News of the North

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vetoed additional funding for the state's ferry service that was placed in the budget by the Legislature.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Coast Guard 17th District personnel are scheduled to host the annual Buoy Tender Roundup Aug. 19 through 23.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Mike Dunleavy took issue with media coverage in explaining why he announced by video his decision on the state budget and the oil-wealth fund dividend that will be paid to residents.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Juneau Mayor Beth Weldon talked about the impact of the Governor's budget vetoes on the city and borough while a guest on Action Line.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy announced his decisions on the operating budget sent to him by lawmakers during the second special session during an address Monday afternoon.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The valiant efforts of neighbors and firemen were unable to save the woman.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska group has filed an application with the state for a ballot initiative asking voters to increase taxes on the oil industry, a report said.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Municipal Election just got a lot more interesting.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - A person was transported to the hospital as the result of a residential fire on Dogwood Lane in the Mendenhall Valley Monday evening.

Juneau, Alaska (AP) - Alaska House Speaker Bryce Edgmon says he doesn't see a willingness by the House to appropriate more money toward an oil-wealth fund check for residents without a change to the dividend program going forward.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Juneau Representative Sara Hannan is chagrined at the line items the Governor continued to redline.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Juneau Representative Andi Story was disappointed in the Governor's continued vetoes.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Two suspects were busted at Anchorage's Airport last Thursday after the State Wide Drug Enforcement Interdiction Team there received tips that the pair planned to transport drugs to Nome.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Southeast Alaska Land Trust permanently conserved 4.57 acres of shorefront in Tee Harbor in July.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - John Gregory, 27, allegedly fired three shots at the owner of the bike.

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - Rep. Laddie Shaw of Anchorage and former Alaska Sen. Dave Donley have applied to the Alaska Republican Party to succeed the late Sen. Chris Birch.

Cedar City, Utah (KINY) - A former Thunder Mountain High School and NCAA Division I standout basketball player is moving on to the professional ranks in Europe.

Houston, Alaska (KINY) - Shelly Ingram, 43 of Wasilla had been missing since August 4, Alaska State Troopers said.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Capital City Fire Rescue spent five hours at the scene of a wild fire early Saturday.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Beginning Monday, Aug. 19, Secon and the Alaska Department of Transportation will re-open access to Whittier Street on the waterside of Egan Drive.

Bethel, Alaska (AP) - A school district has a plan to move multiple diesel-filled fuel tanks away from a river after erosion threatens an environmental disaster.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded $100,000 to the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development for fidelity bonds.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - July was Alaska's warmest month ever, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Wrangell, Alaska (KINY) - A wake from the Alaska state ferry Columbia caused a small skiff to capsize last weekend in the Wrangell Narrows near Petersburg.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Sealaska recently formed several Shareholder Participation Committees to gather shareholder feedback and increase opportunities for engagement.

Douglas, Alaska (KINY) - Roadwork will cause considerable delays on Douglas Island at the start of the next work week.

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau Huskies gridiron gang took a loss in the first game of the season, falling to the Service Cougars 58-42 on the road.

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - Tali Birch Kindred, the daughter of the late Sen. Chris Birch, filed a financial disclosure with the State of Alaska and an application with the Alaska Republican Party.

Fairbanks, Alaska (AP) - A linguist renowned for his work with Alaska Native languages has died.

Juneau, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Mike Dunleavy plans to announce his final decisions on the state budget Monday.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau Assembly Monday evening will decide what to advance to voters during the October 1 election on the funding of renovations to Centennial Hall and a new arts and culture center.

Skagway, Alaska (KINY) - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Skagway man has been sentenced for illegally exporting a raw ivory tusk, using falsified forms to have it admitted to Indonesia, and thereafter illegally importing the carved tusk, for sale, back into the United States.

Juneau, Alaska (AP) - Thieves used a stolen van to make off with an ATM from a downtown Juneau hotel.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The chair of the National Council for the Arts is visiting Juneau this week.

Juneau, Alaska (AP) - Alaska's primary provider of real-time marine vessel tracking has lost a portion of its funding to cuts by the governor to the 2020 capital budget.

