Pablo Arauz Peña, KTOO

In this newscast: The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska held its 85th Tribal Assembly yesterday. For the first time it was held virtually and it was a condensed version of the usual three-day event; Summer is typically the money-making season for many Alaska businesses, as tourists flock to the state. But this summer, the COVID-19 pandemic made that a lot harder; Petersburg has seen an unusual amount of black bears in town this year. Biologists think the bears natural food sources have been hard to come by; Lawmakers from Southeast are adding their voices to requests for a disaster declaration for the 2020 commercial salmon fishing season.

In this newscast: Juneau officials are poised to approve millions of dollars in pandemic relief tonight; A tribe in Southeast Alaska has won permanent protection for the site of a historic Tlingit village whose descendants claim centuries-old ties to Glacier Bay; It’s been a hard season for small fishermen in many parts of Alaska because of economic losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this newscast: Proposition 2 in Juneau’s municipal election asks voters to authorize up to $15 million in new public debt to pay for repairs and improvements to city infrastructure; Sitka’s urban Native corporation has a new look — and a new outlook following annual board elections in September; An annual market event held for the past 37 years in Alaska’s capital city has been canceled because of the coronavirus; Owners of sled dogs in Alaska’s Yukon River region have had difficulty feeding the animals since the state halted subsistence fishing because of weak salmon runs.

In this newscast: Seven candidates for three Assembly seats in Juneau’s municipal elections sound off on why they’re running; Alaska residents are enrolling in DenaliCare at unprecedented levels; Officials in Yakutat are asking those who visited local businesses in the last two weeks to get tested for the coronavirus; Officials at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska say a grizzly bear that was believed to have gotten into buildings and food storages over the last year has been euthanized; U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell says she’ll support a bill to block a permit for the proposed Pebble Mine in southwest Alaska.

In this newscast: The Department of Corrections says it’s found ways to offer limited programming for inmates but advocates say it’s not enough; President Donald Trump has announced he’ll issue a permit soon that will allow a Canadian-based company to build a proposed 16-hundred-mile rail line from Alberta to Alaska across the international border; Southeast Alaska had its first big fall storm of the year; The amount of donations to a fight over an Alaska oil tax ballot initiative has exceeded $17 million; A federal appeals court panel has ruled Alaska Native corporations are not eligible to receive a share of the $8 billion in federal coronavirus relief funding set aside for tribes.

In this newscast: It’s been four months since Alaska communities started receiving money from the state’s share of federal COVID-19 relief but one in four communities haven’t claimed the money yet; Alaskans living in the tiny village of Hyder are chafing against Canada’s border rules that restrict travel to much of the outside world; Race officials say the 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is still on. 61 mushers have already signed up for the 1,000 mile competition.