Newscasts

In this newscast: Alaska House lawmakers made a few changes to a high-priority education bill during a marathon floor session on Monday; No one was hurt in a fire at the Dzantik’i Heeni campus in Juneau earlier today, but evacuated students huddled outside for hours; The state Department of Transportation is resurrecting the controversial idea to build a road between Juneau and the communities of Haines and Skagway; Congress is considering huge cuts to Medicaid and Alaska health care experts say that would have an outsized impact in the state; One of the teams in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is comprised mostly of shelter adoptees

In this newscast: The ACLU of Alaska is suing the Alaska Department of Corrections for its role in the 2023 death of Lewis Jordan Junior on behalf of Jordan’s family; The University of Alaska Southeast is taking next steps to remove mentions of DEI from its website; Alaska’s National Weather Service offices have not been spared from the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce; Members of Juneau’s LGBTQ+ community, and the people who support them, gathered in droves on Sunday to protest the Trump administration’s policies and language surrounding queer and trans people

In this newscast: The Juneau School District Board of Education appears to maintain its concerns about state funding as it moves through the budget process for the next fiscal year; Juneau residents join protesters nationwide in response to President Trumps scientific research funding cuts and firings at federal science institutions; Anglers will be able to fish for king salmon near Petersburg this summer after a recent decision from the Alaska Board of Fisheries; There’s a 50-50 change the Alaska Permanent Fund won’t have enough spendable money to pay dividends and the state’s bills at least once over the next decade.

In this newscast: Homes in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley are seeing a decline in their assessed value following last August’s glacial outburst flood; Juneau’s trail maintenance nonprofit, Trail Mix, wants to hire fired Forest Service employees if — it can raise enough money to pay them; Three heli-skiers who died in an avalanche Tuesday near Girdwood had ties to Minnesota; Research in marine species show they may be fixtures in the Arctic, to the interest of scientists. It may also mean changes to subsistence to Alaska’s most northern communities.

In this newscast: State lawmakers unveiled a revised education funding ahead of a floor debate in the House tentatively scheduled for Monday; The City of Juneau is doing site assessments at homes to prepare for flood barrier installations; Untried defendents – people accused of crimes but presumed innocent until found otherwise by the court – remain in jail as criminal cases take a long time to go to trial; GCI users in Sitka will lose internet service starting Friday for up to ten days.

In this newscast: President Donald Trump’s long-promised tariffs on goods imported from China, Canada and Mexico took effect this morning. It marks the start of a trade war that has many Alaskans bracing for higher prices. Despite the growing tensions between the countries, local leaders in Juneau say they are committed to maintaining a close relationship with the Canadian City of Whitehorse; Juneau’s trail maintenance nonprofit won’t be maintaining Forest Service trails this season, unless it can crowd-source funding for a new trail crew; There are just 33 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race teams sprinting to Nome right now, tying the record of the smallest field ever. As Alaska Public Media’s Ava White reports, mushers all point to one big challenge.