Newscasts

In this newscast: Commercial salmon trollers in Southeast Alaska have their first king opening of the summer season Saturday, July 1st. Alaska lawmakers are limping towards the halfway point of their second special session this year and taking a collective breather after passing a state operating budget. Gov. Bill Walker participated Wednesday in a White House meeting on energy issues.

In this newscast: Abortion rules are being updated, Report suggests Alaska’s Medicaid program would be cut under U.S. House’s health care bill, CBJ still working out sales tax remittance procedures for Uber and Lyft drivers, Suspect still at large after Petco store is robbed, Bogoslof Volcano erupts again, and Oprah is coming to Southeast Alaska.

In this newscast: A slim majority of the Juneau Assembly voted Monday to join other U.S. cities in endorsing the Paris agreement to combat climate change. The design and density of a high-rise apartment building proposed in downtown Juneau drew a lot of public concern at Monday’s Juneau Assembly meeting.

In this newscast: University of Alaska’s president reacts to Legislature’s $8 million cut Two dozen of Wrangell’s unionized municipal workers strike over pay raise 360 North’s documentary Inside Out: Leaving Prison Behind premiers tonight at 8 p.m.

In this newscast: Hilcorp snapped up more than 100,000 acres in Cook Inlet for additional oil and gas development at federal and state lease sales held yesterday. Alaska U.S Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she needs time to review a health care bill drafted by fellow Republicans to understand its effects. A black bear believed to have mauled a 16-year-old to death over the weekend has been shot and killed.

In this newscast: Bruce Butler of Wasilla has been charged for a double homicide in 2015, Angie Kemp is named the new District Attorney for Juneau, Searchers recover the body of Edgar Curtis from Wasilla Lake, and the Wrangell Assembly adopted its last contract offer to municipal employees.