KTOO News Update
710 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom in Juneau.
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Newscast – Friday, April 26, 2024
April 27, 2024 01:11 - 51.4 MBIn this newscast: A ban on social media accounts for children under 14 passed the Alaska House; The Alaska House passed a bill that would put more guardrails on the property assessment process in the state; More Alaskans died of opioid overdose last year than ever before; An Oregon man convicted of murdering an Anchorage teenager more than four decades ago has been sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Newscast – Thursday, April, 25, 2024
April 26, 2024 01:25 - 51 MBIn this newscast: Trident Seafood’s Ketchikan processing plant was officially transferred to Silver Bay Seafoods. A new Alaska Senate bill tightens residency requirements on hunting and fishing licenses. A rare bowhead whale was spotted in Sitka.
Newscast – Wednesday, April 24, 2024
April 25, 2024 00:20 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: A new campus slated for Juneau will be dedicated to immersing children in Alaska Native culture and languages; An Indigenous-led group, the Herring Protectors, received an unexpected contribution -- two parcels of land on an island outside of Sitka; House lawmakers removed an amendment from a bill that would have raised the age of consent from 16 to 18 in some situations
Newscast – Tuesday, April 23, 2024
April 24, 2024 00:42 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Alaska's Division of Forestry released its plan for selling timber in Southeast Alaska for the next five years and an environmental group in the region is frustrated with the public process; A recent paper in Nature attempts to set a new timeframe of when humans first appeared in Southeast Alaska, but for Southeast Alaska Natives, it's just one piece of a much bigger puzzle
Newscast – Monday, April 22, 2024
April 23, 2024 00:47 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau is creating a task force to tackle if -- and how -- they should be regulated; Juneau's emergency warming shelter closed last week and the city doesn't have a campground for people to move to this year; Tongass Voices: Holly Huber on what it takes to be Miss Alaska Volunteer
Newscast – Friday, April 19, 2024
April 19, 2024 16:37 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast – The Tongass National Forest has grown, with the addition of 5 acres of important fish and wildlife habitat Earlier this month, the Denver Post reported that Lingit tribal members have been requesting cultural items back from the Denver Art Museum in Colorado for years – to no avail
Newscast – Thursday, April 18, 2024
April 18, 2024 16:16 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Scientists and Alaska Native leaders released a report this week claiming plastic waste in the Arctic is contaminating essential resources of Indigenous communities Khalil English shares his research on silverweed, a seemingly inconspicuous plant with deep roots in Pacific Northwest history
Newscast – Wednesday, April 17, 2024
April 17, 2024 17:53 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Wrangell’s Nolan Center hosted a screening of Blue Ticket on Monday. It’s a film of a play that KTOO documented back in 2019. The play’s author, Maureen Longworth, documented how gay men in Juneau were exiled from the city in the 1960s. The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community is a collective of Indigenous…
Newscast – Tuesday, April 16, 2024
April 17, 2024 00:40 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau planning commission agreed to let an outdoor food court expand into the empty lot that once housed the demolished Elks Hall building; The National Native Boarding School Healing Coalition will conduct interviews to document abuse at boarding schools; Alaska Public Media reporter Eric Stone on the Superior Court ruling that found a key benefit to families who choose certain types of homeschooling unconstitutional, and what it means
Newscast – Monday, April 15, 2024
April 16, 2024 00:41 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Peter Pan Seafood announced Friday that it was ceasing operations; A partisan brawl is about to erupt in Congress over the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Alaska's US senators are seemingly split over it; Tongass Voices: Jeremy Kane on the philosophy of bowl-making
Newscast – Friday, March 12, 2024
April 13, 2024 01:01 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Cancer patients in Juneau who need gynecological surgery no longer have to leave town to get it; The Alaska House of Representatives passed its $6 billion operating budget today
Newscast – Thursday, April 11, 2024
April 12, 2024 00:47 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: City officials in Juneau have proposed a municipal spending plan for next year that slightly raises the property tax rate; Many Alaskans have to travel a long way for certain healthcare treatments, but a bill in the state House aims to close that distance by expanding the list of providers Alaskans can see remotely; And from Wednesday night's Alaska Folk Fest mainstage: Costa's Poets Thieves and Liars
Newscast – Wednesday, April 10, 2024
April 11, 2024 00:39 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: A group of activists in Juneau filed paperwork in the hopes of putting a question on the 2024 local election ballot about whether the city should begin enforcing "Ship-free Saturdays"; The Sitka Assembly is calling for the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium to reconsider a decision it made to close the home health department; A taste of the 49th annual Alaska Folk Festival
Newscast – Tuesday, April 9, 2024
