Newscasts

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A Juneau police officer fatally shoots a Juneau man after responding to a disturbance, 
authorities on the Kenai Peninsula identify the body of a woman from Kake who vanished a year ago, 
Gov. Mike Dunleavy creates an oversight committee to monitor BP’s sale of its Alaska business to Hilcorp,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service outlines how polar bears and oil exploration could co-exist in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 
officials extend the emergency declaration in Willow, 
state transportation officials launch a road and traffic monitoring system for the public, 
an indigenous Canadian pop artist known for Inuktitut language songs dies at age 26, 
Sarah Palin buys and sells property in Arizona through a Delaware-based company, and 
the National Weather Service says to expect temperatures to dip and the snow to start sticking across Southeast in the new year. 

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a fish farm operator says predators likely ate most of their escaped Atlantic salmon, 
the leader of Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends pitches her carbon emissions plan, 
the legal age to buy tobacco is going up to 21 in late 2020, 
a 25-mile stretch of the Richardson Highway near Paxson remains closed, 
weather is hampering the response to Willow Creek flooding in the Mat-Su Borough, 
a Coast Guard seaman is facing a court martial for an alleged murder during a night of drinking in Alaska, 
economic experts size up the potential effects of hundreds of oil industry workers leaving the state in the BP-Hilcorp transition, and 
Volkswagen announces it will produce 1 million electric cars a year by the end of 2023. 

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Politicos parse U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s impeachment press,  
populations of more than a half-dozen groundfish species have rebounded to healthy levels in the Pacific, 
the Census advertising campaign begins in Alaska, 
scientists and policymakers promote a permanent seismic monitoring system in Alaska, 
state lawyers seek the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit brought by Pioneer Home residents, 
the owners of the Mustang oil project on the North Slope miss a $3.1 million payment to a state corporation, 
two Alaskan high school students earn college scholarships and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington D.C., 
temperatures dip as low as -50 degrees in a northwest Alaska cold snap, and 
an Anchorage woman donates a bullet and stab protective vest to a K9 officer in Wyoming. 

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Thousands of Atlantic salmon escape a fish farm north of Vancouver Island, 
state health officials share a new medication assisted treatment guide with health care providers, 
why some locals 👍🏽, ❤️ and ✊ over new bathroom signs, 
Anvil Mountain Correctional Center’s annual Christmas potlatch brings inmates hope and healing, and
the National Weather Service issues a high wind watch for the Juneau area. 

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The family of a former Juneau man killed by police in Fairbanks discuss their lawsuit against the authorities, 
a former Alaska juvenile justice official gets sentenced on federal charges for having child pornography, 
the state completes an update of its missing persons database, 
homes are evacuated in Willow after an ice jam causes flooding, 
RavnAir says a malicious cyber attack forces flight cancellations,
Sand Point reels from the shutdown of the Trident Seafoods fish processing plant, 
Toksook Bay city officials brings the DMV to the village to help residents get their REAL ID licenses, and 
Sitka municipal planners look into adopting codes to accommodate tiny homes. 

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Pebble Mine opponents react with outrage to a CNN report that Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed letters essentially written by the Pebble Limited Partnership, 
Gov. Dunleavy  says his national news interviews were intended to put Alaska on the map and draw investor interest, 
Alaska Marine Highway System employees cope with reduced sailings, 
Alaska’s congressional delegation secures millions in funding for rural communities near national forests in Alaska, 
state lawmakers approve a $30 per day stipend to legislative staffers who move to Juneau for the session, 
Goldman Sachs announces it won’t finance ventures to explore or develop oil prospects in ANWR, 
an Anchorage contractor pleads guilty to a federal charge for defrauding military veterans with service-connected disabilities, 
the National Park Service will limit the opening of the Denali National Park road due to a collapsed hillside along the route, and 
a report on hydroelectric dams along the Snake River in Washington finds no consensus over whether to keep or remove them.