Newscast – Friday, July 5, 2024

In this newscast:  The Alaska Supreme Court handed the state a victory last week when it reversed a lower court ruling that had thrown out two key homeschool laws as unconstitutional, but there's a key question the court didn't address: whether Alaska correspondence schools can allow parents to spend public money at private schools; An electrical fire damaged one of three spiral freezers aboard the Northline Seafood floating processing barge over the weekend, leaving the barge at a reduced capacity just ahead of the peak of the region's massive sockeye run

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In this newscast:

The Alaska Supreme Court handed the state a victory last week when it reversed a lower court ruling that had thrown out two key homeschool laws as unconstitutional, but there’s a key question the court didn’t address: whether Alaska correspondence schools can allow parents to spend public money at private schools,
An electrical fire damaged one of three spiral freezers aboard the Northline Seafood floating processing barge over the weekend, leaving the barge at a reduced capacity just ahead of the peak of the region’s massive sockeye run