KRBD Evening Report

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.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s school board agrees to give the local federally-recognized tribe input on hiring — A Prince of Wales man is given 99 years for a 2016 murder — and a look at the Palmer Project, a proposed large-scale mine north of Haines. All that and more coming up.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Alaska lawmakers hear about tribal compacting at a hearing with experts — Plans are underway to repurpose a 50-year-old hunting cabin near Sitka into a visitor venue — and Sitkan Pamela Ash uses dolls to straddle the line between beautiful and disturbing in her 3-D art.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Former mayor and city council member Lew Williams says he’s stepping down — Ketchikan’s school board will consider an agreement that would give tribal leaders more of a say in the hiring process — and some young scientists in Metlakatla are monitoring salmon streams to better understand the future they’ll inherit.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: State officials want to close a state trooper dispatch center in Ketchikan, a move that local officials warn could have dire consequences — The Alaska Permanent Fund may not have enough cash to pay for state government and PFDs at some point in the next decade — and a new weather station in Sitka gives forecasters a chance to better predict landslides.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s old firehouse will again be the subject of a live auction — Poor king salmon returns are predicted for the Stikine and Taku rivers — and the Alaska Marine Highway System adds stops in Kake as the Aurora heads for layup.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Local shops see mixed results on Black Friday — The parents of a Juneau teen who died in an alcohol-related crash speaks out — and Alaska sees its first vaping-related illness.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: The leader of Ketchikan Community Chorus will step away after more than 50 years with the choir — Ketchikan’s city council will consider budget transfers and a water engineering contract — and a group of researchers and marine pilots team up to address ships colliding with whales.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s borough assembly votes down a call for new marijuana regulations — PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center’s leader says he’ll step down — and a Prince of Wales Island fisherman pleads guilty to illegally harvesting nearly four tons of sea cucumber.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: An electrical fire leaves a Ketchikan house uninhabitable — Ketchikan police arrest a Seward man suspected of murder — and a look at a unique piece of architectural history hiding in plain sight in Sitka.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan’s borough clerk is named Alaska’s Clerk of the Year, the assembly on Monday may begin crafting local rules for marijuana businesses, and a proposed ballot initiative would make Alaska elections very different.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan City Council throws its support behind the proposed rollback of the Roadless Rule — Ketchikan’s borough assembly says no to a proposed gun range — and amid a Congressional investigation, state officials say they spent grant money appropriately.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Rains lift Ketchikan out of a sixteen-month drought — Ketchikan police find over a million dollars in drugs in a bank safe-deposit box — and local leaders gather in Anchorage to finish up a new plan for online sales tax collection.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: A house fire in Ketchikan sparked by a candle leaves a family pet dead — Ketchikan’s City Council will consider whether to support a full exemption from the Roadless Rule Monday — and marine engineers warn that if the state ferry Malaspina is tied up cold early next year, its next trip south could be its last.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Students from southern Southeast learn about teamwork and robotics in a recent LEGO robotics competition — Sealaska announces its biggest dividend in decades — and some funny money has been circulating around Wrangell.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: A house fire in Craig leaves one dead — Statewide violent crime ticked up last year — and a historic U.S. Forest Service boat is heading to Wrangell.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Managers and staff at a local mobile home park are charged with violating drinking and wastewater regulations — Protestors gather outside Sitka’s Forest Service office to support the Roadless Rule — and from Alaska’s Energy Desk, a look at what the recent drought means for Metlakatla.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: The Forest Service sees more resistance to exempting the Tongass from the Roadless Rule as some Sitkans express frustration with the process — The state ferry Tazlina will make up some gaps in ferry service this winter — and some federal lawmakers want to know why Alaska used federal dollars that usually pay for wildfire prevention to work on the Roadless Rule.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Three Pioneer Home residents, including one from Ketchikan, are suing the state over drastic fee hikes — Alcohol regulators vote against a rule change that would have limited events at breweries and distilleries — and Southeast Alaska’s winter king salmon season is off to a better start this year than last.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: With the Leconte in layup, some in Southeast want the state ferry Tazlina to make up for reduced sailings — Forest Service officials faced another skeptical crowd at a Roadless Rule presentation in Petersburg — and the story of a former NBA star teaching kids and adults about Native culture and the endangered Haida language.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Drought conditions improve statewide as Southeast finally sheds its last patch of “severe drought” — Disruptions on the emergency VHF channel 16 continue without an end in sight — and Petersburg High School is getting an automated camera system in its gymnasium.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan hunters’ bag limit for deer on Prince of Wales Island will stay at two — Wrangell’s hospital is funding training for local community members — and the story of one Sitka woodworker trying to build a boat out of Tongass lumber.