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Newscast – Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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2025/03/27

In this newscast: U.S. House Republicans put the top executives of NPR and PBS on the hot seat today, in a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency; Juneau's mayor selected 11 residents to serve on a short-term rental task force, which is meant to assess the benefits and downsides of short-term rentals in the housing market. All but one member are homeowners; An Alaska Airlines jet leaving Wrangell Sunday declared an inflight emergency and landed in Ketchikan; Tongass

Newscast – Tuesday, March 25, 2025

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2025/03/26

In this newscast: A Fairbanks Republican lawmaker wants to put the governor’s mansion on Airbnb; Alaska already imports most of its food. But for many tribes in rural areas, cuts to federal grants and staff by the Trump administration could make food security even tougher; A draft of the 20-year plan for Alaska’s state ferry system is open for public comment. Officials with the Alaska Department of Transportation are asking residents to weigh in on the plan that will guide the Alaska Marine Highway

Newscast – Monday, March 24, 2025

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2025/03/25

In this newscast: Friday marked the first-ever World Day for Glaciers, a day observed by the United Nations to sound the alarm on the accelerating pace of global melting. Scientists who study Alaska glaciers spoke about their research to uncover how these rapidly changing systems affect our world; Sydney Isaacs-Hulstine is a Craig-based Lingìt and Haida artist. Raised in Klawock, Isaacs-Hulstine is an associate producer for children’s TV show “Molly of Denali.” She recently wrote an episode for

Newscast – Friday, March 21, 2025

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2025/03/22

In this newscast: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday [March 21] abolishing the U.S. Department of Education. While many key programs remain unchanged, hundreds of millions of federal dollars are at stake in Alaska if the order disrupts funding; Juneau’s only landfill is filling up quickly – really quickly. If the town keeps up its current dumping pace, residents and businesses could run out of space for their trash within the next decade. A new study offers a few scenarios for

Newscast – Thursday, March 20, 2025

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2025/03/21

In this newscast: Fish processor Silver Bay Seafoods announced Tuesday it will take over all Alaskan facilities owned by competitor OBI Seafoods; Several federal employees in Juneau who were fired as part of President Trump's federal staffing purge have been reinstated; Federal investigators released initial findings from a plane crash near Nome; A Canadian ski race persists amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Canadian governments.

Newscast – Wednesday, March 19, 2025

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2025/03/20

In this newscast: Ketchikan's school district superintendent is resigning at the end of the school year; People with disabilities, care providers and advocates marched to the state Capitol Wednesday to improve access to services; The remains of two French bulldogs that went missing on Prince of Wales Island over a month ago were found in a pair of crab pots last week; The University of Alaska Fairbanks as shuttered the office and taken down the website for an on-campus center that supported cultural

Newscast – Tuesday, March 18, 2025

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2025/03/19

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly may mandate a timeline for the release of body-worn camera footage when a police officer shoots someone; The Alaska House Resources Committee met on Friday to hear testimony on a resolution recognizing the longstanding partnership between Canada and the United States; Sen. Lisa Murkowski says President Trump is testing the limits of his power.

Newscast – Monday, March 17, 2025

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2025/03/18

In this newscast: Juneau resident and author X̱’unei Lance Twitchell won an Emmy for "Not a Mascot" — an episode he wrote for TV show "Molly of Denali;" Sitka's planned internet outage lasted for less time than predicted; researchers and Sealaska shareholders are calling for change to long time limits placed on Alaska's commercial fisheries; Alaska's state development agency says it's talking with the operator of the Ketchikan Shipyard to resolve a dispute that threatens the future of the key local

Newscast – Friday, March 14, 2025

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2025/03/15

In this newscast: Alaska's state ombudsman is resigning in April. Kate Burkhart leaves after eight years on the job and countless investigations that have led to major systemic reforms in the state; The Juneau School District approved a budget for the next fiscal year on Thursday; People rallied again outside the Alaska State Capitol today, this time to protest the Trump Administration's plans to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs at the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs; After a German Shepherd

Newscast – Thursday, March 13, 2025

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2025/03/14

In this newscast: The Juneau School District Board of Education is expected to pass a budget at a special meeting tonight. The board made last minute changes at its Tuesday meeting and now needs to rebalance the proposed budget

