Newscast – Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025
Update: 2025-11-21
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In this newscast:
- Earlier this week, the Juneau Assembly approved spending more than $320,000 — made up of mostly grant funding from the FAA — to purchase an amphibious wetland rescue vehicle for the Juneau International Airport,
- Starting today, Juneau residents won’t have to pay local sales tax on essential food and residential utilities. Voters in Juneau approved exempting them during this fall’s recent municipal election,
- Researchers and community members gathered in Yakutat late last month, in northern Southeast Alaska, to discuss local geohazards, like landslide-induced tsunamis, and how they can be addressed
- Congress has nullified the Biden administration’s resource plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
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