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.
A multiple choice exam.
A multiple choice exam. (Creative Commons photo by Alberto G. )

Jeremy Hsieh

Local News Reporter, KTOO

I dig into questions about the forces and institutions that shape Juneau, big and small, delightful and outrageous. What stirs you up about how Juneau is built and how the city works?

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