Newscast – Wednesday, July 1, 2026

In this newscast: Juneau's city clerk's office certified a citizen ballot proposition late last week that seeks to raise the city's cap on the local property tax rate; A draft environmental assessment looking at homeporting up to two Coast Guard icebreakers in Juneau is open for public comment; A glacial lake outburst flood on the Taku River south of Juneau crested early Wednesday morning; Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland came to Juneau last weekend as a stop on a tour of her new memoir "A Voice Like Mine"; School districts across Alaska are set to receive up to $115 million in one-time funding this year thanks to high oil prices; In June, the Sitka Sound Science Center's marine debris cleanup program crew found a message in a bottle