Newscasts

In this newscast: A widespread internet outage in Sitka continued into the weekend; Underwater anthropologist Kelly Monteleone kicks off Sealaska Heritage Institute’s fall lecture series this week; A new project helps provides communities with data on their local permafrost and erosion risks. 

In the newscast:

Heavy rainfall is coming to Southeast Alaska this weekend, beginning Friday afternoon,

An advocacy group is telling Juneau residents to vote no on a proposition set to appear on the local ballot this fall. It’s about whether large cruise ships should be banned on Saturdays starting next year,
Sitka continued to experience a wide internet and cell service outage Friday Despite the outage, a Sitka search and rescue ended successfully,
Dr. Gabriel Wolken on how landslides are often the result of a complicated series of events

In this newscast: A new partnership between a cruise ship company and a local Alaska Native corporation aims to improve internet in the downtown area during the cruise season; Juneau’s Echo Ranch Bible Camp is among the places where a California man allegedly abused boys over the span of decades, according to a recent lawsuit. Now, the people who say they were victims of Bradley Earl Reger are trying to hold the institutions where the abuse took place accountable; More than three dozen entities have called on the Biden Administration and the EPA to ban the use of technology that uses water to flush out harmful chemicals from a ship’s exhaust at the national level; Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola and challenger Nick Begich vied for the support of the oil industry at a candidates’ forum in Anchorage

In this newscast: Teams of scientists, engineers and meteorologists continue their work assessing the steep hillside in Ketchikan following Sunday’s fatal landslide; The annual State of the Climate report is out; Officials say the Covenant House youth homeless shelter in Anchorage helps young people with skills to live on their own; Climate change is altering where wild berries grow in Alaska, and when, so researchers are gathering data

In this newscast: US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has finalized a decision to maintain protections for 28 million acres of wilderness lands across Alaska, known as “D-1” lands; Ketchikan residents describe a chaotic scene in the minutes and hours after a landslide ripped through a residential neighborhood; A new study released by NOAA deepens the connection between human-caused climate change and the die-off of Bering Sea snow crabs; Tongass Voices: Sh Dei Wooteen Jeni Brown on speaking up — “Everybody has a warrior inside them”

In this newscast:  Southeast Alaska health officials say cases of pertussis, commonly called whooping cough, are up in Juneau; Emergency crews responded to a large landslide that killed one person and destroyed several houses in Ketchikan on Sunday; A bellweather trial is began today in a fight over whether the parent companies of two Alaska grocery chains can merge; Petersburg residents are ramping up their efforts to track and combat the invasive European green crabs; Southeast Alaska’s king salmon sport fishery is closed, effective Monday through the end of September