Newscasts

In this newscast: Two candidates have filed to run for the Juneau School Board and a longtime Juneau resident and painter passed away in Juneau Pioneer Home. 

In this newscast: The Bluejack gold mine in British Columbia near the controversial KSM mining complex begins operations NOAA researchers identify extremely rare whale species in the Bering Sea State ferry Tustumena returns to service after wasted steel took it out of commission in March

Stories include: an oil spoil from a North Slope well owned by Caelus Energy; a crash injures people on a tour in Skagway Wednesday; the Coast Guard Cutter Maple reaches the Northwest Passage Aug. 3 on its way to Baltimore; and the realities of the Southeast king salmon closure hits home.

Stories include the sale of the Juneau Empire and two other Alaska newspapers by Morris Communications, a dead whale found on the bow of a cruise ship in Ketchikan, and the Golden North Salmon Derby continuing despite a new prohibition against keeping king salmon.

In this newscast: The National Endowment for the Humanities is funding Native language education programs around the country, and local authorities rescue two separate stranded hikers in roughly the same area off West Glacier Trail on the same day. 

In this newscast: Police searched a house downtown that neighbors suspect criminal activity occurs in and Juneau wildlife managers believe this year will bring a successful deer hunting season.