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In this newscast: A German Shepherd who was on the lam for nearly three months has been captured to returned to her family; The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation says 400,000 gallons of process water spilled at a large lead and zinc mine in Northern Alaska yesterday; The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development is considering whether to reduce the amount of money local governments can give to school district, but a new bill would allow local governments to continue to fund school districts as they have been; Juneau's city-owned ski area expects to run a deficit for the foreseeable future, and their plan to dig out of the deficit relies heavily on revenue from a gondola that has yet to be built; Lawmakers rejected two of Gov. Mike Dunleavy's nominees for state boards and commissions in a joint session of the state House and Senate yesterday

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In this newscast: The Alaska Senate approved its version of the state budget on Wednesday. It includes a $1,000 Permanent Fund dividend. And, for now, a slight surplus. But senators say they expect that surplus to evaporate. And they're warning of tough times in the years ahead; Reporters on the Alaska Desk recently asked people all over the state some open-ended questions about how they're feeling after President Donald Trump's first 100 days. From the Aleutians to Southeast and the Interior, there are never-Trumpers and MAGA diehards – and some Alaskans having changes of heart. Here's what some of them had to say; Anchorage officials are preparing to roll out funding dedicated to improving the city's child care sector. The move comes two years after Anchorage residents voted to dedicate the roughly 5 to 6 million dollars the city receives annually in marijuana taxes to funding child care initiatives.

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly moved forward with a plan Wednesday that — if approved by voters — could add up to $10 million to the city's debt. It would fund critical repairs and upgrades to Juneau's schools after years of deferred maintenance. The Assembly decided to prioritize funding repairs to schools over the city's water and sewer systems, which are also in need of some TLC. That means utility rate hikes are likely on the way; Some immigrants living in Juneau have left the United States after an email from the Department of Homeland Security told them they had to leave. But some people who got the email haven't left; Alaska's public schools may get a long-sought increase in state funding this year. A bill that would boost funding and make changes to education policy passed the state House and Senate Wednesday and will soon head to Gov. Mike Dunleavy's desk.

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In this newscast: A cruise line representative dodged questions form the Juneau Assembly this afternoon about the company's plans to develop a new cruise ship port on the backside of Douglas Island; The Alaska Senate is planning to vote soon on a new education funding bill, even as Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he opposes it; A $38 million federal grant meant to help Alaskans lower their energy bills and planet-warming emissions has been in limbo for months; New cases of HIV in Alaska over the past five years were highly preventable, according to a recent bulletin from the state's section of epidemiology; Small businesses in Alaska are already feeling the impacts of President Trump's sweeping tariff polices

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In this newscast: Two Alaska State Troopers facing assault charges over alleged conduct during their arrest of the wrong man in Kenai last year won't go to trial until next February; Fairbanks Senior Center officials worry that federal funding cuts will limit the organization's ability to provide Meals on Wheels to elderly people who need the nutrition-assistance program; the first of three new Coast Guard fast response cutters to be homeported in Kodiak is officially ready for duty.

Measles is now on Colorado's Western Slope. The state Department of Public Health and Environment says an adult resident of Archuleta County who has not traveled out of the country recently has contracted the disease.

In this newscast: Alaskans used to pay the highest rent in the nation, but new state data show that cost has stabilized; Juneau officials are proposing to set city money aside to hire staff for one of the city's main tourist attractions: the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center; Contractors are building flood barriers along the Mendenhall River to protect Juneau neighborhoods from flooding expected this summer, but new flood maps meant to show whether the barriers will keep homes dry have been delayed a month; Visitors to the Alaska State Capitol will son have to go through a metal detector and have their belongings screened in an X-ray machine, after lawmakers approved a new screening policy 

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In this newscast: Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is yet again expanding its reach in Juneau with a new dental clinic in Mendenhall Valley; Crews in Ketchikan are still dealing with a rockslide that cut off access to the northern part of the island; Southeast Alaska's Chilkat Valley is inching toward the area's first major timber harvest since the 1990s, but the state is pausing a needed application amid public concern; State lawmakers are now more than halfway through their four-month legislative session and time is ticking away. Alaska Public Media reporter Eric Stone gives an update on where things stand; Scientists at the Alaska Earthquake Center are monitoring several earthquakes near Adak Island. Since last Wednesday, there have been at least eight quakes greater than magnitude 5

