Newscasts

In this newscast: Fire investigators look into an explosion reported in a hospital bathroom, results from Tuesday’s municipal elections, and the Coast Guard spots a stray kayak in Gastineau Channel and wants help finding its owner.  

In this newscast: It’s election day in Juneau, Alaskans are identified among the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, and a small fire at Thunder Mountain High School disrupts morning classes. 

In this newscast: A former Juneau resident who now lives in Las Vegas gives his take on the mass shooting, jury selection is underway in the Christopher Strawn murder retrial, Anchorage Rep. Chris Birch requests this month special session be held in Anchorage instead of Juneau, and new public art is installed on Juneau’s downtown waterfront.

In this newscast: Walker administration rejects teens’ climate change petition Police: 31-year-old Juneau woman caught trying to smuggle contraband into prison Invasive species hitchhiked to Alaska on 2011 tsunami Alaska Municipal League urges Legislature to get ‘er done

In this newscast: A Ketchikan company wins a first-of-its-kind second growth logging contract on Kosciusko Island in the Tongass National Forest, environmentalists sound the alarm on a congressional budget maneuver that could open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, and the journal Science reports nearly 300 species of sea creatures from Japan hitchhiked to the Unites States’ Pacific Coast on tsunami debris. 

Stories include: Walrus advocates, Alaska officials await U.S. listing decision, and Preview of first red king crab opening in Southeast Alaska in six years, and Federal fire investigators volunteer to help with local investigation into fatal fire at 526 Seward Street on September 17.