Newscasts

In this newscast: Juneau may be getting a ‘new’ City Hall after all – but this time voters won’t get to decide on whether to approve it; The union that represents support staff at the Juneau School District is suing the district over its afterschool child care program; Last year, the Klondike Road Relay got off to a late start when a tour bus crash delayed the race, forcing participants to skip the first few legs. This year, the event celebrated its biggest gathering, despite broken infrastructure and ongoing political tension; Sea shanties have been around for centuries. But in recent years, they’ve made a pop culture comeback. You can hear them all over TikTok or in the video game Assassin’s Creed 4. But one man has been getting generations of people in Ketchikan to sing shanty songs for over 30 years. 

In this newscast: University of Alaska Fairbanks administrators told the Board of Regents last week that they think UAF is set to become a top-tier research institution in 2030; The man who died on Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier last week has been identified as a planetary  geologist from the University of Padua in Italy; Red king crab fisherman in Southeast Alaska are getting the first competitive commercial fishery since 2017; A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued a hunter after he broke his leg on a hunting trip northwest of Sitka on Friday; This month’s Economic Trends Magazine reported that it’s getting harder for Alaskans to afford a place to live.

In this newscast: A Sitka Grand Jury indicted a Juneau man Thursday for allegedly assaulting two men at a demonstration in downtown Sitka; Fairbanks police evacuated one of the city’s Fred Meyer locations on Saturday evening, after a deactivated mortar shell was left in the grocery store’s bathroom; The University of Alaska Board of Regents introduced changes to the University’s antidiscrimination policy around hiring and recruitment on Friday; Alaska students’ test scores improved modestly last school year, according to results released Friday by the Department of Education and Early Development; One of Petersburg’s most popular trail systems on Mitkof Island recently got an upgrade with help from out-of-towners.

Sunday is the last day to register to vote or update your mailing address for Juneau’s 2025 municipal election
A pedestrian is dead after a car went over a guardrail in Ketchikan; The University of Alaska Fairbanks is searching for a permanent chancellor; Coeur Alaska’s Kensington Mine found more gold, extending the mine’s life five years;
Former Juneau chiropractor Jeffrey Fultz is not guilty on two counts of sexual assault, and a mistrial was declared for 12 other counts; Two Sitka community gardens have received grant funding to support food independence

In this newscast: The Alaska Marine Highway System ferry LeConte will continue to be out of service leading into the weekend; After eight days of deliberation, the jury in a sexual assault trial against a former Juneau chiropractor returned a verdict of not guilty on two counts, and hung jury on 12 others Thursday; Researchers continue to investigate a massive landslide and tsunami that hit a fjord popular among sightseeing cruises in Southeast Alaska last month. A veritable mountainside of rock crashed into the water at the end of Tracy Arm, near the terminus of South Sawyer Glacier, generating a tsunami wave that scoured the shoreline of vegetation in the surrounding area and even disrupted tides in Juneau, about 75 miles away; Alaska’s Department of Law is asking a judge to throw out much of a class action lawsuit over the state’s failure to process food assistance applications on time. Thousands of Alaskans are caught in backlogs that have plagued the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and other aid programs for years. But the state argues a recent Supreme Court case means they shouldn’t be allowed to sue.

In this newscast: A plan to bring more high-speed electric vehicle charging stations to Alaska is back on track; A man fell into a hole in the ice on the Mendenhall Glacier Tuesday; Ships could pose a risk to seabirds migrating through Alaska’s waters; Elementary reading scores in Petersburg are rising above state and national averages; The Arctic Research Consortium is shutting down after funding cuts