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In this newscast: Fish processor Silver Bay Seafoods announced Tuesday it will take over all Alaskan facilities owned by competitor OBI Seafoods; Several federal employees in Juneau who were fired as part of President Trump's federal staffing purge have been reinstated; Federal investigators released initial findings from a plane crash near Nome; A Canadian ski race persists amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Canadian governments.

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In this newscast: The Juneau School District Board of Education is expected to pass a budget at a special meeting tonight. The board made last minute changes at its Tuesday meeting and now needs to rebalance the proposed budget

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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: Mining leaders had an optimistic outlook at the third annual Juneau Mining Forum this week; A plan to move Juneau's city employees into the building that houses the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation downtown is inching toward reality; A state-run trust that owns much of the land surrounding a controversial mining project outside Haines has formally decided against purchasing federal mining claims in the area; Snow is melting early across large swaths of Alaska this year, which could mean a big wildfire season in certain parts of the state

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In this newscast: Roughly three-quarters of the staff at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center have been laid off, according to former employees with knowledge of the situation; Bartlett Regional Hospital's board voted to incrementally pay back $2 million to the City and Borough of Juneau over the next three years; Congressman Nick Begich III told the Alaska Legislature the state has become too dependent on federal spending; A panel of civil rights and immigration advocates addressed how immigration policy changes from the Trump administration may affect Alaskans; The Southeast island community of Petersburg called a town hall meeting last week to discuss the future of tourism, as they consider a potential partnership with a small cruise ship company

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In this newscast: Juneau's city-owned hospital is in a much better financial position than it has been in years. For the last eight months, the hospital has been making steady positive income; A deadly strain of bird flu is sweeping the nation. It has killed more than 20 million chickens since October, and that has scrambled the egg market. Alaska Public Media's Ava White has more on how Anchorage businesses are coping with rapidly increasing egg prices along with supply problems; Juneau's city-owned hospital is in a much better financial position than it has been in years. For the last eight months, the hospital has been making steady positive income; Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as President Trump's director of national intelligence. She also announced that she intends to vote to confirm Robert Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services.

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In this newscast: Juneau city officials have proposed a multi-million dollar wastewater bond package to offset utility rate hikes; Ketchikan's local governments are pursuing a new sales tax on cruise ship passengers; The U.S. Forest Service has completed assessment reports on over 20 topics that will inform how the Tongass National Forest will be managed in decades to come. The last time the Forest Service studied the Tongass this deeply, the movie Titanic was hitting the screens; Delta Junction residents will soon have to make a decision about whether, and how, they'll restore emergency medical services to their community, after the city's only ambulance service, Delta Medical Transport, announced that it will stop providing services to the city

In this newscast: Alaska students posted some of the lowest scores in the country in national reading and math test results that were released yesterday; State regulators have fined proponents of the 2024 ranked choice repeal ballot measure nearly $157,000 for what officials called "egregious and widespread" violations of campaign finance laws; Officials in Alaska are still scrambling to understand the impact of a Trump Administration freeze that halts spending on infrastructure project -- one that came before the memo that froze federal grants and loans this week; This week, Juneau is seeing some snow after a winter that hasn't gotten nearly as much as usual, and skiers are taking advantage of it 

In this newscast:  Juneau residents had a chance to ask questions and offer comments on a proposed fifth cruise ship dock at two public meetings this week; A key public-sector union and some Democratic state lawmakers are calling on Gov. Mike Dunleavy to release the results of a million-dollar study on how competitive the state's salaries are; Seven tribal organizations across the state of Alaska received over $12 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last month; More than 50 people gathered in Homer Saturday for the annual "Women's March on Homer"