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - Reports are stating that the Recall Dunleavy campaign released signature numbers from what it calls a "historic effort."

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - The Alaska Republican Party is now tasked with finding a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Chris Birch.

Washington, DC (AP) - Aiming to put his mark on the world map, President Donald Trump has talked to aides and allies about buying Greenland for the U.S.

Metlakatla, Alaska (KINY) - A Metlakatla man has been indicted in Ketchikan after he allegedly threatened a police officer with an axe back in May.

Ketchikan, Alaska (KINY) - The Margaret Creek Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Project decision has been signed.

Juneau, Alaska (AP) - A federal report says a boat that capsized in southwest Alaska last summer, killing a man, was likely overloaded.

Girdwood, Alaska (AP) - A witness told federal investigators he saw an airplane "performing aggressive flight maneuvers" shortly before it crashed earlier this month, killing all four people on board.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Arts does a lot for Alaskans in terms of jobs access and experiences.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Rents fell slightly this year and vacancies increased in Alaska this year.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Bad weather has forced the postponement of the 73rd Annual Golden North Salmon Derby.

Ketchikan, Alaska (KINY) - Alberta Shields, 49, was charged under a new Alaska law contained in House Bill 49.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Attorney General Kevin Clarkson and the Alaska Legal Services Corporation reached an agreement to use $759,000 to provide legal help to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Ketchikan, Alaska (KINY) - Freddie Seludo, 25, faces a felony charge for his alleged role in a heroin shipment.

Eureka, Alaska (KINY) - Friends found the body of a 42-year-old Wasilla man after he didn't return from sheep hunting.

JUNEAU, Alaska — An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard forward-operating location rescued three hypothermic mariners from a skiff in Holtham Inlet, Tuesday.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has denied a request to close an area adjacent to Denali National Park to wolf hunting and trapping.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Mary Anne Carter, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will visit Juneau, Aug. 15-16 and meet with Alaskans to learn more about the local benefits stimulated by support from the Arts Endowment.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Travel Juneau, the destination marketing organization for Alaska’s capital city, announced the elections of its board executive officers for fiscal year 2020.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - A candidate for Juneau school board has withdrawn from the race.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Capital Transit will be making temporary service changes to the Route 6 Riverside Express and Route 4 Mendenhall Valley bus routes.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Juneau City Hall has notified senior citizens whose sales tax exemption card expires at the end of the year to renew their cards.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau School District Board of Education has unanimously approved an indigenous language program for students in the borough.

Fairbanks, Alaska (AP) - Budget cuts by Gov. Mike Dunleavy include funding for the state's Cold Climate Housing Research Center.

Kenai, Alaska (AP) - Country musician Zac Brown has lost a property line dispute involving his home in the Kenai Peninsula.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - A world renowned expert on climate change spoke Tuesday at the Mendenhall Valley library.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The CBJ Airport Board heard an update on construction projects, learned details on new union contracts, and welcomed a new board member Tuesday night.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - A retired University of Alaska Anchorage anthropology professor accused of decades of sexual misconduct is contesting the use of pseudonyms by multiple women who are suing him — a move the plaintiffs say amounts to intimidation.

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - The University of Alaska and Gov. Mike Dunleavy have reached an agreement on a multi-year compact that preserves $110 million in state funding for the university for Fiscal Year 2020.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he will not veto funding for Head Start and other early childhood learning programs from the budget recently sent to him by lawmakers.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - City and Borough of Juneau Manager Rorie Watt continued to bemoan gubernatorial reductions to the Legislature's spending plans while a guest on Action Line.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Jakob Aguilar, 20, allegedly stole a Samsung tablet from a residence on Nowell Avenue.

