Newscasts

In this newscast: Juneau residents and businesses can now submit proposals for how the city should spend marine passenger fees for next year; The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for five missing mariners after their fishing boat capsized near Point Couverden; Juneau continues to see heavy rains this week, after getting nearly a foot and a half of snow last week. That’s left road travel slippery and treacherous across town; Advocates for limiting cruise visitation have submitted a fourth petition in less than two ears to get a cruise limit question before Sitka votes this winter; Tongass Voices: Ariel Estrada on the fast and furious nature of his one-man play

In this newscast: A seiner reportedly capsized in heavy weather near Hoonah early Sunday morning; Some new research is challenging the established scientific thinking about why an endangered population of killer whales in Puget Sound continues to be in jeopardy; Among the roughly 100 proposals on the Alaska Board of Fisheries agenda at its upcoming meeting are four focused on further restricting or closing the state-managed pollock trawl fishery on Prince William Sound; People living in Newtok have been fighting severe coastal erosion and deteriorating permafrost for more than three decades, and on Sunday, the Newtok Village Council sent workers to shut down all critical infrastructure in the tiny Bering Sea community

In this newscast: Ketchikan’s city manager is resigning; The bipartisan caucuses who will control the Alaska House and Senate have announced their committee chairs; Alaska’s commercial harvests plummeted this year: pounds harvested were the lowest on record; People can now view a livestream feed of Cook Inlet beluga whales swimming in the Kenai River

In this newscast: There has been a lot of speculation that Gov. Mike Dunleavy might leave his job for a role in the Trump administration. Now he says he’s staying; The Alaska Supreme Court will have a new chief justice early next year; In the remote Southeast Alaska village of Angoon, high school students are learning how to grow their own produce using hydroponic technology; Many Southeast Alaska residents rely on diesel heating oil like Toyostoves, to keep warm in the winter. But a new program will fund the switch to electric heat pumps; Tongass Voices: Moria Johnson-Sidney on the stabilizing force of carving a yaakw

In this newscast: Snowfall is expected across Southeast Alaska this week, starting tonight, and Juneau may be hit the hardest; The state and the Alaska Republican Party are gearing up for a recount of Ballot Measure 2, the initiative to repeal Alaska’s open primary and ranked choice voting; Dozens of bikers, figure skaters, and hockey players took to the ice at Juneau’s Mendenhall Lake this weekend, but venturing out onto a frozen lake can be extremely dangerous; A ferry attempting to moor in the remote Southeast Alaska village of Kake on Saturday as forced to return to Juneau after a cable that secures it to the dock broke; Interior Alaska is losing its last local television newscast 

In this newscast: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s (ADF&G) preliminary 2024 Commercial Harvest and Exvessel Values report is here. The initial set of data shines a light on declining commercial salmon harvests in Alaska; It’s been a year since last year’s fatal landslide in Wrangell killed six residents. KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki spoke with a couple of Wrangellites affected by the slide to see how they’ve coped and what their future plans are; Hundreds of Anchorage residents are flocking to what has become the event of the season. It’s a massive dead fin whale that washed up on the mudflats near downtown last weekend. As onlookers pose for photos and witness the sights and smells the whale brings, researchers are hoping to learn a bit more about how the whale lived, and how it died