KTOO News Update
The day’s local and state news in about 10 minutes.
Newscast – Monday, July 1, 2019
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.
Read More »Newscast – Friday, June 28, 2019
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.
Read More »Newscast – Thursday, June 27, 2019
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.
Read More »Newscast – Wednesday, June 26, 2019
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.
Read More »Newscast – Tuesday, June 25, 2019
In this newscast: Alaskans weigh in on the Pebble mine as the public comment deadline approaches for its Army Corps of Engineers permit, state lawmakers grant themselves back pay in conflict with the intent of a law that tried to bar it for failing to timely pass an operating budget, and Juneau teens hold the first youth Pride party as part of Pride Week.
Read More »Newscast – Monday, June 24, 2019
In this newscast: Legislative leaders defy Gov. Mike Dunleavy's special session call to Wasilla in favor of Juneau, the Alaska Marine Highway System plans to tie up the ferry Columbia this winter to save money, a video posted to Facebook of the cruise ship Eurodam closely passing a pod of humpback whales near Juneau triggers a NOAA investigation, the Tlingit and Muckleshoot voice actress behind the title character in "Molly of Denali" answers questions at the show's world premiere, the Peninsula Oilers summer collegiate baseball team is in jeopardy due to declining revenue, Taku River levels are rising from a glacial dam release.
Read More »Newscast – Friday, June 21, 2019
In this newscast: The Legislative Affairs Agency provides cost estimates for the July special session, lawmakers authorize a lawsuit against the Dunleavy administration over education funding, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority proposes short-term financing to incentivize work at Ketchikan's shipyard, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski remains noncommittal about her stance on Pebble Mine, and increasingly bad Arctic ice conditions are hamstringing polar bear researchers.
Read More »Newscast – Thursday, June 20, 2019
In this newscast: Three Alaskans lose their appeal for victim status in the Carnival Corp. pollution settlement, Gov. Dunleavy addresses the Legislature's permanent fund working group, federal authorities' tally of dead gray whales in Alaska waters reaches 10, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov visits Sitka, the former manager of the Bergmann Hotel is sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling methamphetamine in Juneau, Republican senators in Oregon face daily fines for fleeing the statehouse to avoid a vote on what could be the nation's second statewide cap-and-trade law, and federal research in Washington state confirms that marijuana use doubled over three years after legal pot stores opened there.
Read More »Newscast – Wednesday, June 19, 2019
In this newscast: The U.S. House passes a spending bill with a sentence that would sideline permitting for Pebble Mine, sites contaminated with harmful chemicals plague rural Alaska, and residents of a Norwegian island in the Artic petition to go "time-free" for summer.
Read More »Newscast – Tuesday, June 18, 2019
In this newscast: the latest on the permanent fund dividend debate, a new report ranks Alaska at or near the bottom among the states for how kids and teens are doing, the widow of a Juneau shooting victim the shooter exchange words at a sentencing hearing, an Indiana man accused of catfishing an Anchorage teen in an Anchorage murder and child pornography scheme now faces a murder charge himself, GCI announces it's building a new 5G wireless network in Anchorage, and Amazon is enlarging its jet fleet to speed up deliveries.
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