KTOO News Update

In this newscast: The federal government will take over silver salmon management in the lower Kuskowim River if the run stays low; Governor Mike Dunleavy ran as the conservative candidate last term, but this year he faces two challengers to his right on the political spectrum; The U.S. Department of Interior must hold an oil…

In this newscast: The state's latest labor data shows that about one out of every nine jobs in Alaska is unfilled; Ironman Alaska participants and an economic analyst tally up the event's economic impact on Juneau; The two Republican candidates in Alaska's first ranked choice vote election are attacking each other; Tara Sweeney files to run as a write-in candidate in the special U.S. House election; And a correction for a story about a Pebble Mine investor from Wednesday

In this newscast: The families of four cruise passengers killed in a floatplane crash sue Holland America Line; A federal court rules that the National Marine Fisheries Services improperly approved a troll fisher for king salmon in Southeast Alaska; OBI Seafoods in Petersburg hits pink salmon processing milestone for the summer; A brown bear and three cubs have taken up residence in Kodiak; A tribe in Washington state builds a tsunami refuge tower; Organizations are getting creative in their education around the upcoming ranked-choice voting election

In this newscast: Juneau police identify the crew member that went missing off a cruise ship on Monday night; The Juneau school board leaves masking optional for the upcoming school year; Health authorities say a Juneau woman in her 30s has died from COVID-19; The Pebble Mine project gets a mysterious new investor; Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson launches an investigation into how his administration failed to catch his health director's fake credentials

In this newscast: A cruise ship crew member is presumed dead after going overboard in Juneau waters; Federal officials say potentially billions of dollars are headed to Alaska for broadband internet access; the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. posts negative investment returns for the last fiscal year for the first time in a decade; small businesses in Southeast Alaska compete for Pathway to Prosperity grants; Anchorage's health director resigns after being confronted with evidence showing he vastly overstated his educational credentials and military background

In this newscast: Alaska's first Ironman triathlon was in Juneau on Sunday; A Wyoming couple discovers a time capsule from 2006 at Mendenhall Lake; The Alaska Federation of Natives plans to hold its first in-person convention this October since 2019; Ketchikan parents sue their school district over a reference to "our creator" in tribal values posted in school; For the seventh time this year, an inmate in the custody of the Alaska Department of Corrections has died; Two Anchorage police officers violated department policy during a traffic stop when a woman handed them a novelty "white privilege" card; Demolition has begun on the iconic 4th Avenue Theatre in Anchorage

In this newscast: U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan supports House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan; Two refugees from Ukraine resettle in Juneau; UAF and UAS offer a new graduate degree in marine policy; Oath Keepers member and Wasilla Rep. David Eastman gets sued for disloyalty; Outdoor deaths in Anchorage spike; The National Weather Service says a break in the rain is coming after irregular dumps

In this newscast: Early voting begins for the Aug. 16 elections; Candidates for Alaska's U.S. House seat appear at a candidate forum; Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve starts its own cruise ship monitoring program; Some refugees from Ukraine are living aboard a former state ferry in Ketchikan; Wildlife monitors in Metlakatla collect the live invasive European green crabs for the first time

In this newscast: Alaska records its first case of monkeypox; Gov. Mike Dunleavy signs a bill that lets tribes apply to create their own public schools; A preview of local election ballot questions coming  up in Monday's Juneau Assembly meeting; Conditions in global energy markets are making liquefied natural gas projects more attractive; A labor union negotiates a tentative contract to make some of Alaska Airlines workers the highest paid employees in the industry

In this newscast: Congress passes a $280 billion bill to subsidize domestic production of computer chips; The public comment period closes soon on NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center draft research plans on climate change; Federal officials announce plans to spend $401 million in grants and loans to expand internet for rural parts of 11 states including Alaska; Four children are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in Fairbanks; Ironman Alaska athletes scramble to get their bikes to Juneau in time for the race; The Sitka Tribe of Alaska is expanding surveys to see where the local herring egg harvest ends up; Researchers try to refine how they count a declining Aleutian tern population when its range is almost 10,000 miles; The Tanana Valley State Fair bans poultry because of the threat of avian influenza