Pablo Arauz Peña, KTOO

In this newscast: City workers have been collecting samples of Juneau’s sewage to test for the coronavirus; After a summer without cruise ships, many people in Southeast Alaska are desperate to see tourists return. But not everyone; Gov. Mike Dunleavy debuted a budget proposal for next year that will lean heavily on earnings from the Permanent Fund to help Alaska recover from the pandemic; The U.S. Coast Guard’s second-highest ranking officer has assumed some of the blame for Russian military intimidation of Bering Sea commercial fishermen last summer.

In this newscast: The wrongful death lawsuit against the Juneau police officer who fatally shot 34-year-old Kelly Stephens last year is over; The updated concept for a new arts facility in Juneau would expend Centennial Hall and could help boost the city’s economic recovery; Canadian developers behind a proposed massive metals mine 20 miles from the border seek another permit extension from B.C. regulators; More Alaska Natives have died of COVID-19 in the state than whites even though they make up 16% of the state’s population.

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly on Monday will consider declaring a local disaster due to damage from last week’s record rainstorm; For more than a year, Juneau teens in need of temporary shelter had nowhere to go; There were rumors going around Juneau yesterday that Donald Trump Jr. was in town for a hunting trip; Juneau officials expect to get almost 1,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine as early as next week.

In this newscast: The Juneau School District is getting ready for students to return to in-person classes in January; Public health data shows COVID-19 case counts appear to be trending down in Juneau once again; The first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine could be here as soon as next week; Heavy equipment operators have been clearing mudslides off roads in Haines over the past week.