April 10, 2024 00:39 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Norwegian Bliss docked in Juneau this morning, marking the beginning of the 2024 cruise ship season; State education officials continue to dispute the federal government's claim that Alaska didn't fund schools equitably during the pandemic; Athletes from across Alaska and some from the Lower 48 came to Juneau to compete in the seventh annual Traditional Games
Newscast – Monday, April 8, 2024
April 09, 2024 00:41 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Some projects the city plans to fund with marine passenger fees are being contested by cruise line officials; A look ahead at this year's cruise season, which starts tomorrow; Tongass Voices: Joey Scoggins and Khrystal Brouillette-Gillam and the Juneau Hostel
Newscast – Friday, April 5, 2024
April 06, 2024 00:47 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Involvement in traditional games and Native Youth Olympics are growing across Alaska and two coaches from Juneau's team visited Petersburg to show students what these sports are all about; Legendary Juneau musician Buddy Tabor died in 2012, and a group of Southeast Alaska artists are working to make his music available on streaming services
Newscast – Thursday, April 4, 2024
April 05, 2024 00:38 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Students from Juneau and across Alaska walked out of school today to protest Gov. Mike Dunleavy's education funding veto last month; Curious Juneau: the state of fast food in Juneau; State lawmakers got some new details Tuesday about the federal government's partial approval of a document outlining federally funded transportation projects
Newscast – Wednesday, April 3, 2024
April 04, 2024 00:45 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: This cruise season, money collected from cruise passengers could be set aside to help Juneau's tourism businesses cut down on fossil-fuels; A group of students in Sitka is taking a class on navigating the Federal Subsistence Board process; Democrats in the U.S. House almost always vote in line with party leaders, but Congresswoman Mary Peltola has a different voting record
Newscast – Tuesday, April 2, 2024
April 03, 2024 00:55 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau has negotiated a conceptual agreement with cruise lines that could limit the number of daily passengers that come off their ships and into Juneau; It's also moving forward with a plan to relocate its seasonal campground to a different site further from downtown; The House Finance Committee is working through its latest draft of the state budget, after lawmakers rejected a roughly $3,500 PFD Thursday; The Southeast Regional Health Consortium is ...
Newscast – Monday, April 1, 2024
April 02, 2024 00:29 - 4.67 MBIn this newscast: Tongass Voices: Shiggoap Alfie Price is a language learner and teacher who believes in using the power of community to strengthen the language revitalization movement; The Alaska Legislature has relaunched a caucus focused on providing support to children from birth to adulthood
Newscast – Friday, March 29, 2024
March 29, 2024 22:36 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: A new letter from the federal government says Alaska's education department owes almost $30 million to four school districts; Three airlines are adding nonstop flights from Anchorage to new destinations this summer
Newscast – Thursday, March 28, 2024
March 29, 2024 01:00 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: This week is Alaska's tsunami preparedness week and one kind of tsunami might become more common because of human-caused climate change, and experts say we are not prepared for it; Sleetmute's school is at risk of collapse and the community is worried that could mean the end of the Upper Kuskokwim River village as well
Newscast – Wednesday, March 27, 2024
March 28, 2024 00:43 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Kensington Gold Mine near Juneau has reported a spill of more than 100,000 gallons of mine waste that happened back in January; This month, the Biden administration approved a disaster declaration to Wrangell's tribal government. This is the first such declaration for an Alaska tribe; Researchers at NOAA are refining a method to collect data about what fish were present in an area up to two days after those fish have moved on
Newscast – Tuesday, March 26, 2024
March 27, 2024 00:58 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Monday, Juneau celebrated the Hindu holiday Holi in the streets with Bollywood dancing and throwing colors in the air; A Ketchikan-raised master weaver is helping to create a pipeline of weaving teachers through a first-of-its-kind apprenticeship program in Sitka; The Alaska House of Representatives took a step towards raising the state's age of consent from 16 to 18 years old
Newscast – Monday, March 25, 2024
March 26, 2024 00:08 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: Alaska author Lily Tuzroyluke was recognized as one of USA Today's women of the year earlier this month; Tongass Voices: Producer for dozens of artists around Southeast Alaska, Joshua Laboca, and his 9-year-old daughter Harmony also produce their own music together
Newscast – Friday, March 22, 2024
March 23, 2024 00:22 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: How much money Alaska’s public schools will get from the state is up in the air. That’s after lawmakers fell one vote short of overriding Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a funding boost and reform package; A regional working group in Southeast Alaska wants to create a landslide warning system - a tool that will monitor the region’s hazardous weather and warn residents of potential risks of slides. Sitka already has a system, but the new working group is brainstorming ways to s...
