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In this newscast: Juneau residents will have a chance to learn more about the three finalists for Juneau's next city attorney this week; Tommy, the mythical sole survivor of the Princess Sophia wreck, is cast in bronze atop a boulder at Tee Harbor; The Alaska Travel Industry Association confirmed that the state broke a cruise ship passenger record last year

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In this newscast: The Juneau Police Department has released the names of the officers involved in last week's deadly shooting downtown; Protesters took to the streets downtown to express their anger over the death of Steven Kissack; Anchorage police officials say they'll enact a new body camera policy this week that mandates the release of footage of police shootings within 45 days; Tongass Voices: Xixtc’ i see Ruby Hughes fuses pop culture and tradition in her sewing

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In this newscast: A Haines man and a couple flying from Juneau to Yakutat are missing after their plane never arrived at its destination over the weekend; Former Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation CEO Angela Rodell is running for Juneau Mayor; People who witnessed Monday's deadly police shooting in downtown Juneau are carrying a lot of emotions, and a local mental health care provider has compiled resources to help residents deal with the trauma; The 9th District Court of Appeals heard cases for and against a lower court ruling that threated to halt Southeast Alaska's troll fishery for king salmon

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In this newscast: State officials say they're working to improve the speed of their investigations into police shootings as public pressure mounts for the release of body camera footage of the incidents; A federal judge is sending Interior Department officials back to the drawing board after concluding that a Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale didn't adequately consider the possible impacts on endangered beluga whales in the area; The judge sentencing convicted killer Brian Smith in Anchorage last week gave prosecutors the 226 year sentence they asked for, for the murders of two Alaska Native women

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In this newscast: Resurrection Lutheran Church held a vigil for Steven Kissack, and many community members are still reeling after he was shot and killed by law enforcement; Archeologists excavating an ancient pit house near Delta Junction say the artifacts they've found have helped them understand more about the people who've lived there for 14,000 years

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In this newscast: A landslide in downtown Juneau displaced at least seven people in the Strasbaugh Apartments building late Sunday morning amid heavy rain; A federal judge in Juneau sentenced two members of a Washington state family who sold over 1 million dollars of fake Alaska Native art in Ketchikan; In the wake of five police shootings in Anchorage in less than two months, the Party for Socialism and Liberation-Anchorage is pushing for the city to establish an independent police review board to increase transparency and accountability; The wet weather that drenched much of Southeast Alaska over the weekend is expected to persist through tomorrow morning.

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In this newscast: The start of the 10-day period to file to run for a seat on Juneau's Assembly or Board of Education opened today; Communities across the state like Ketchikan are developing tough-on-crime policies to try to reduce the crime rates, and KRBD stopped by a community organization that's using a different method to reduce recidivism; The U.S. Coast Guard encountered four Chinese military ships in the Bering Sea over the weekend

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In this newscast: An Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development study shows that Juneau has the highest average cost of a single-family home in Alaska; New rules for bringing dogs into the United States are set to take effect next month, and will have some unique impacts in Alaska; A fisherman has died in Bristol Bay's sockeye salmon gillnet fishery

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In this newscast: A citizen's committee charged with reviewing books for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District has completed its work; The Alaska chapter of the ACLU is stepping up its pressure on the Alaska Department of Corrections over what it says are improper restrictions on inmates' access to private conversations with their attorneys; Tongass Voices: Lovely Colours on playing for their hometown

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In this newscast: Dozens of jobs previously cut from the Juneau School District due to a lack of funding are now being added back for the coming school year; Cool, rainy weather over the long holiday weekend aided firefighters working to contain wildfires around the state; The Alaska Marine Highway System's proposed winter ferry schedule has just one ferry serving Southeast Alaska's main route, and it leaves some communities out; North Pacific sablefish are a single genetic population, according to a new study published last month through NOAA fisheries

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In this newscast: The Alaska Supreme Court handed the state a victory last week when it reversed a lower court ruling that had thrown out two key homeschool laws as unconstitutional, but there's a key question the court didn't address: whether Alaska correspondence schools can allow parents to spend public money at private schools; An electrical fire damaged one of three spiral freezers aboard the Northline Seafood floating processing barge over the weekend, leaving the barge at a reduced capacity just ahead of the peak of the region's massive sockeye run

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In this newscast: Ice is melting faster in the Juneau Icefield than expected; Juneau's former downtown homeless shelter has been converted into seven affordable housing units; A Canadian company is getting close to the permitting stage to reopen a gold mine at the headwaters of a river that flows into Southeast Alaska, and the British Columbia government is downplaying their responsibility to consult with Alaska tribes

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In this newscast: The Little Mermaid Beauty Salon in Douglas closed for good last weekend after 60 years; A researcher with the Pacific Northwest Research Station is recording connections between people and subsistence foods for a new project with the National Forest Service

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In this newscast: Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed the state's $12.2 billion operating budget Friday; Last week, a federal judge in Anchorage ruled that tribes in Alaska can put land into trust; Tongass Voices: Sakoon Donedin Jackson on re-indigenizing her life

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In this newscast: The Biden Administration finalized a decision blocking the controversial Ambler Road project; In the last 14 months, four men have died while working in the oil fields on the North Slope. Before that, the area hadn't seen a death in about five years

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In this newscast: A high-stakes battle over a popular form of homeschooling reached the Alaska Supreme Court today; Curious Juneau: Juneau is a windy city. So why don’t we have more wind turbines?

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In this newscast: Supports of Alaska's ranked-choice voting were in court Monday in an attempt to disqualify a ballot measure that would repeal the election reforms voters adopted in 2020; A Juneau artist's family is donating hundreds of photos of King Island taken in the early 1950s before the residents were removed from the remote Bering Sea island; An audio postcard from Dillingham's boatyard as fishing crews get ready for the Bristol Bay salmon season

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In this newscast: Recent Juneau high school graduate and soon-to-be collegiate swimmer PJ Foy competed in the U.S. Olympic trials in Indianapolis on Friday; Last week, a group of Juneau middle schoolers got a crash course in renewable electricity through a summer camp called the “Nature of Energy;" The state has released its draft winter ferry schedule, which residents might find familiar; After two failed attempts last year, a local group advocating to limit cruise tourism in Sitka filed a third petition to put the question out to voters

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In this newscast: A Wisconsin museum has sent a Chilkat robe it's had for the last 80 years to Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau in the hopes of identifying it; The Kodiak Filipino American Association celebrated Philippine Independence Day wiht a basketball tournament; Tongass Voices: Juneau Bike Doctor’s Ken Hill wants to get everybody on a bike

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In this newscast: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced an emergency closure for most near-shore fishing areas around Juneau, Researchers found dangerous levels of paralytic shellfish toxins in Ketchikan, and they are helping researchers learn more about the toxins, And, if you felt that this May was especially rainy, you were right

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