Akiachak, Alaska (KINY) - Alaska State Troopers and Tribal Police teamed up to crack the case.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Leaders of two Alaska groups fighting for a full Permanent Fund Dividend are arguing Gov. Mike Dunleavy should not veto the Legislature's dividend payment.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Five people have filed for two seats on the Juneau School Board and there are exactly four candidates for four Assembly seats.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau Police officers involved in the shooting of a suspect on the morning of August 4 are identified as Hannah Malone and Thomas McGrann.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau School Board conducts its first meetings of the 2020-2021 school year Tuesday evening.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he will support funding for a program that provides cash benefits to lower-income older Alaskans.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau School District is gearing up for the new school year.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska scientists say the chances of a polar bear encounter have increased after research reveals the bears are arriving onshore earlier and staying on land longer, a report said.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's governor is seeking to tighten the rules for food stamp recipients, officials said.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - It went down to the wire as the final key handed out among ten finalists unlocked the new Subaru.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau Glacier Valley Rotary Club's biggest fundraiser of the year, one with over $10,000 in prizes, was held Saturday at Twin Lakes.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Office of Law Enforcement in Alaska are encouraging all fishermen to become familiar with laws before going fishing.

Ketchikan, Alaska (AP) - Alaska investigators say a pilot told his family the weather might be bad before his single-engine plane was found crashed.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The City and Borough of Juneau filed an amended annexation petition for formal technical review with the Local Boundary Commission on Thursday, Aug. 8.

Seward, Alaska (AP) - Alaska State Troopers say three missing children have been found safe with their mother, who was arrested along with the children's father.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - A 21-year-old Indiana man charged with masterminding the death of a developmentally disabled Anchorage woman has pleaded not guilty to five murder counts.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The University of Alaska Southeast is offering Tlingit language and Northwest Coast Arts classes this fall.

Seward, Alaska (AP) - Alaska State Troopers say three children were wrongfully removed from a foster home in Seward, and their mother is also missing.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - State lawmakers and the Alaskan public are now awaiting the Governor's action the revise operating budget crafted during the second special session.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached three settlements with Coeur Alaska, Inc., over discharge violations at the Kensington Mine.

EAGLE RIVER, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska police department has removed a social media post making light of a man asking officers to arrest and hold him in jail for public nudity, a report said.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The success of compost relies on the individual and a desire to help the environment and free up precious landfill space.

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - As of Thursday, 18,198 signatures have been received since the signature-gathering effort kicked off on Aug. 1

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vetoed more than $30 million from Alaska's capital budget, including $10 million for grants for new addiction treatment centers.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Alaska Marine Highway System has returned to regularly scheduled ferry service throughout coastal Alaska and to ports in Prince Rupert and Bellingham.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - The Alaska Division of Forestry and Department of Natural Resources has again suspended burning in two regions because of wildfire danger.

Juneau Alaska (KINY) - A small brush fire was reported Thursday in 19000 block of Glacier Highway.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Another subject was the proposed move of the Glory Hall from downtown to the valley.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - Republican Alaska state Sen. Chris Birch has died. He was 68.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - SEACC, the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, is waiting for the Forest Service to issue its draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Alaska Specific Roadless Rule.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) researchers Dr. John Harley and Dr. Matthew Pawlus have been studying shellfish toxicity to help create a safer environment in Southeast Alaska.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) Fire crews were dispatched at 3:30 AM to a residence in the 4000 block of Dogwood Lane.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nine conservation groups on Wednesday sued the U.S. Interior Department over its latest proposed land trade that could lead to a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska.

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police said Wednesday they believe two fugitives suspected of killing a North Carolina woman and her Australian boyfriend as well as another man have been found dead in dense brush in northern Manitoba.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - A diver has died in waters near Glacier Bay National Park.

Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - The Cook Inlet Regional Corporation Board of Directors has voted to get behind the recall of Gov. Mike Dunleavy.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Thursday is new student registration day at neighborhood schools. High school orientation is taking place at JDHS this week and TMHS next week.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Firemen got the call at 1:30 a.m. to a commercial building with garages.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - Alaska social service providers are pleading with Gov. Mike Dunleavy to forego vetoes in the latest budget bill sent to his desk.

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - An Anchorage man walking his dog found a loaded semi-automatic rifle along a popular bike trail.

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Tuesday was the 74th anniversary of the atomic bomb strike in Hiroshima, Japan that led to the end of World War II.

The House voted 32-7 to send to the senate fast track legislation that provides 24 million for the marine highway system to keep running and 45 million for medicaid.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal study says more shrubs growing on Arctic tundra likely will have little effect on the abundance of most bird species until the vegetation grows tall.