Newscasts

In this newscast: State lawmakers in Juneau ramp up their rhetoric against the governor and dissident lawmakers meeting in Wasilla, UAS Chancellor Rick Caulfield walks through the budget veto impacts on his branch of the university, UAA students and faculty brace for 700 layoffs and the elimination of a third of the school’s academic programs, and the city and rainbow enthusiasts in Juneau work out a way to legally paint a colorful crosswalk. 

In this newscast: The Alaska Legislature fails to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s budget vetoes, Juneau artists protest funding cuts to the Alaska State Council on the Arts, another line item veto eliminates funding for Local Emergency Planners across the state, two state agencies issued burn bans across large portions of the state Tuesday. 

In this newscast: Constituents confront state lawmakers aligned with Gov. Dunleavy in Wasilla, the legislative stalemate continues in Juneau, a tribal rights attorney and a former public safety commissioner discuss what U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s law enforcement emergency means for Alaska, and the summer’s first commercial salmon trolling fishery in Southeast Alaska wraps up. 

In this newscast: The Alaska Legislature’s second special starts up split between Juneau and Wasilla, About 50 protesters take to the highway near Wasilla for full permanent fund dividends while about 750 turnout in Juneau calling for budget veto overrides, Juneau city officials declare an emergency due to unhealthy air, researchers study DNA in indigenous Hoonah residents and descendants for possible genetic impacts of historical traumas, a small plane crashes near the Seldovia airport with no injuries, and researchers confirm a newborn orca calf that’s part of an endangered pod is female. 

In this newscast: Gov. Dunleavy’s vetoes include a $250,000 cut in funding for Alaska’s Civil Air Patrol, community campuses will also take a hit from funding cuts to the University of Alaska system, a “Men’s Gathering” in Juneau brought together men from across the state hoping to address violence. 

In this newscast: The EPA criticizes the Army Corps of Engineers’ draft report on the Pebble Mine, Independent Al Gross files to run against incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, fire crews make progress containing the Shovel Creek wildfire near Fairbanks, an investigation is underway after a Sand Point woman dies in corrections custody, a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assemblyman suggests doing away with invocations to do away with the invocation controversy, Juneau’s Fourth of July fireworks show is still on despite the state fire marshal’s fireworks ban, and St. Paul islanders celebrate the death of a rogue rat that could have devastated local seabird populations. 

In this newscast: Pro-ANWR development voices of Kaktovik say they get drowned out of the Arctic drilling debate, the New JACC Partnership seeks $7.5 million from the City and Borough of Juneau for a new performing arts center, the Alaska Marine Highway System extends the ferry Columbia’s service into October, a Juneau man hospitalized after being stabbed has died, a former Dunleavy cabinet deputy defends a business loan obtained through a state agency, and the Iditarod Trail Committee has a new CEO. 

In this newscast: Gov. Mike Dunleavy slashes hundreds of millions in state spending with line-item vetoes, University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen calls the cut devastating and irrational, stakeholders react to the vetoing of the on-board cruise ship environmental monitoring program, a Wrangell senior citizen and senior center operator describe what they’ll lose with the elimination of the state’s senior benefits program, Juneau’s lawmakers offer their reaction to the vetoes, city officials outline local impacts of the vetoes, and the state fire marshal bans the use and sale of fireworks due across much of Alaska due to fire danger. 

In this newscast: Another floatplane crashes in Ketchikan, Juneau city contractors discover PFOS chemicals near the Hagevig Fire Training Center, a dozen tribal and village police officers graduate in Bethel, and AIDEA is creating a $10 million loan program to make Ketchikan’s shipyard more competitive. 

In this newscast: Alaska’s attorney general and the Legislature’s top lawyer tee up a constitutional powers debate over special session locations, Juneau’s Willoughby District gets renamed the Aak’w Village District, the EPA reconsiders an Obama-era proposal to block the proposed Pebble Mine, and a UAF professor warns Congress about data security concerns in Chinese-made tech dominating commercial drone market.