Stories include a red king crab commercial season called off for Southeast Alaska this year, $3 million in housing grants awarded to Southeast Alaska Native organizations, and Sealaska Corporation endorsing incumbent Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott for reelection.
Matt Miller
Morning Host & Local News Reporter
I’m up early every weekday morning pulling together all the news and information you need to start your day. I find the stories unique to Juneau or Southeast Alaska that may linger or become food-for-thought at the end of your day. What information do you need from me to give your day some context?
Newscast – Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Stories include picketing Alaska Airlines workers at the Juneau International Airport, State of Alaska reaches a non binding gas sales agreement with ExxonMobil for the Alaska LNG project, and a judge issues a restraining order stopping the state from removing campaign signs outside the state’s right of way.
Newscast – Friday, September 7, 2018
Stories include a tentative agreement on an annex to the Pacific Salmon Treaty and a suspicious fire on Slim Williams Way.
Headstones, fences damaged at Douglas cemetery
A still-unidentified driver drove a silver Jeep through the Eagles Cemetery on Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, damaging headstones and fences and uprooting a 50-year-old lilac bush.
Newscast – Thursday, September 6, 2018
Stories include the arrest of a hatchet-swinging shoplifter, a vehicle driven through the Eagles Cemetery in Douglas, and Richard Yamada appointed to IPHC.
Newscast – Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Stories include proposed downsizing of TAPS workforce, former U.S. Senator Mark Begich staying in the governor’s race, and a possible record-setting catch of hatchery chums at Crawfish Inlet south of Sitka last week.