Adelyn Baxter

In this newscast: Southeast Alaska is exempt from the statewide controlled burn ban, a state court magistrate judge retires to pursue a Ph.D. in Indigenous Studies, the timber and fishing industries try to figure out how to safely transport workers to Alaska amid the pandemic, the state’s geoduck fishery reopens after being closed for most of the year and villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are on flood watch. 

In this newscast: Alaska’s U.S. senators are disappointed by a ruling that blocks CARES Act funding to Alaska Native corporations, tracking community spread is critical to Alaska’s COVID-19 response, just as testing for the disease is critical to reopening the economy, part of the road into Denali National Park and Preserve reopens to public access and children in Homer can still listen to story time thanks to public radio. 

In this newscast: The Juneau International Airport may have given up millions in federals relief funding, recognizing scams and frauds circulated by those looking to make money off of the pandemic, Pelican and Tenakee Springs will see ferry service again after all and the Girl Scouts of Alaska expect to receive a federal loan to help makeup lost cookie sales.