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In this newscast:
Passengers stranded with cars aboard the Matanuska were told to be off by the end of Friday,
Ketchikan considers allowing tour operators to share traditionally locals-only spaces,
the state agrees to pay the family of a man who died while being held at Lemon Creek Correctional Center in 2015,
and Alaska State Troopers recover the bodies of five people killed in a small plane crash in Southwest Alaska.
In 16 years with the Alaska Marine Highway, Matanuska substitute Capt. Gabriel Baylous has dealt with his fair share of mechanical problems, but there was always another ferry to pick up the slack. Not this time.
Chinese tourism to Alaska has grown more than 70% since 2013, according to Alaska Travel Industry Association data.
In this newscast: Juneau city officials meet with Gov. Mike Dunleavy privately to discuss local priorities, more than two dozen Matanuska passengers remain stranded in Juneau awaiting repairs for the ferry, the Governor speaks to business leaders in Juneau about his hopes for the future and state transportation officials organize a caravan to allow stranded Skagway residents to return home.
The meeting to discuss local issues and priorities with Gov. Mike Dunleavy was originally advertised as a public Juneau Assembly meeting, but city officials changed their minds.
In this newscast: An Anchorage judge halts the campaign to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy once again, the Juneau police officer who shot and killed a man last month is back at work after being on leave, oral arguments began this week in the lawsuit over Sitka Sound’s herring fishery, Gov. Mike Dunleavy plans a trip to Wrangell and a plane evacuating Americans from Wuhan, China stops briefly in Anchorage.
