the conversation; There are a lot of downsides to the kind of heavy, prolonged rainfall in Southeast Alaska this summer but it did have some silver linings; Juneau emergency management officials say they’re considering escalating the community’s risk status following a new cluster of COVID-19 cases.
23 years ago, Alaska tried the wrong man for the murder of a Sitka teenager. Now police say they’ve found the real killer. Why wasn’t he a suspect all along?
“If Steve Branch wasn’t a suspect, why the hell not?”