Newscast – Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025

In this newscast:

  • Election officials rejected more than 1,300 absentee ballots in the November 2024 general elections,
  • The 2025 Kuskokwim 300 has been pushed back two weeks because of poor snowfall and above-freezing temperatures,
  • The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center raised over $30,000 in just two days to rebuild an animal shelter after it was destroyed by high winds last Monday,
  • Fifty people experiencing homelessness died on the streets of Anchorage last year,
  • Bethel’s tribal government recently had the rare opportunity to repatriate the remains of four Yup’ik ancestors taken from the area more than a century ago

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