Newscast – Wednesday, March 12, 2025

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2025/03/13

In this newscast: The Alaska House narrowly approved a bill today that would substantially increase state funding for public schools on a long-term basis for the first time in nearly a decade; Dozens of Juneau residents protested as Congress considers drastic funding cuts to Medicaid; President Trump issued two executive orders on March 1 to expand logging in national forests. That's after he suspended the Roadless Road, which banned new road construction in national forests. Together, these orders

Newscast – Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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2025/03/12

In this newscast: Alaska House lawmakers made a few changes to a high-priority education bill during a marathon floor session on Monday; No one was hurt in a fire at the Dzantik'i Heeni campus in Juneau earlier today, but evacuated students huddled outside for hours; The state Department of Transportation is resurrecting the controversial idea to build a road between Juneau and the communities of Haines and Skagway; Congress is considering huge cuts to Medicaid and Alaska health care experts say

Newscast – Monday, March 10, 2025

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2025/03/11

In this newscast: The ACLU of Alaska is suing the Alaska Department of Corrections for its role in the 2023 death of Lewis Jordan Junior on behalf of Jordan's family; The University of Alaska Southeast is taking next steps to remove mentions of DEI from its website; Alaska's National Weather Service offices have not been spared from the Trump administration's efforts to slash the federal workforce; Members of Juneau's LGBTQ+ community, and the people who support them, gathered in droves on Sunday to

Newscast – Friday, March 7, 2025

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2025/03/08

In this newscast: The Juneau School District Board of Education appears to maintain its concerns about state funding as it moves through the budget process for the next fiscal year; Juneau residents join protesters nationwide in response to President Trumps scientific research funding cuts and firings at federal science institutions; Anglers will be able to fish for king salmon near Petersburg this summer after a recent decision from the Alaska Board of Fisheries; There's a 50-50 change the Alaska

Newscast – Thursday, March 6, 2025

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2025/03/07

In this newscast: Homes in Juneau's Mendenhall Valley are seeing a decline in their assessed value following last August's glacial outburst flood; Juneau's trail maintenance nonprofit, Trail Mix, wants to hire fired Forest Service employees if — it can raise enough money to pay them; Three heli-skiers who died in an avalanche Tuesday near Girdwood had ties to Minnesota; Research in marine species show they may be fixtures in the Arctic, to the interest of scientists. It may also mean changes to

Newscast – Wednesday, March 5, 2025

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2025/03/06

In this newscast: State lawmakers unveiled a revised education funding ahead of a floor debate in the House tentatively scheduled for Monday; The City of Juneau is doing site assessments at homes to prepare for flood barrier installations; Untried defendents - people accused of crimes but presumed innocent until found otherwise by the court - remain in jail as criminal cases take a long time to go to trial; GCI users in Sitka will lose internet service starting Friday for up to ten days.

Newscast – Tuesday, March 4, 2025

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2025/03/05

In this newscast: President Donald Trump’s long-promised tariffs on goods imported from China, Canada and Mexico took effect this morning. It marks the start of a trade war that has many Alaskans bracing for higher prices. Despite the growing tensions between the countries, local leaders in Juneau say they are committed to maintaining a close relationship with the Canadian City of Whitehorse; Juneau’s trail maintenance nonprofit won’t be maintaining Forest Service trails this season, unless it can

Newscast – Monday, March 3, 2025

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2025/03/04

In this newscast: Temporary cell service and internet connection has most Juneau residents back online after a damaged subsea cable caused a region-wide outage late last week; Former Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola and her former chief of staff are now working for Holland and Hart, a law and lobbying firm; Protestors took to the streets of Gustavus on Saturday, joining hundreds of demonstrations around the country in response to staffing cuts at national parks; A hydroelectric project in the

Newscast – Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025

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2025/02/28

In this newscast: Mining leaders had an optimistic outlook at the third annual Juneau Mining Forum this week; A plan to move Juneau's city employees into the building that houses the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation downtown is inching toward reality; A state-run trust that owns much of the land surrounding a controversial mining project outside Haines has formally decided against purchasing federal mining claims in the area; Snow is melting early across large swaths of Alaska this year, which

Newscast – Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025

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2025/02/27

In this newscast: Influenza cases in Alaska are spiking, according to data from the state's division of public health; The Juneau police officer who shot and killed a resident wielding a hatchet last year will not face criminal charges; In less than two months the Juneau Assembly is expected to vote on a proposal that would allow the construction of a fifth cruise ship dock downtown to move forward; The University of Alaska is grappling with how to respond to broad executive orders from the Trump

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