Clarise Larson

In this newscast: Governor Mike Dunleavy and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski toured the Juneau neighborhoods that experienced record-breaking flooding earlier this week. Now, residents are beginning to recover and assess the damage, and city and state officials are working together to figure out next steps; The U.S. Interior Department says it reviewed over a million pages of federal records to produce a two-volume report on Native boarding schools. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland released the second volume last month. The report also makes recommendations –that include apologies to communities for forcibly taking children from their homes to assimilate them — as well as programs that offer healing through language and culture; Southeast Alaska has almost a full week of sunshine ahead, but those blue skies will be slightly dingy with smoke from wildfires in Canada.

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly has selected Emily Wright to serve as the City and Borough of Juneau’s new city attorney; Glacial outburst flooding in Juneau broke records for the second year in a row. The Mendenhall River crested at nearly 16 feet in the early morning hours on Tuesday; A homer man is making alcohol from locally grown ingredients.

In this newscast: Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed five bills today [THU] that lawmakers passed after midnight on the last day of the legislative session. Dunleavy says the bills, which passed on what was technically the 122nd day of the session, violated the Alaska Constitution’s limit on the length of the legislative session; There are currently 11 candidates running to unseat Alaska Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola this November. One candidate though has some… let’s say, extra hurdles; Glacial outburst flooding in Mendenhall Lake and River is underway. The latest forecast predicts a crest of more than 15 feet sometime after midnight Monday. That would surpass last year’s record-breaking flood. 

In this newscast: A pair of state House lawmakers are calling on their colleagues to reconvene to restore millions in education funding erased by Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s line-item vetoes; A geologist who has studied Southeast Alaska’s rocks and minerals for decades is creating a new geologic map of the region.