KTOO News Update

In this newscast: Juneau's missing persons Facebook group is run by those who've lost someone; Dillingham tribal members and elementary school students have worked to rename a creek and road; Last week's major Eagle River avalanche could take weeks to clean up

In this newscast: The Alaska Supreme Court says a new Senate district's boundaries are an "unconstitutional political gerrymander"; Juneau officials are making a Lemon Creek multi-use path a priority; Goldbelt Inc. wants to help Eaglecrest Ski Area pay for its gondola project and expand summer operations; Officials in Haines and Skagway are raising questions about how a proposed mine will get its ore out of the Chilkat Valley; Kodiak's Coast Guard base is getting a huge influx of federal infrastructure money; Democrat Elvi Gray-Jackson decides to end her run for U.S. Senate; Plans for a Alaska service for the late Rep. Don Young are set; Clear skies are lining up with a moderate aurora forecast this weekend

In this newscast: The Juneau Police Department creates a missing persons web page; Researchers present findings and recommendations on managing landslide risk in Haines; Federal investigators release documents in their investigation of fatal sightseeing plane crash near Ketchikan in 2021; Alaska's congressional delegation calls for a permanent ban on Russian seafood imports; The Anchorage Assembly will get a 12th member after redrawing district maps

In this newscast: The main system Juneau officials have used to manage the COVID-19 pandemic is set to end next month; State officials lay out the timeline for special elections to fill Congressman Don Young's vacant seat; The Ayaprun Elitnaurvik Yup'ik Immersion School in Bethel is expanding; Anchorage officials are negotiating a contract to build a large homeless shelter; Microgrants for tools to grow, hunt and store food are available for to address food insecurity

In this newscast: Nome settles a lawsuit with a woman says police officers mishandled her sexual assault report; The Alaska Supreme Court considers arguments in legislative redistricting cases; State biologists are monitoring an oil spill for affects on the sac roe herring fishery in Sitka; Climate change is getting top billing at Kodiak's annual commercial fishing trade show

In this newscast: The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services will be split into separate departments in July; Alaska Congressman Don Young will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on March 29; Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson will propose naming the Port of Alaska after Don Young; The U.S. Forest Service releases an environmental impact statement for options to expand facilities at the Mendenhall Glacier; Brian Buchman discusses his newspaper "The Homeless Changed"; The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program is expanding its high school component to Juneau; The latest COVID numbers; A strong storm is approaching Southeast Alaska

In this newscast: AKPM's Liz Ruskin investigates the claim that the US cutting off Russian oil means that Alaska should produce more oil; A proposed bill seeks to address high school dropout rates by putting the education plans in the hands of Tribes

In this newscast: Juneau Bartlett Region Hospital is the first state in to be cited for COVID-19 workplace safety violations; A new episode of Molly of Denali celebrates Filipino Athabascan identity; Tlingit and Haida President is in Washington D.C. for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act

In this newscast: There multiple avalanches above the Flume trail this week; Congress's omnibus package will fund a water pipe on Wrangell Island; A bill to improve the Village Public Safety Officer program is in the Alaska House; The omnibus package will also reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly made a change to the city's Long Range Waterfront Plan, allowing for another cruise ship dock; Storytime at Mendenhall Valley Public Library is back; The Malaspina ferry ship could be turned into a museum; Alaska's state government expects to raise more than $3.5 billion more this and next year than projected in December; A Fairbanks jury has indicted the man who is accused of a fatal shooting at a Safeway