Newscast – Thursday, March 21, 2024
March 22, 2024 00:47 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Alaska has submitted a first-of-its-kind plan to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions to the federal government; Curious Juneau: donating to thrift stores can be a challenge in Juneau. Anna Canny looks into why.
Newscast – Wednesday, March 20, 2024
March 20, 2024 22:55 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The 75th annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament is underway this week, with more than 500 people from across Southeast Alaska playing or spectating nearly 50 games; It's more and more difficult for Alaska prisoners to win discretionary parole, and advocates and parolees went to the state Capitol to make the case that the parole board is considering the wrong factors
Newscast – Tuesday, March 19, 2024
March 20, 2024 00:25 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Around 100 people faced the Alaska State Capitol last night chanting in support of a ceasefire in Gaza and in opposition of Gov. Dunleavy's proposed bill that would crack down on unpermitted street protests; The Alaska Legislature voted Monday to sustain Gov. Dunleavy's veto of a bipartisan education bill that would have significantly increased funding for public schools; In Ketchikan, the borough assembly members are considering changing the name of two of their schools. Th...
Newscast – Monday, March 18, 2024
March 19, 2024 00:59 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: A technology that typically listens for volcanic eruptions and nuclear explosions will now be used to keep track of avalanches in Juneau; Tongass Voices: Nimmy Philips came to Juneau as an engineer, but 3 years ago, she decided to buy a restaurant. Now she applies her engineer's precision to her recipes
Newscast – Friday, March 15, 2024
March 16, 2024 00:04 - 13.9 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau school board unanimously approved a budget for the next school year, which relies on school closures and staff reductions to address a nearly $10 million budget deficit. Juneau Animal Rescue is rehoming 16 tarantulas, a ball python and a pair of bearded dragons. KCAW reporter Katherine Rose visits an early-morning…
Newscast – Thursday, March 14, 2024
March 15, 2024 00:36 - 14 MBIn this newscast: A search for Alaska herring at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo, Japan. Money from the bipartisan education funding package does not pay for the building maintenance and repairs that some rural Alaska public schools desperately need.
Newscast – Wednesday, March 13, 2024
March 14, 2024 00:12 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau School Board has decided to stick with its previously adopted school closure plan; Humpback whales are often considered a conservation success story. The species was near extinction just 50 years ago — today, tens of thousands of humpbacks call the North Pacific home. But climate change may be stunting the species’ recovery. A new study using artificial intelligence shows that Alaska’s humpback population has dropped more than 30% in a decade; A hydroelectric pro...
Newscast – Tuesday, March 12, 2024
March 13, 2024 01:04 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau School District’s current school closure plan would have it vacate three city-owned buildings: the district office on Glacier Avenue, the Marie Drake building and Floyd Dryden Middle School. Now, the city is eyeing those buildings as possible new homes for City Hall; A little-known federal agency called Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has a big role in regulating nearly 7,000 miles of coastline in Alaska. Last week, they met with KTOO reporter Anna Canny, who as...
Newscast – Tuesday, Mach 12, 2024
March 13, 2024 01:04 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau School District’s current school closure plan would have it vacate three city-owned buildings: the district office on Glacier Avenue, the Marie Drake building and Floyd Dryden Middle School. Now, the city is eyeing those buildings as possible new homes for City Hall; A little-known federal agency called Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has a big role in regulating nearly 7,000 miles of coastline in Alaska. Last week, they met with KTOO reporter Anna Canny, who as...
Newscast – Monday, March 11, 2024
March 12, 2024 00:44 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau School Board will reconsider a school closure plan it approved last month to help address the district's budget deficit; Tongass Voices: Jocelyn Clark was born in Juneau but has spent decades in Korea, studying a 1500 year old folk instrument; KCAW's Katherine Rose reports from Japan, where she's looking into the industry and culture of herring
Newscast – Friday, March. 8, 2024
March 09, 2024 02:11 - 4.67 MBIn this newscast: A majority of Alaskans support a large increase to state education funding, according to a new poll from the progressive group Data for Progress; KTOO's Curious Juneau segment explores the original Lingit names for Juneau's mountains; Leading Alaska legislators said on Tuesday that there is little appetite for spending from savings to pay a super-sized Permanent Fund dividend this year.
