Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report…Cruise ships have scheduled more stops in Southeast Alaska ports this season than ever before, we’ll hear about some of the challenges that’s posing, audio archives that focused on Southeast Native culture are now available to anyone, and the University of Alaska is looking to expand the state’s healthcare workforce. 

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report…

Two Native corporations are partnering to add Klawock as a cruise destination, an affordable housing project in Juneau is being stalled by the city, and a federal class-action lawsuit claims the state failed to address known problems with the foster care system. 

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report:

• Ketchikan's City Council rejects a property tax hike,
• Plus, Juneau is asking residents to go on vacation and rent their homes to athleses,
• And, a shortage of healthcare workers in Alaska.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report:

• A COVID-19 outbreak at Ketchikan's Pioneer Home has infected more than a dozen people,     
• Plus, Ketchikan's borough is asking residents to help shape its tourism strategy,
• And, the cruise industry and port communities announce an effort to try to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from cruise ships.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report:

• Ketchikan's City Council could raise property taxes at tomorrow's meeting, 
• Plus, two more Ketchikan residents have died of COVID-19,
• And, Haines welcomes its first cruise ship in more than two years.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report:

• Ketchikan's borough mayor follows through on a threat to veto funding for a local LGBTQ organization   
• Plus, the Coast Guard suspends a search for a woman who reportedly fell off a cruise ship near Haines,
• And, while cruise ships are required to report lots and lots of COVID data to authorities, little of that is public.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report:

• Ketchikan residents march in support of abortion rights    
• Plus, Alaska had the biggest jump in overdose deaths in the nation last year,
• And, a former Tlingit and Haida chief justice is appointed to a federal commission to combat the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous people.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report:

• Ketchikan's assembly is set to finalize next year's school budget        
• Plus, sneakers designed by Wrangell High School students make the top 5 in a national competition
• And, one roadblock to overcoming Alaska's shortage of nurses is finding enough instructors to train them.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report:

• A conversation with gubernatorial candidate and former Gov. Bill Walker
• Plus, Ketchikan's school board leaves a policy prohibiting supervisors from dating subordinates in place
• And, how a crew of researchers is searching for a lost cannery ship.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report:

• Scientists, artists and divers are searching for a ship lost a century ago in Southeast Alaska
• Plus, the state Senate approves a budget that includes $5,500 payments to residents
• And, the fentanyl craze fuels a need stronger overdose-reversing drugs.