In this newscast: The president of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Andy Teuber has resigned; Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka ceelbrated Gil Truitt Day today and will honor the Tlingit elder and local historian this evening with a plaque dedication and tribute; Some Alaska communities have had no COVID-19 cases through the whole pandemic and have vaccinated enough people to be close to reaching herd immunity; Trident Seafoods' huge processing plant on the remote Aleutian island of Akutan reopened Friday after nearly a month-long COVID-19 closure.

In this newscast: The avalanche danger for downtown Juneau was lowered from 'high' to 'considerable' on Monday; The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday that it would provide assistance for the December storm disaster in Southeast Alaska; The cruise industry in Southeast Alaska remains frustrated by Canada's decision to close its ports to large ships for the year, effectively prohibiting anything close to a typical visitor season in 2021. But in 2022, the cruise rebound in ports like Sitka could be staggering; Alaska public health officials say 3,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine will arrive later than expected because of a winter storm that has ravaged the lower 48; Newly purchased property and buildings adjacent to an Anchorage shelter are expected to serve as a resource hub for people experiencing homelessness.

The nonprofit health organization SEARHC is giving some of the COVID-19 vaccine supplies it gets from the federal Indian Health Services to Juneau for its next mass vaccination clinic in March,

Federal aviation safety investigators have closed the book on the Guardian Flight fatal crash in 2019 that killed three crew members,

Before the November election, political groups made last-minute ad blitzes to try to tip the state House toward their agendas. But up until recently, there was no way for Alaskans to know who was paying for the attacks,

If you want to cross the lake to visit the ice caves in the Mendenhall Glacier, do so a your own risk,

Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has told Republican Sen. Lora Reinbold his administration will no longer respond to her as the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In this newscast: Alaska recorded 40 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, the lowest daily case count since September; Winter cold snaps aren’t just causing frozen pipes and power outages in the lower 48; Gov. Mike Dunleavy has quietly appointed an unknown real estate executive to an agency tasked with regulating commercial fishing permits; Alaska’s Emergency Disaster Declaration for COVID-19 lapsed on Sunday -- but that hardly means the end of the statewide effort to combat the ongoing pandemic.

In Juneau, the pandemic risk level is being downgraded to its lowest level -- or minimal risk.

Without a permit, using fireworks -- even sparklers -- would be banned 361 days of the year in most populated areas of Juneau under a proposed local law. the controversial measure would also restore a past ban on the sale of fireworks in Juneau. There's just one retailer in town the sales ban would affect.

A chairlift providing access to the upper portion of the city-owned Eaglecrest Ski Area has been repaired after last week's high winds. And, it's back in operation. 

Native Americans are bucking a trend of populations who harbor doubts about the coronavirus vaccines.

In this newscast:  Today is Elizabeth Peratrovich Day in Alaska, marking the anniversary of the signing of an anti-discrimination bill passed by Alaska’s territorial legislature in 1945; Faced with the prospect of another canceled cruise season, Ketchikan’s borough is projecting a multimillion-dollar deficit; Seal oil has been a staple in the diet of Alaska's Inupiat for generations; A federal appeals court has sided with conservation and Indigenous groups by ordering work to stop at a major oil project on Alaska's North Slope.

In this newscast: 

Gov. Mike Dunleavy addresses what the end of his pandemic emergency declaration, 

Public Safety Commissioner Amanda Price resigns abruptly, 

the head of the University of Alaska system updates lawmakers, 

A federal appeals court orders work to stop at an oil project in the NPR-A, 

the family of a Kodiak man killed at a naval facility await answers from authorities, 

outbreaks at Matanuska-Susitna Borough schools trigger a mask policy at sporting events, and 

damage shuts down the Ptarmigan chairlift at Eaglecrest Ski Area.

In this newscast: Help is on the way for Juneau residents who need financial relief; Six people have been chosen to lead a new Systemic Racism Review Committee in Juneau; Sitka has become a hot spot for landslide research since a deadly landslide hit the town in 2015; The state of Alaska's investment authority board has agreed to put $35 million towards the controversial Ambler Road project.

In this newscast: Hundreds more Juneau residents with applications pending for individual assistance grants may get paid soon; Gov. Mike Dunleavy warned Alaskans away from "misinformation" regarding the pandemic and his administration's response to it; Petersburg, like other communities in Southeast Alaska, saw next to zero tourism last summer; Alaska Native tribes are awaiting word on scores of wireless broadband licenses at no charge by the Federal Communications Commission.

In this newscast: State officials announced today that the next tier of people eligible for vaccination against COVID-19 opens tomorrow; When Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s pandemic disaster declaration expires this weekend, the state will lose a wide range of special powers to respond to COVID-19; Several million dollars in pandemic relief money is still available to Tlingit and Haida tribal members.