Newscasts

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly affirms its commitment to climate action, the Canadian company buying the parent company of Juneau’s local utility responds to local investors interest in buying off the subsidiary, and police investigate a human body found in a hot tub. 

In this newscast: Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott make their re-election bid official, the University of Alaska Southeast and Juneau Docks and Harbors ink a deal to share a former NOAA lab in Auke Bay, a 17-year-old at Juneau’s youth detention center beats an employee over the head with a chair, federal labor officials sue the state ferry system over alleged Family and Medical Leave Act violations, protesters rally again a revived Pebble Mine effort, and the National Weather Service issues a special weather statement announcing heavy rain across Juneau and much of Southeast Alaska. 

In this newscast: Residents of downtown Juneau tent encampment face eviction Togiak child accidentally fatally shoots another child Capital City Fire/Rescue to offer rides on new airport truck during open house  

Police are looking for a 28-year-old Juneau woman, Alexis Ashley Ehlers, who vanished on Aug. 13;
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is criticizing President Trump for his comments following the neo-Nazi march on Charlottesville; 
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says hundreds of Pacific walruses have begun coming ashore along Alaska’s northwest coast; and
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking the Department of Justice to maintain a hands-off approach to marijuana enforcement. 

In this newscast: Peter Pan Seafoods processing plant in Port Moller devastated by fire, Zachary Whisenhunt of Fairbanks convicted of murder in the death of Janessa Kempski, Ferry Tustamena back in service, and Haines Borough Assembly recall election is unsuccessful.

In this newscast: The filing deadline closes for Juneau Assembly candidates and all three incumbents will be challenged, Alaska’s U.S. senators get an online earful after expressing disgust at the hate and racism out of Charlottesville, Ketchikan beaches get flagged for high levels of wastewater and sewage pathogen, and a tent camper in Sitka gets a rude awakening from a bear.