Newscast – Thursday, March 7, 2024
March 08, 2024 00:31 - 14 MBIn this newscast: Most property assessments in Juneau didn't change much from last year, according to preliminary data from the city; Alaska has the lowest percentage of high school seniors who've submitted the FAFSA so far; The Southeast Alaska Land Trust says the National Park Service extended part of Sitka's sea walk into a protected area
Newscast – Wednesday, March 6, 2024
March 07, 2024 01:59 - 4.7 MBIn this newscast: The four-legged search and rescue team at SEADOGS got some practice in urban disaster searches in a simulated disaster in Lemon Creek this weekend; A Ketchikan-born Lingit artist has been selected to visually represent this year's Celebration; Tongass Voices: Axel Brouillette-Gillam us a co-owner of Cosmik Debriz, a vintage Alaskana shop that began from his interests in thrifting and fashion
Newscast – Monday, March 4, 2024
March 05, 2024 02:05 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Southeast Alaska's deputy forester for the US Forest Service said its time for the Tongass National Forest to update their management plan; Juneau's Augustus Brown Pool is reopening after nearly a year of renovations; Southeast Alaska Native leaders and Chilkat weavers welcomed home a very old Chilkat robe last week
Newscast – Friday, March 1, 2024
March 02, 2024 02:07 - 4.41 MBIn this newscast: Many residents in both Juneau and Haines saw their property assessments jump in value last year. Now, an Alaska Senate bill would require state accreditation for tax assessors and prevent municipalities from raising the assessed value of properties during an appeal process; A bill working its way through the state House could have big implications for reproductive rights. The measure from Big Lake Republican Rep. Kevin McCabe would redefine the terms “person” and “life” in s...
Newscast – Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024
March 01, 2024 01:44 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: An Alaska Native group says the Canadian government is violating their human rights, by greenlighting several large gold mines in British Columbia; Another episode of Tongass Voices: T McInnis -- the person behind one of Juneau's favorite drag kings Tyquan -- gave KTOO a tour of the Juneau Drag closet
Newscast – Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
February 29, 2024 01:48 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: Juneau School District leaders say an education funding increase approved by the Legislature this week would cut its budget deficit in half; Employees of the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium in Sitka have threatened to organize, following a recent rollback of their benefits; The Nude and Rude Revue's burlesque troupe is on its first statewide tour since 2019
Newscast – Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024
February 28, 2024 01:52 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: A blocked water line cut off running water to hundreds of Kotzebue residents earlier this month, and extra energy used to prevent water lines from freezing lead to the city running out of diesel fuel; Last week the Iditarod disqualified former champion Brent Sass from this year's race following accusations that he sexually assaulted multiple women
Newscast – Monday, Feb. 26, 2024
February 27, 2024 01:51 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: More than 100 people gathered in downtown Juneau Saturday afternoon for a rally to urge city and state officials in Alaska to support a ceasefire in Gaza; Gov. Mike Dunleavy cast doubt on the future of a bill that would boost state education funding and implement other reforms on Monday; The Mat-Su School Board has decided to remove a romance novel from library circulation after complaints that it is inappropriate for children; A diesel fuel spill at a fuel storage facility ...
Newscast – Friday, Feb. 23, 2024
February 24, 2024 02:10 - 51.3 MBThe Alaska House passed a wide-ranging, bipartisan education bill late Thursday night, federal education officials say Alaska owes millions in state funding to Juneau, Kenai and North Slope schools, city leaders say residents aren't applying for grants to promote the construction of mother-in-law apartments and the Anchorage School District reversed course Tuesday night, opting to keep elementary art classes that were slated to be cut in order to balance the budget.
Newscast – Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024
February 23, 2024 01:00 - 14 MBIn this newscast: Juneau lawmakers introduce bills that would double the amount of disaster aid Alaska can give homeowners; Juneau residents have until March 25 to give feedback on marine passenger fee project proposals; Dancers in Wrangell celebrate Elizabeth Peratrovich Day with a televised performance
Newscast – Friday, Feb. 8, 2024
February 10, 2024 02:04 - 14 MBIn this newscast: Expanded Medicaid coverage for Alaska mothers. An interview with Juneau’s new police chief Derek Bos. Another winter storm warning for Juneau and the northern panhandle.
Newscast – Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024
February 09, 2024 02:03 - 4.64 MBIn this newscast: Juneau will soon have new maps of its tidal wetlands; Gov. Mike Dunleavy is casting doubt on the future of a bill that would move many public sector workers back to a pension system; Developers of Sitka's landslide warning system visited Petersburg to explore creating one there
Newscast – Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024
February 08, 2024 01:42 - 4.63 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau School District is facing a nearly $8 million deficit for this school year. District leaders are considering closing or rearranging schools and cutting staff; Ferry trips across the Gulf of Alaska likely won't happen, as the AMHS is cutting back on summer service; Marilyn Lumba is the director of nursing at the Juneau Pioneer Home and she's the subject of the first Tongass Voices.