Pablo Arauz Peña, KTOO

In this newscast: A pickup truck exploded in downtown Juneau Monday night, but police do not believe the fire was suspicious or a crime; Voters re-elected Ketchikan’s Rep. Dan Ortiz by a wide margin, returning the independent for another two years representing House District 36; The Petersburg pool, which closed down after a fire, could reopen with some temporary fixes.

In this newscast: SEARHC is no longer offering free COVID-19 testing for people who don’t have symptoms of the virus in Juneau; Hoonah has its first confirmed cases of COVID-19; Juneau’s electric utility has had an unusual run of outages and blips this month, affecting a lot of its customers; Exploration is resuming for copper, gold and other metals on lower Prince of Wales Island.

In this newscast: Six students at The University of Alaska Southeast are in isolation on campus after testing positive for COVID-19; There will be no jury trials in Alaska’s courthouses until at least Jan. 4; Former Sitka School Board president Lon Garrison has been named executive director of the Association of Alaska School Boards; As coronavirus cases continue to skyrocket in the state, cracks are appearing in Alaska’s fragile healthcare system.

The university is asking everyone who may have been exposed or have even mild symptoms to report them immediately so they can test those individuals and find close contacts.

In this newscast: The Juneau School District has shifted gears on its decision to expand in-person classes; Juneau households that receive the city’s pandemic relief housing and utility grants this year may get $1,000 more than was initially offered; Two local government bodies will now recognize Ketchikan’s original inhabitants before each public meeting; A new video game set in Southeast Alaska seeks to turn back the tide on the history of inaccurate representations of indigenous communities.