Pablo Arauz Peña, KTOO

In this newscast:

• Among Governor Mike Dunleavy’s recent budget vetoes was $400,000 dollars for the Alaska Legal Services Corporation which is an organization devoted solely to providing free legal aid to low-income Alaskans.
• When the COVID-19 pandemic cut her last gallery show short in 2020, a Juneau illustrator and ceramics artist turned to social media to exhibit her work.
• Alaska’s health department says COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in nearly all regions of the state, driven almost entirely by the more deadly and infectious delta variant.

In this newscast:

• Kensington Mine, about 45 miles northwest of Juneau, is running out of room to store its tailings.
• For the first time ever, the largest cruise ship to visit Alaska has made its way to Ketchikan.
• Parts of Interior and Southcentral Alaska will see poor air quality as a result of wildfires in Canada this week.
• A divided federal appeals court panel has struck down several campaign contribution caps in Alaska.

In this newscast:

• Researchers have identified the killer whale that beached itself on Prince of Wales Island Thursday and later freed itself.
• At an emergency meeting on Thursday, the Sitka Assembly voted 6-0 to require masks in public spaces, in an attempt to curb the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in the community since the beginning of the pandemic.
• Alaska’s state government has joined with other Republican-led states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In this newscast:

• The Southeast Alaska State Fair will go on as planned this coming weekend, but fair organizers are taking steps to ensure the safest gathering possible even as COVID-19 cases spike across Southeast Alaska.
• Former Juneau resident Heather Barr is keeping an eye on Afghanistan. She’s living in Pakistan now working for Human Rights Watch.
• A lone killer whale that was reported to have beached itself on Prince of Wales Island Thursday has freed itself, according to federal biologists.

In this newscast:

• In Juneau, there were more new cases of COVID-19 identified in the two weeks that ended on Sunday than any other two weeks since testing and tracking began.
• Juneau coach and teacher Kevin Hamrick recently retired from the Juneau School District after putting in almost 30 years as an educator.
• The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a Metlakatla fisherman who was fined for fishing without the proper permits.
• A state lawyer outed as having posted racist and antisemitic comments on Twitter no longer works for the Alaska Department of Law.

In this newscast:

• A dozen women have accused former Juneau-area chiropractor Jeffrey Fultz of sexually abusing them under the guise of treating them for medical problems.
• A two-year project aimed at honoring Alaska’s veterans in Hoonah is finally complete.
• Troopers say the two adult occupants of a plane that crashed in the Chugach Mountains north of Anchorage on Monday are dead.