KINY 9:00am - 10:35am University of Alaska Chancellor Karen Carey Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - University of Alaska Southeast Chancellor Karen Carey had several items to share during the KINY Morning Show Monday.
One involves an important hearing today with the Board of Regents as it takes public testimony from 4 to 5 p.m. Call 1-866‑831‑8713 to testify
The hearing is in advance of the board s meeting February 25 and 26.
Tuesday s public hearing and the board meeting can be live-streamed via the regents web site at www.alaska.edu/bor/
The chancellor said they were presented a check for $12,000 from the Southeast Conference during last week s Mid Session Summit that will be used for scholarships.
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Alaska State Troopers have released additional information on the bear attack Saturday near Chilkoot Lake, about ten miles northwest of Haines.
Juneau, Alaska KINY) - Progress was made in breaking the logjam in the State House of Representatives on selecting a leader and organizing a majority caucus on Day 17 of the session.
KINY 9:00am - 10:35am AUBURN, Maine (AP) An attorney for a former Maine resident who is facing trial for an Alaska killing is trying to exclude evidence due to misinformation from police.
Steven Downs, formerly of Auburn, was charged for the 1993 rape and killing of Sophie Sergie at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Authorities arrested Downs in Maine in 2019 after the case sat dormant for years.
The second day of hearings in the case took place Tuesday, and Alaska State Police Trooper Randel McPherron said some of the information contained in affidavits used to secure search warrants was false. The Sun Journal reported McPherron said he included the incorrect information in his police report unintentionally.
Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services announced today that an Anchorage resident who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection last month was infected with a variant strain of the virus known as B.1.1.7, which was originally detected in September in the United Kingdom.