Adelyn Baxter

In this newscast: Colleagues and family members remember late state Sen. Chris Birch, Permanent Fund Dividend checks could be delayed depending on whether Gov. Mike Dunleavy decides to veto a bill providing for a $1,600 PFD, a diver died in Glacier Bay National Park Wednesday, Southeast Alaska’s drought continued with above average temperatures in July, and Yakutat hosts what may be the first surf camp of its kind in Alaska. 

In this newscast: What did ferry workers get from this summer’s strike? Also, a Juneau-based fisheries scientist received the highest honor given to early-career scientists and engineers by the U.S. government and environmental groups have filed a new lawsuit to block road construction in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. 

In this newscast: The second special legislative session ended quietly Tuesday, a Maine man pleads not guilty to sexual assault and murder of a woman at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1993, the Department of Fish & Game closes commercial salmon trolling in much of Southeast Alaska for eight days, Petersburg ferry workers remain concerned about state cuts to ferry service even as the strike ends, tourists stranded in Kodiak by the ferry strike found a way to stay busy and tribal protesters commemorate the anniversary of 2014’s Mount Polley mine disaster by advocating for stronger oversight of transboundary mining.