Newscasts

In this newscast:

• A second Juneau school board member is not running for reelection.
• Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital leadership discusses the financial impacts on cuts to Medicaid funding.
• Law enforcement officers arrested Juneau residents this week for their roles in an alleged drug distribution ring.
• State Sen. Shelley Hughes, a Palmer Republican, says she’s running for governor.
• Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced today that Department of Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum plans to resign early next month.
• Petersburg teenagers learned outdoor skills on a weeklong kayak trip.

In this newscast:

• Satellite internet provider Starlink experienced a major “network outage” on Thursday that lasted about two and a half hours.
• Longtime Juneau School District board member and board president Deedie Sorensen says she is no longer planning to run for reelection. She’s been known as a longstanding advocate and voice for teachers during her six-year tenure.
• Drag queens in Alaska typically find their stages in Anchorage or Fairbanks. But last week, three Alaska queens traveled to the bush to perform in Bethel’s first-ever drag show.
• Alaska’s former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola is suing the owners of the aircraft that her late husband Eugene “Buzzy” Peltola Jr. was piloting at the time of his death.

In this newscast:

• A 35-year-old woman has died after the vessel she was on capsized near Sitka on Sunday.
• Nearly all the staff of Juneau’s only print newspaper left the publication for a new, web-based local news outlet.
• Haines is Alaska’s oldest borough – and a recent survey of residents under 40 years old provides a clearer picture of why. Respondents outlined a long list of factors that make it increasingly difficult for younger people to live in the small Southeast  community, ranging from scant housing and childcare options – to polarized local politics.
• The Alaska Department of Health says it’s still assessing how President Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will affect the state’s Medicaid program. State officials say they do not have reliable estimates of how many Alaskans could lose coverage or how much the new law will reduce federal health care spending.

In this newscast:

• The City and Borough of Juneau is inviting developers, nonprofit and tribal governments to apply for grants or loans from its affordable housing fund.
• Two black bear cubs were electrocuted to death after climbing a utility pole in downtown Juneau Monday night.
• The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development is appealing a federal decision that could cost the state $80 million.
• A coalition of schools and advocacy groups, including several Alaska school districts, is suing the Trump administration over its decision to withhold about $6.8 billion in federal education funds approved by Congress.
• The state’s only med school program started this week with its biggest cohort.

In this newscast:

• Tomorrow marks one month since Juneau resident Benjamin or “Benny” Stepetin was last seen in the capital city.
• For years, the state has struggled to keep up with Alaskans who apply for government benefits intended to help people facing disabilities and poverty. Despite efforts to address the problem, thousands of Alaskans are still caught in backlogs.
• It’s been three weeks since the Alaska Department of Fish and Game seized dozens of animals from a wildlife facility outside Haines. But a number were left behind.
• An IT outage that grounded all Alaska Airlines flights Sunday night led to cancellations today at the Anchorage and Fairbanks international airports.

In this newscast:

• The Environmental Protection Agency is sticking with its veto of the proposed Pebble Mine project in southwest Alaska. Northern Dynasty, the parent company behind the Pebble project, is still suing to get the veto overturned.
• The late civil rights activist John Lewis didn’t have Juneau ties, but Juneau residents marked the anniversary of his death Thursday with a protest of the Trump Administration’s cuts to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy and what they see as an attack on civil rights.
• The U.S. House passed a rescission bill Thursday to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, sending the bill to the president to sign into law. 
• The U.S. Department of Interior announced Wednesday that it finalized the transfer of nearly 28,000 acres of federal land in the Northwest Arctic to NANA Regional Corporation. The land is on the western end of the Ambler Road corridor – a proposed 200-mile road branching from the Dalton Highway to connect to a mining region south of the Brooks Range.