KRBD Evening Report

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s school board debates active shooter curriculum — Officials from coastal communities make the case for Alaska’s ferries in Juneau — and sometimes, the state of Alaska sues… itself.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: The Army Corps of Engineers okays the proposed cruise ship dock on Ward Cove — Three companies submit sealed proposals for downtown Ketchikan port improvements — and freezing weather bursts pipes in Ketchikan and Saxman.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s borough assembly mulls food trucks and gun ranges — Ketchikan’s school board will consider an updated vaccination policy — and a Washington state environmental group sues Alaska over its management of Chinook salmon.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Saxman’s primary reservoir freezes, prompting water restrictions —Ketchikan’s interim superintendent talks about her vision for the future — and Ketchikan’s borough assembly will consider food trucks and gun ranges.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s interim superintendent sits down to talk about her record as she looks poised to take the permanent job — Ketchikan’s school board hears about potential changes to graduation requirements — and water usage in Wrangell and Ketchikan is up significantly as residents run their taps to prevent freezes.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: A company is thinking about a possible natural gas terminal north of Prince Rupert — Alaska’s population declined in 2019 for the third straight year — and some Alaska Native Corporation shareholders face fines over criticism on social media.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan's school board will discuss tightening vaccine requirements — Sitka School District will crowdsource its strategic planning — and Kodiak residents prepare for months without ferry service.

What a reduced ferry schedule means for basketball teams in Southeast — The Katlian Bay Road project remains on track despite winter weather — and regulators vote against tightening restrictions on boat rentals for halibut fishing.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s borough mayor wants to build a 40-acre park near Ward Lake — Friends and family in Haines remember two men killed in an avalanche — and a multimillion-dollar makeover for Sitka’s downtown main street is back on… maybe.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Fishermen unite against a proposed federal rule to designate Southeast as critical habitat for humpback whales — Ketchikan welcomes its first baby of 2020 — and Sitka students got their first snow day today. Not to be outdone, Ketchikan’s school district cancelled classes for tomorrow.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Friends and colleagues remember longtime city official Lew Williams III, who died Saturday — a suspected drug dealer arrested in Ketchikan in November now faces federal charges — and seven Ketchikan students win scholarships to attend arts camps later this year.

Ketchikan’s borough assembly won’t object to a proposed marijuana café north of town — the Coast Guard is still struggling to restore reliable relays for VHF channel 16 — and a look at how a community with no domestic violence shelter takes care of those in need.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan sees more than a foot of snow in its first big winter storm — Sitka’s assembly opposes a proposed rule that would create special protections for humpback whales in Southeast — and we look at how city planners balance the rights of homeowners and businesses in a tourism-focused economy.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Residents pack city council chambers and ask the council to maintain control of the downtown cruise ship docks — Ketchikan’s borough assembly will consider an application for on-site marijuana consumption — and, in another installment of CoastAlaska’s Shelter Series, we look at seasonal housing in Haines.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: New information indicates a trooper’s cell phone was not used to report an arson threat, a look back on top stories in Ketchikan for 2019 and a new guide offering medication assisted treatments for opioid addictions is released.

A Ketchikan woman is behind bars after allegedly setting a garage on fire near Refuge Cove — we preview Thursday’s Ketchikan City Council meeting — and, for the first installment in CoastAlaska’s Shelter series, we explore liveaboards. All that and more coming up.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s school board will open negotiations with the now-interim superintendent for the permanent job — a Harvard senior from Ketchikan has a novel plan for bipartisan climate change legislation — and Juneau libraries get new bathroom signs in both English and Tlingit.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: A new study says killer whales might be behind the declining size of king salmon — tens of thousands of non-native salmon escape after a fire at a B.C. fish farm — and KFSK’s Angela Denning takes a ride on a new bus for seniors and the disabled in provided by Petersburg’s local tribe. All that and more coming up.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: State attorneys want a Ketchikan judge to dismiss a class-action lawsuit challenging rate hikes at the state-run Pioneer Home — neighborhood groups get together in Juneau to talk tourism — and what a Supreme Court case from Hawaii means for the Palmer mine project near Haines.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s heavy-load airport ferry will be out of service through the middle of January — the governor’s proposed budget leaves some communities without ferry service for up to six months — and opposition to the Donlin Gold prospect in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is gathering momentum. We're off Dec. 24 and 25, but we'll be back Thursday, Dec. 26.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Property taxes in Ketchikan will go up next year — Alaska Marine Highway System cutbacks take their toll on AMHS crewmembers — and Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s staff outlines several scenarios to balance the state budget. All that and more coming up.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s city council will consider its 2020 budget at Thursday’s meeting — Wrangell is set to lose its Fish and Game office in the governor’s budget — and a 171-year-old cathedral in Sitka gets a fresh coat of paint and some tender loving care.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Underwater rock blasting got underway today in an effort to remove a rocky pinnacle on the seabed — Ketchikan’s borough assembly won’t protest a liquor license in Saxman — and ahead of tonight’s midnight deadline to file comments on the Roadless Rule, environmental groups try to get the word out.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: The regional agency that produces much of Ketchikan’s power won’t raise rates, at least not yet — Planned Parenthood sues to challenge a state law that prohibits nurse practitioners and physician assistants from performing abortions — and the last advancing glacier in the Juneau icefield has made an about-face and is now retreating.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s borough assembly will consider whether to protest a liquor license application in Saxman — Authorities arrest three people after finding meth in a package bound for Prince of Wales Island — and there might simply be too many deer in the Sitka area. All that and more coming up.