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In this newscast: Election officials rejected more than 1,300 absentee ballots in the November 2024 general elections; The 2025 Kuskokwim 300 has been pushed back two weeks because of poor snowfall and above-freezing temperatures; The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center raised over $30,000 in just two days to rebuild an animal shelter after it was destroyed by high winds last Monday; Fifty people experiencing homelessness died on the streets of Anchorage last year; Bethel's tribal government recently had the rare opportunity to repatriate the remains of four Yup'ik ancestors taken from the area more than a century ago

In this newscast: Juneau police: Man who died inside Mendenhall Valley home intentionally set it on fire; The Ketchikan City Council is still on track to approve a hefty electric rate increase; A man held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex has died  after authorities say his cellmate severely beat him; Anchorage officers shot a man early Wednesday, in the second police shooting in Anchorage in 24 hours; A consultant hired by Anchorage's municipal attorney has a dozen recommendations to improve police de-escalation and use of force polices; More than a million pounds of Alaska's snow crab that might have previously gone unfished can now be processed, thanks to an agreement between the cities of St. Paul and Unalaska

In this newscast: Congress passed the American Relief Act of 2025, with millions of dollars directed to study possible ways to mitigate Juneau's glacial outburst floods in the long term; Juneau police name officers involved in fatal Christmas morning shooting; Family and community members mourn the loss of Juneau resident killed by police on Christmas morning; The Sitka Assembly is on notice that there's another difficult year ahead for local schools; Ketchikan Indian Community announced that it's opened a new emergency warming shelter for unhoused tribal citizens

In this newscast: A Juneau woman died after she was shot and killed by a Juneau Police officer in the parking lot of the Mendenhall Valley Breeze In convenience store early Christmas morning; The small Southeast Alaska town of Gustavus is hosting a food drive this weekend. And it's getting a boost from the Juneau food bank. The drive is the first step in plans to open up a new, permanent food pantry – something the town doesn't have yet. But organizers say it's something Gustavus desperately needs; Finding affordable housing in Anchorage is a challenge, and housing experts are looking for solutions. One idea is making it easier for people to live in multigenerational homes. That can help solve the housing shortage by increasing density- fitting more people into one lot of land. But there are other benefits too- like allowing residents to age in place.

In this newscast: U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason dismissed a lawsuit filed by the State of Alaska that sought ownership of the land beneath Mendenhall Lake and part of the river. It's a defeat in the Dunleavy administration's push to take control of federal lands in the state; After three previous failed attempts, a fourth application to put a cruise limit question before Sitka voters has passed the city's initial legal review; Alaska has the highest rate of sexual assault in the country, and one of the highest rates of domestic violence. But survivors, especially in rural areas, don't always have access to someone who can collect forensic evidence of those crimes. So an Anchorage nurse is training healthcare providers on how to do this for their patients. 

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In this newscast: The head of the agency that manages the Alaska Permanent Fund is getting a raise. The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation's Board of Trustees approved a 10% pay increase for CEO Deven Mitchell on Tuesday, bringing his total salary to more than $420,000 a year; A massive sea lion will no longer be terrorizing people and pets in Petersburg's South Harbor. It was killed this weekend --- but not by law enforcement. Instead, they collaborated with two Tlingit brothers who plan to use the hide and whiskers for traditional regalia; A Sugt'stun language game is quickly gaining recognition since its release in 2023. KBBI's Jamie Diep has more on the game's development that teaches children around the world about Sugpiaq culture; A federal judge in Oregon and a Washington state court judge both issued rulings Tuesday temporarily blocking the proposed merger between grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons, halting fears of numerous Alaska store closures.

