KTOO News Department

In this newscast:

• Lawmakers are setting aside until next year a bill that would kick off a pilot program for tribally-run public schools,
• The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska can now receive reimbursements for providing child welfare services directly from the federal government,
• Alaska officials who help resettle immigrants say they’re facing a lot of uncertainty amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on legal and illegal immigration,
• Alaska would be in the same time zone as Seattle for four months of the year, if a bill passed Monday by the Alaska Senate becomes law, the Alaska Beacon reports,
• The Trump administration has started cancelling grants to tribal libraries in communities across the state, which could be debilitating for Klukwan’s library

In this newscast:

• Juneau was one of nine communities selected for an annual grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a health philanthropy group,
• Flood inundation maps that model how Juneau’s Mendenhall River levee should perform have finally arrived,
• Initial results from a study of humpback whale health in Juneau found that the area is particularly important for females and their calves, and the findings could drive the city to consider restricting the growth of the whale watching industry,
• A Washington state-based conservation group is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service over king salmon, again

In this newscast:

• The Juneau Assembly is considering a resolution in support of keeping the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area federally owned,
• The executive director of the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council will resign following the board’s decision to cut diversity, equity and inclusion language from its website,
• An ordinance mandating that the Juneau Police Department release body-worn camera footage no more than 30 days after a city police officer shoots someone will be open for public testimony later this month,
• Libraries in Alaska may no longer be able to request books from out of state, or mail books and other media to Alaskans who don’t live near a library,
• A program that monitors toxic poisoning in subsistence marine harvests in the Aleutians has halted, pending a federal review

In this newscast:

• Lieutenant governor and former U.S. House candidate Nancy Dahlstrom is running for governor,
• The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska announced today that it is rejoining the Alaska Federation of Natives,
• The Juneau Assembly chose a preliminary redevelopment plan for the downtown Telephone Hill neighborhood that, if approved, would evict residents by October,
• A Juneau-based author’s graphic memoir won the Pulitzer Prize yesterday for autobiography and memoir,
• The Trump administration has started canceling federal grants that fund arts and culture programs across the country, including here in Juneau,
• Yesterday was Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and in Juneau, at MMIP events like last night’s, one name comes up consistently: Tracy Day

In this newscast:

• Alaska’s oldest ferry is too expensive to fix,
• Tlingit and Haida announced that its annual food distributions of herring eggs have been canceled because the federal funding they planned to use for it was canceled,
• A lawsuit over Juneau’s Mendenhall River levee will now focus on how the cost of the flood protection project will be divided,
• A controversial mining exploration project near Haines has been in limbo since its biggest investor backed out late last year, and now the project’s parent company wants to step back, too

In this newscast:

• A proposal that would create and fund tribally run public schools in Alaska inched closer to reality on Thursday,
• Hundreds in Juneau joined thousands nationwide yesterday as protests surged for International Workers Day, also known as May Day,
• Child advocacy centers in Alaska were funded with federal money for the past decade, but now the state has to foot the bill, and lawmakers are still deciding,
• The City and Borough of Juneau will hold its annual How to Run for Local Office workshop Saturday at City Hall, as there are six local seats up for grabs in October’s municipal election,
• A new Alaska law requires all businesses that sell alcohol to post a warning that drinking alcohol can cause breast and colon cancers