Pablo Arauz Peña, KTOO

In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau says it’s not going to change its testing strategy to match new guidelines published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Indigenous leaders are creating mockups of Vogue covers to share on social media to raise awareness for policy changes to the Roadless Rule in the Tongass National Forest; A local COVID-19 testing program aims to identify and isolate any positive cases for residents and seasonal workers in Petersburg. 

In this newscast: Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson has resigned after a series of texts with a younger state worker became public; The Juneau Assembly passed an ordinance last night creating a systemic racism review committee; Efforts to relocate Juneau’s shelter for homeless residents has seen pushback from other residents; The Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska received a $150,000 investment from the federal government this week; The group tasked by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to plot the course of Alaska’s ferry system is holding two rounds of public comments on the future of the fleet.

In this newscast: School starts today in Juneau and classes will remain virtual for the time being; There was another glacial dam release that dumped a lot of water into Mendenhall Lake and Mendenhall River over the weekend; Tlingit master carver Tommy Joseph’s latest project is a reproduction of the Waasgo Pole for the Sitka National Historic Park; Environmental groups have wasted no time challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to allow oil and gas drilling in an Alaska refuge.

In this newscast: Alaska tribal governments and organizations are asking the State of Alaska to withdraw a lawsuit filed recently in federal court, calling it “disgraceful” and “racist”; Alaska’s Ballot Measure 1, which seeks to increase the production tax on Alaska’s 3 biggest oil fields is shaping up to be a big fight; Postmaster General Louis Dejoy says he’s considering cutting Alaska’s bypass mail program to save money; There are conflicting accounts over how many people were exposed to COVID-19 at the Juneau airport in early August.

In this newscast: As Juneau’s number of positive COVID-19 cases trends upward, new policies are taking effect to control the spread; A Ketchikan mayor has vetoed a resolution asking the state legislature to expand sexual and gender identity protection; A Haines man was awarded a prize in the town’s Fourth of July parade when he donned a Donald Trump mask and drove a car that was cut in half; City and state transportation officials signed a deal recently that’s a step toward a long-standing goal to build a second road crossing to Douglas Island; A key federal permitting decision on a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region could still be weeks away.