KDLL Evening Newscast

Kenai Peninsula school board members consider classroom screen time limits. Aviation stakeholders convene for a roundtable in Anchorage. Plus, a new class aims to educate mariners on whale safety in Alaska waters.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly will consider whether to put term limits on school board members. Librarians and public schools fret the potential loss of a federal internet subsidy program. Plus, the Kenai Performers prepare to state the world debut of a new show.

State lawmakers ask the Alaska Division of Elections to restore voting rights to thousands of Alaskans who were dropped from the state's voter list based on old data. Measles is detected in Anchorage water. Plus, Central Emergency Services celebrates a new fire station.

An Anchorage couple say reckless driving is responsible for the death of their service dog on a Kenai Beach. ENSTAR Natural Gas warns Alaskans will likely see higher heating bills this winter. Plus, newly discovered fossils change the way researchers view prehistoric life in Alaska.

The City of Seward plans to turn the town's shuttered middle school into a community center. Plus, lawmakers return to Juneau for a third special session to consider tax legislation for the Alaska LNG Project.

Michael Hicks resigns from the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly. Alaska State Troopers identify the victim in last Friday's fatal Sterling Highway collision as a former Anchorage Assembly member and teacher. Plus, ENSTAR asks state regulators to reconsider its Kenai gas storage project.

State fishery officials say they're not sure why Kenai River sockeye runs are so low this season. The Alaska Division of Elections has moved thousands of registered voters to its “inactive” list due to suspicion that they are not citizens. Plus, Alaska’s main Native healthcare organization is set to receive a $400 million settlement from the federal government.

State lawmakers order an audit of the Alaska Board of Fisheries. The state opens a resident-only muskox hunt on an island where at least five are stranded. Plus, Seward unveils a community wellness vending machine.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission votes to keep a Kenai River access point in Sterling open to the public. Plus, researchers study why the number of women setnetters in Bristol Bay is declining.

Kenai Peninsula lawmakers vote against the latest iteration of a tax break for the Alaska LNG Project. Plus, researchers create prediction models for rusting rivers in rural Alaska.