In this newscast: Alaska Supreme Court reaffirms tribal sovereignty in legal dispute between Juneau tribal governments Governor appoints a new revenue commissioner Police say no foul play suspected after 44-year-old Juneau man found dead in Mendenhall Valley There’s a third GOP contender for Lieutenant Governor
Newscasts
Newscast – Thursday, September 7, 2017
KTOO’s midday newscast for Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. In this newscast:
Five girls, ages 3 to 12, died in a mobile home fire in the Butte, near Palmer;
Sheldon Fisher is announced as the new state Department of Revenue commissioner;
a Fairbanks coal plant is expected to be operational next year; and
North Korea’s nuclear bomb test on Saturday was detected in Alaska.
Newscast – Wednesday, September 6, 2017
In this newscast: Tribal environmental conference is now underway in Wrangell, Arctic Council working group is currently meeting in Bethel, Another slide hits a cruise ship dock in Skagway, and Alaska files friend of the court brief in Wisconsin redistricting case.
Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017
In this newscast: The latest standardized test scores show Alaska students aren’t doing well, the state of Alaska and ExxonMobil continue fighting over the massive Point Thomson natural gas field on the North Slope, Forest Service researchers find out they had misidentified a benign native fungus for an invasive spruce bud blight in Southeast Alaska, a Labor Day landslide shuts down a major road artery in Sitka, and Fairbanks records its first freezing temperatures of the fall.
Newscast – Friday, September 1, 2017
In this newscast: Gov. Bill Walker to recall legislature for fourth special session Alaska Department of Transportation has a new regional chief More Alaska-based U.S. Army soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan
Newscast – Thursday, August 31, 2017
KTOO’s midday newscast for Thursday, Aug. 31, 2018 In this newscast:
Alaska is exploring options for conducting elections after 2018;
Gov. Bill Walker signed a bipartisan letter urging Congress to stabilize individual health insurance markets;
Alaska’s state and local governments could save roughly $200 million a year if the state formed a health care authority; and
The U.S. Interior Department inspector general dropped its inquiry into whether the Interior secretary threatened to retaliate against Sen. Lisa Murkowski.