KTOO News Update
The day’s local and state news in about 10 minutes.
Newscast – Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019
In this newscast, Juneau’s legislative delegation looks to get ahead of potential cuts to state jobs, signal detected from missing Guardian Flight plane, Knopp votes against Republican Talerico for speaker as House stalemate continues and Donlin Gold says its dam design is much safer than the one that collapsed last month in Brazil.
Read More »Newscast – Monday, Feb. 11, 2019
In this newscast: In Juneau incoming freshmen choose between the town's two main high schools, the Governor's Arts and Humanities Awards took place last week as the governor prepares to lay out his budget plan for the coming year and some Alaska lawmakers think the state's new ethics rules are too limiting.
Read More »Newscast – Friday, Feb. 8, 2019
In this newscast: The outgoing Walker administration warned lawmakers that new oil development in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska wouldn't turn the state a profit until 2026, two students turn up at Gov. Michael Dunleavy's Capitol office to deliver a petition to restore climate change policy documents online, caribou tendons are being worked into a thread called "ivalu" in preparation for Utqiagvik's spring whaling season, Facebook responds to Alaska Native artists complaints that their posts are being taken down that sell sea otter fur items, thirteen tribes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are appealing permits for the proposed Donlin gold mine, and more than 1,000 bales of straw were distributed along the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race course ahead of the March 2 start.
Read More »Newscast – Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019
In this newscast: Deaths from opioid overdoses are trending down in Alaska, state officials want to train teachers on how to do their jobs with children who've had traumatic experiences, new science shows bad effects of changes in salinity levels affecting eiders, and the Juneau Police Department nabs a burglary suspect by following footprints in the snow.
Read More »Newscast – Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019
In this newscast: The state's new education commissioner says it's time to review how public schools are funded, the Alaska Mental Health Trust decides it's ready to sell it's downtown subport lot, the newly Democratically controlled U.S. House holds hearings on climate change for the first time in about a decade, state ferry boosters discuss the system's value ahead of anticipated cost-cutting measures from the governor, and the Alaska House of Representatives sets a record for longest session without a speaker and committees.
Read More »Newscast – Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019
In this newscast: city officials move forward with preliminary work to build a new transit center in the Mendenhall Valley, public meetings begin in Fairbanks on oil and gas work in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the governor's pick to head the Alaska Department of Fish and Game pits hunters and wildlife preservationists at odds, the marijuana industry states concern about Gov. Dunleavy's regulatory appointments, and local support in Homer pours in for the family of a Coast Guard officer killed in a crane accident.
Read More »Newscast – Monday Feb. 4, 2019
In this newscast: Gov. Dunleavy's administration defends its screening process for high-level hires, credit rating agencies await the new state's new budget, state recruiters target high schoolers to come back after college to address a behavioral health worker shortage, the trial of former fisheries industry leader Roland Maw gets delayed, President Trump names a new secretary of Interior, and the National Weather Service issues a winter weather watch for Tuesday evening.
Read More »Newscast – Friday, Feb. 1, 2019
In this newscast: The medical community mourns the loss of three Guardian Flight colleagues in Juneau, a timber sale on Prince of Wales Island continues after the shutdown, an antique mortar was detonated after being found in a Haines museum collection, and a Sitka craftsman makes “sensual” bowls out of wood recovered from the Tongass.
Read More »Newscast – Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019
In this newscast: Governor Mike Dunleavy unveiled his proposals to amend the Alaska Constitution Wednesday, Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority officials update state lawmakers on their progress since a report found mismanagement issues, An Anchorage Man is returned to the United States after being held for six months for illegally entering Russia, and the Trump…
Read More »Newscast – Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019
In this newscast: The state Department of Environmental Conservation introduced a new program aimed at monitoring air quality downtown in the summer, Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed supplemental budget would cut nearly half of the state ferry system’s cash reserves, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski reintroduced a bill aimed at preventing violence against Indigenous women and girls on…
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