KTOO News Update

In this newscast: Juneau high school students held a turkey shoot; Aluminum canoe sculpture now installed at Overstreet Park in Juneau; Four "Molly of Denali" episodes will be dubbed into Alaska Native languages; Dr. Anne Zink's plans for Thanksgiving

In this newscast: The state's plan to get rid of TB screening in schools; Public comment open on reinstating the Roadless Rule; Juneau pencils out more electric docks; Juneau woman organizes clothing drive; Man pleads not guilty to federal charges of threatening to kill Alaska's U.S. senators

In this newscast: Juneau care facilities are paying to train and certify nursing assistants; The Dunleavy administration is setting up a task force to address bycatch.

In this newscast: Icy conditions force an overloaded ferry to turn around back to Juneau; Alaskans will vote next year on a constitutional convention

In this newscast: Juneau property owners have lost every commercial property assessment appeal heard so far; Juneau schools offer antigen tests as alternative to quarantines for students exposed to COVID-19; Juneau had its first big winter storm; The EPA is extending a deadline to decide on proposed restrictions to Pebble Mine

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Federal investigators have released more information about a plane that crashed at Juneau's airport last month; Through this past weekend, sea ice extent in the Chuckchi Sea was well above average from the last 30 years; An Anchorage man who was blinded by a bear is taking his story to the silver screen; Skagway will offer unemployment benefits to those who stay in town this winter

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Juneau's Board of Education has approved new oral narrative standards for Lingít language to be taught to children;

A new airline with Juneau ties that will be making flights between Unalaska and Anchorage as delayed that route launch until 2022;

Legal challenges are expected after a divided Alaska's Redistricting Board approved new maps;

Alaska Congressman Don Young named two veteran political consultants to his campaign team on Monday;

Yakutat's village corporation has postponed its annual board election while it confers with its attorneys over its logging operations;

Petersburg's latest COVID-19 outbreak has caused widespread disruption in the community;

A federal judge has blocked the enforcement of part of the American Rescue Plan that prohibits state from using pandemic relief to offset tax cuts

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COVID-19 numbers are falling statewide;

Juneau emergency officials relax some COVID precautions;

Tsimshian language learner Nancy Barnes shares how the language helped her get through the pandemic;

The Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska brings together coastal communities to discuss adapting to climate change; 

A scientist who discovered the first fossils that showed the oldest whales walked on land visits UAF; 

A Utah doctor is accused of lying about ill patients in his climbing party to get a helicopter ride off Denali.

In this newscast: Sen. Lisa Murkowski runs for re-election; Young kids get vaccinated for COVID-19 in Juneau; Scientists research risk of landslides in Glacier Bay National Park

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The creators of an "Alaska Abusers" list say they're trying to bring some accountability to abusers, others say vigilante justice may not be the best way to do that;

Juneau's cold weather emergency shelter will be at Resurrection Lutheran Church near downtown;