In this newscast: The U.S. Coast Guard has released the names of the five fishermen lost in the boat sinking near Hoonah on Sunday; Alaska is turning down millions in federal funding earmarked to replace water infrastructure that contains lead -- because the state doesn't have any; Eaglecrest Ski Area has just enough snow to partially open to skiers on Saturday — its scheduled opening day. It marks the kick-off of the winter ski season in Juneau; Ketchikan's new city-sponsored Mobile Integrated Healthcare program launched in June, but recently one of the programs two paramedics was fired - a week after he criticized the city; The Northwest Arctic community of Kiana has been without running water for several days

In this newscast: A ballot measure that would repeal ranked choice voting in Alaska has narrowly failed. That's according to final unofficial results the Division of Elections released last night; A plan to extend Juneau's downtown waterfront walking path, also known as the seawalk, crossed a major hurdle earlier this week; Alaska's transgender community is worried that a second Donald Trump presidency might threaten their access to gender-affirming care, or healthcare that allows people to transition medically -- and providers in the state are worried too; There will be more women than men in the Alaska House of Representatives for the first time in its history when the Legislature convenes in January. That's according to final unofficial election results released Wednesday

In this newscast:  High school and middle school students in Juneau are reportedly fighting more this semester than in years prior; Rumors abound that Gov. Mike Dunleavy may leave the governor's mansion for a post in the Trump administration; The City of Sitka has its first agreement with the local, privately owned cruise dock; The former mayor of the Yukon River community of Pilot Station has pled guilty to felony election interference

In this newscast: Some key races across Alaska remain too close to call with tens of thousands of votes yet to be counted. Ballot Measure 2, repealing ranked choice voting and open primaries, leads by less than two percentage points. A Fairbanks state Senate race and an Anchorage House race are each on a knife's edge; Next week marks the beginning of wolf-trapping season on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. But on the island – and the smaller islands surrounding it – getting an accurate count of the local wolf population has been a huge challenge. Now, managers are trying some interesting new counting techniques. Last summer, they hired a dog named Barley to sniff out an important source of data for tracking and understanding wolves - their poop; Bipartisan majorities will control both the Alaska House and Senate following the election, lawmakers said Wednesday evening.

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In this newscast: A conservative campaign group is facing questions over whether it properly disclosed the donors who funded ads in Alaska races; Lingít veterans hold space for dual identities during US Navy apology in Angoon; Searchers from Sitka on Wednesday (10-30-24) recovered the body of a hunter who died in a brown bear attack; As the first major batch of snow falls in Anchorage, the city is opening more hotel rooms to serve as shelter for homeless residents

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In this newscast: The final cruise ship of the season, the Norwegian Jewel, leaves Juneau on Thursday evening. It concludes a nearly 200-day cruise ship season for the capital city; The City and Borough of Juneau formally apologized for the 1962 burning of the Douglas Indian Village at a Juneau Assembly meeting on Monday; This week, the Juneau Planning Commission approved a series of land rezones that span from North Douglas to Auke Bay. All of them would increase housing density in those areas, but not everybody is thrilled about it; The Northwest Arctic community of Kotzebue is starting recovery efforts after a coastal storm caused widespread flooding to the town of over 3000 people 

In this newscast: U.S. President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration more than two months after a record-breaking glacial outburst damaged nearly 300 homes in Juneau's Mendenhall Valley; Juneau voters said no to a proposition that would have banned all large cruise ships on Saturdays in this year's municipal election. But, it's not the end of the effort to address the impacts of tourism growth. And now, plans for a new cruise ship dock on Douglas are complicating things; Tribal and federal officials say they're forging a new relationship to address climate change-related threats in Alaska's rural communities. A  new National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration grant will create 80 new jobs to improve climate change response in remote Alaska Native communities statewide; This week teacher and author Genét Simone will stop in Nome for a book tour promoting her memoir, “Teaching in the Dark." The book reflects on a transformative year of teaching in Shishmaref in the 1980s. In it, she discusses the challenges and rewards of teaching in the small sub-Arctic village. 

In this newscast: The National Weather Service Office in Juneau said water levels in Suicide Basin dropped this morning. That could mean this year's second glacial outburst flood is on the way. But based on current water levels in the basin, the potential flood would be far less damaging than this past summer's flood; Next Tuesday, the City and Borough of Juneau will open its cold weather emergency warming shelter for the winter. It's the shelter's second year in a warehouse in Thane operated by St. Vincent de Paul; Moderate candidates have a large fundraising advantage in state House and Senate races key to control of the Alaska Legislature, according to a new round of campaign finance data reported a month ahead of Election Day. 

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