The nation's sole heavy icebreaker arrived in Antarctica on Monday, following a nearly three-month transit from Seattle; COVID case counts in St. Paul appear to be going down following the island’s largest surge since the start of the pandemic; and the 30-year-old Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was passed to give tribes a legal avenue for the return of ancestral remains and some cultural objects, but many remains and objects remain in storage and collections of federal agencies and museums.
Hope McKenney reported for KUCB from 2019 until 2022. She was KUCB's news director starting in 2021.