KTOO News Update
The day’s local and state news in about 10 minutes.
Newscast – Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018
In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly rolls back protections in the building codes for eagles' nests, the small ferry LeConte misses its Juneau-Haines sailings because of nasty weather, new bills to enshrine Alaska Permanent Fund dividends gum up efforts to balance the state's budget, and Southeast Alaska is under gale warning with gusts forecast up to 55 knots.
Read More »Newscast – Monday, Jan. 8, 2018
In this newscast: State Sen. Mike Dunleavy plans to resign his seat in order to run for governor, Juneau police responded to two separate stabbings late last week and a report warns that Alaska's 20 officially recognized Native languages are at risk of losing their last fluent speakers by the end of this century.
Read More »Newscast – Friday, Jan. 5, 2018
In this newscast: Hong Kong-bound United Airlines flight diverted to Anchorage Sitka hospital abruptly ends baby deliveries Juneau storytellers sought for spring theater production
Read More »Newscast – Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018
KTOO’s midday newscast for Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. In this newscast: the Trump administration has proposed a vast increase in offshore waters available for oil drilling nationwide; the Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will rescind an Obama-era decision that helped open the door to commercial cannabis industries in states like Alaska; and a homicide trial scheduled for this week has been delayed until the end of April.
Read More »Newscast – Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018
Stories include an Anchorage man who was sentenced to over 11 years in prison for selling Oxycodone, a 38-year-old Wasilla man was charged in the death of a 37-year-old Wasilla woman, ancient DNA provides glimpse of Native American ancestors, and Michelle Ridgway of Juneau has died after a car accident on Friday.
Read More »Newscast – Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018
In this newscast: Juneau and outgoing police Lt. Kris Sell wrap up the first Year of Kindness, Alaska's justice system transitions to a new bail system that's not based on cash, the family of a woman in a wheelchair who died from an escalator injury is suing Alaska Airlines, and locals ring in the new year with a mass dip into Auke Rec.
Read More »Newscast — Friday, Dec. 29, 2017
In this newscast: Juneau’s warming shelter exceedingly popular Clock approaches midnight for Congress to renew this oil industry tax
Read More »Newscast – Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017
In this newscast: King salmon in three Southeast Alaska watersheds are labeled "stocks of concern," Southeast is due for new fisheries proposals at next month's Board of Fisheries meeting, Ed Schoefeld recaps Southeast Alaska's biggest stories for 2017, and an Italian company begins the first oil exploration project in Arctic federal waters since 2015.
Read More »Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017
Stories include possible restrictions on king salmon fishing on some Southeast Alaska rivers, an upcoming homicide trial in Juneau, identification of an Alaska State Trooper who shot a suspect in the back of a patrol car, and a sentence for a Fairbanks felon who possessed firearms.
Read More »Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017
In this newscast: Details of a state-ExxonMobil plan to develop the Point Thomson natural gas field come out, Juneau school officials pick a head coach of a soon-to-be merged high school football team, state troopers report officer-involved shootings in both Soldotna and Fairbanks, and a shot is fired to break up a pair of dogs fighting in a Mendenhall Valley neighborhood.
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