KTOO News Update
The day’s local and state news in about 10 minutes.
Newscast – Thursday, May 11, 2017
In this newscast: The Alaska Senate is poised to vote and reject a state income tax proposal, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is in Fairbanks for Arctic Council meetings, Wasilla Rep. David Eastman becomes the first member of the Alaska House to be censured, unable to sell its ferry Taku, the state lowers its minimum asking price, and Washington state is taking legal action against the U.S. government after a tunnel collapsed at its Hanford nuclear waste site.
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Newscast – Tuesday, May 9, 2017
In this newscast: Bartlett Regional Hospital's CEO estimates the American Health Care Act as passed by the House would cost the hospital $69 million over 10 years, fallen Juneau Police officer Karl Reishus will have a street named after him in a the new Pederson Hill subdivision, Sam, the 17-foot pet python that had gone missing from a two weeks ago in Meadow Lakes, has returned, and a few bars of The Vega String Quartet playing Monday's lunchtime Juneau Jazz and Classics concert in the State Office Building.
Read More »Newscast – Monday, May 8, 2017
In this newscast, the Eaglecrest Ski Area announced that it hired a former Alaskan living in Maine to be its new general manager and a Sitka man with Juneau ties was arrested on Saturday for killing his girlfriend.
Read More »Newscast – Friday, May 5, 2017
In this newscast: Police arrest Thane Road stabbing suspect at Switzer Mobile Home Park All-women art collective debuts at First Friday in downtown Juneau
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Newscast – Thursday, May 4, 2017
In this newscast: Congressman Don Young explains why he voted for the bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Juneau Assembly spares the downtown pool and Mt. Jumbo Gym from budget cutting, the Alaska Dispatch News says its reporter in the statehouse was slapped by a senator, and a federal budget deal restores funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, which supports the Alaska State Council on the Arts.
Read More »Newscast – Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Stories include: Groups sue to keep drilling ban in Arctic waters, and Alaska items in the budget bill currently being debated by U.S. House, and Cruise ship pollution monitoring in Southeast Alaska.
Read More »Newscast – Tuesday, May 2, 2017
In this newscast: The NTSB investigates a fatal Grant Aviation plane crash on the Alaska Peninsula, the Juneau Assembly considers relaxing local mining regulations and resurfaces AJ Mine debate, and Monday's early morning earthquakes knocked out power in parts of the Yukon Territory, but didn't cause damage in Whitehorse.
Read More »Newscast – Monday, May 1, 2017
In this newscast: Seismologists warn they've recorded 100 aftershocks since two major earthquakes rocked Southeast Alaska and Canada Monday morning. The Supreme Court refused to hear Alaska and oil and gas industry groups' appeal protesting a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to set 187,000 square miles in Alaska aside as critical habitat for threatened polar bears.
Read More »Newscast – Friday, April 28, 2017
In this newscast: Juneau ranks #8 in "micropolitan arts vibrant" communities; Trump signs order rolling back Obama administration restrictions on Arctic oil leases; U.S. military drills set to take to the skies over Alaska and May Day protests expected nationwide.
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Newscast – Thursday, April 27, 2017
In this newscast: The Legislature defies Gov. Bill Walker's request for confirmation of his cabinet and board appointees, Juneau Schools are promised full local funding, the Juneau Assembly spares the Juneau-Douglas City Museum from the budget chopping block, and Ishmael Hope reads part of his new book of poetry, "Rock Piles Along the Eddy."
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