KTOO News Update
The day’s local and state news in about 10 minutes.
Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017
Stories include: Case closed on Seward Street fire investigation, and Washington state man sentenced to 10 years for Alaska fraud scheme, and State releases this year’s revenue sources book.
Read More »Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017
In this newscast: The Office of Special Prosecutions says it won't prosecute Wasilla Sen. David Wilson for slapping a reporter in May, a natural gas pipeline in Russia competing with the Alaska LNG project makes its first delivery, Anchorage hits an all-time high for its annual homicide count, and the National Weather Service predicts another 2.5 to 3.5 inches of heavier rain to come.
Read More »Newscast — Monday, Dec. 11, 2017
In this newscast: The National Weather Service reports record-breaking temperatures for December, the Alaska House Majority Coalition calls for representative to resign amid sexual harassment allegations and volunteers hope to make makeshift soup kitchen at Downtown Transit Center a weekly event.
Read More »Newscast — Friday, Dec. 8, 2017
In this newscast: King salmon forecast predicts historic lows Juneau’s new pre-trial facility will be above DMV Bethel students busted selling pot-laced gummy bears Alaska House Speaker Bryce Edgmon calls on Senate to investigate Sen. Wilson
Read More »Newscast – Thursday, Dec., 7, 2017
KTOO’s midday newscast for Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 Wasilla Republican State Sen. David Wilson says the video of a June incident shows that he did not sexually harass a female legislative staffer; Two men are still missing in Gastineau Channel; and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been appointed to the conference committee that will reconcile the House and Senate versions of the tax bill.
Read More »Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017
Stories includes the latest on the search for two men missing in Gastineau Channel.
Read More »Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017
In this newscast: U.S. Rep. Don Young gets a seat on the conference committee rewriting federal tax policy, the clinic at Juneau's Housing First complex opens and admits its first patient, and a 5-year-old boy in Anchorage dies after shooting himself with a gun he found in a bedroom nightstand.
Read More »Newscast – Monday, Dec. 4, 2017
In this newscast: Sixty-nine mushers signed up for the 2018 Iditarod sled dog race by the Friday registration deadline and Juneau's new emergency warming shelter opened Friday.
Read More »Newscast – Friday, Dec. 1, 2017
In this newscast: U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan toes the GOP's line with tax bill rhetoric that conflicts with deficit projections, a metric system miscommunication leads to a massive under-reporting of fuel on an Alaska-bound barge that had a close call, and a Portland company backs out of its plans to buy Alaska's ferry Taku to turn it into a floating hotel.
Read More »Newscast – Thursday, November 30, 2017
In this newscast: The U.S. Senate votes to begin debate on tax bill, including language to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil development, the number of jobs in the Prudhoe Bay region has dropped to the lowest levels since 2007, and the Sealaska Heritage Institute, University of Alaska Southeast and several Southeast school districts are partnering to encourage Northwest Coast art in schools.
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