KTOO News Update
756 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom in Juneau.
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Newscast – Friday, July 5, 2024
July 06, 2024 01:00 - 4.67 MBIn 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 ca...
Newscast – Wednesday, July 3, 2024
July 04, 2024 01:00 - 4.76 MBIn this newscast: Ice is melting faster in the Juneau Icefield than expected; Juneau's former downtown homeless shelter has been converted into seven affordable housing units; A Canadian company is getting close to the permitting stage to reopen a gold mine at the headwaters of a river that flows into Southeast Alaska, and the British Columbia government is downplaying their responsibility to consult with Alaska tribes
Newscast – Tuesday, July 2, 2024
July 03, 2024 01:00 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Little Mermaid Beauty Salon in Douglas closed for good last weekend after 60 years; A researcher with the Pacific Northwest Research Station is recording connections between people and subsistence foods for a new project with the National Forest Service
Newscast – Monday, July 1, 2024
July 02, 2024 00:59 - 4.67 MBIn this newscast: Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed the state's $12.2 billion operating budget Friday; Last week, a federal judge in Anchorage ruled that tribes in Alaska can put land into trust; Tongass Voices: Sakoon Donedin Jackson on re-indigenizing her life
Newscast – Friday, June 28, 2024
June 29, 2024 01:00 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Biden Administration finalized a decision blocking the controversial Ambler Road project; In the last 14 months, four men have died while working in the oil fields on the North Slope. Before that, the area hadn't seen a death in about five years
Newscast – Thursday, June 27, 2024
June 28, 2024 01:00 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: A high-stakes battle over a popular form of homeschooling reached the Alaska Supreme Court today; Curious Juneau: Juneau is a windy city. So why don’t we have more wind turbines?
Newscast – Wednesday, June 26, 2024
June 27, 2024 01:00 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: Supports of Alaska's ranked-choice voting were in court Monday in an attempt to disqualify a ballot measure that would repeal the election reforms voters adopted in 2020; A Juneau artist's family is donating hundreds of photos of King Island taken in the early 1950s before the residents were removed from the remote Bering Sea island; An audio postcard from Dillingham's boatyard as fishing crews get ready for the Bristol Bay salmon season
Newscast – Tuesday, June 25, 2024
June 26, 2024 00:21 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: Recent Juneau high school graduate and soon-to-be collegiate swimmer PJ Foy competed in the U.S. Olympic trials in Indianapolis on Friday; Last week, a group of Juneau middle schoolers got a crash course in renewable electricity through a summer camp called the “Nature of Energy;" The state has released its draft winter ferry schedule, which residents might find familiar; After two failed attempts last year, a local group advocating to limit cruise tourism in Sitka filed a ...
Newscast – Monday, June 24, 2024
June 25, 2024 01:00 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: A Wisconsin museum has sent a Chilkat robe it's had for the last 80 years to Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau in the hopes of identifying it; The Kodiak Filipino American Association celebrated Philippine Independence Day wiht a basketball tournament; Tongass Voices: Juneau Bike Doctor’s Ken Hill wants to get everybody on a bike
Newscast – Friday, June 21, 2024
June 22, 2024 01:00 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced an emergency closure for most near-shore fishing areas around Juneau, Researchers found dangerous levels of paralytic shellfish toxins in Ketchikan, and they are helping researchers learn more about the toxins, And, if you felt that this May was especially rainy, you were right
Newscast – Thursday, June 20, 2024
June 21, 2024 01:16 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Local trail crews are trying to figure out how to keep up with muddier and harder-to-maintain trails in Southeast Alaska caused by climate change; New rules for wastewater are on the horizon here in Alaska; Seward's Lydia Jacoby won't compete in this summer's Olympics in Paris; Two men died after their small plane crashed on Tuesday into Crescent Lake on the Kenia Peninsula.
Newscast – Tuesday, June 18, 2024
June 19, 2024 01:00 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Juneau Mayor Beth Weldon announced that she plans to run for a third term in October's local election; The Juneau Assembly is increasing funding in a city loan program for purchasing mobile homes; European green crabs are expanding their territory in Southeast Alaska; A team of experts on sexual assault is training healthcare professionals to fill gaps in response and care
Newscast – Monday, June 17, 2024
June 18, 2024 01:00 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: It's taken 44 years, but a hydroelectric project in Angoon finally has all the funding and most of the permits to launch; A rare mountain lion was shot and killed on Wrangell Island earlier this month; Tongass Voices: The Evening Star on creating spaces for queer Indigenous people
Newscast – Friday, June 14, 2024
June 15, 2024 01:01 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Cultural ambassadors are now at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center to teach Lingit culture and history to tourists; Representative Mary Peltola recently introduced two bills aimed at addressing bycatch in federal trawl fisheries
Newscast – Thursday, June 13, 2024
June 14, 2024 01:00 - 945 KBIn this newscast: A drag story time in Seward faced a bomb threat on Saturday, but the event persisted; Curious Juneau: What will happen to Juneau’s City Hall mural if the city moves out?
Newscast – Wednesday, June 12, 2024
June 13, 2024 01:00 - 4.64 MBIn this newscast: A Superior Court judge in Anchorage has dismissed a significant portion of a lawsuit filed by supporters of Alaska's ranked choice voting; A search is underway for a missing Ketchikan woman; Museum curators, chemists and Alaska Native weavers have worked to solve the mystery of what dye techniques were used to produce the colors in Chilkat weaving; Juneau Animal Rescue removed over 50 cats and kittens from a Juneau residence
Newscast – Tuesday, June 11, 2024
June 12, 2024 01:00 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: Last week, SHI presented a film screening of Tlingit Macbeth. The production reimagines Shakespeare's 400-year-old play by infusing elements of Lingit language and culture; The federal government is considering a request that would grant the Gulf of Alaska king salmon Endangered Species Act protections
Newscast – Monday, June 10, 2024
June 11, 2024 00:59 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: A federal lawsuit over fishing rights for the people of Alaska's only Native reservation is likely heading for trial; Every year, one dance group is chosen to lead the procession of dancers that begins and ends Celebration; Tongass Voices: Nick Alan Foote on coming home for Celebration
Newscast – Friday, June 7, 2024
June 08, 2024 00:59 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Southeast Alaska’s cutest models hit the stage at Centennial Hall on Thursday for Celebration’s Toddler Regalia Review; The state of Alaska is facing a new class action lawsuit over its failure to process Medicaid applications on time. That’s after state officials told Alaska Public Media last month that more than 15,000 Alaskans are waiting for their applications to be approved; Researchers are monitoring a bloom of phytoplankton near one of Kodiak Island’s beaches that is...
Newscast – Thursday, June 6, 2024
June 07, 2024 01:00 - 14 MBIn this newscast: Earlier this week, a swath of gray storm clouds interrupted an afternoon of clear blue skies in Juneau. A few people caught the sound of thunder and saw flashes of lightning. Juneau is no stranger to rainy days, but thunderstorms only happen once every two years or so here. KTOO’s Anna Canny explains why they’re so rare; A mother-daughter duo — a weaver and an engraver — won Best of Show at this Celebration’s Juried Arts show. Their winning entry was a spruce root hat called...
Newscast – Wednesday, June 5, 2024
June 06, 2024 01:00 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Traditional canoes -- or yaakw -- landed in Juneau Tuesday to mark the start of the bi-annual Celebration festival; A team of local scientists and emergency managers are trying to improve flood forecasts; Tongass Voices: Dave Hanson on the cosmos of Marie Drake Planetarium
Newscast – Tuesday, June 4, 2024
June 05, 2024 01:07 - 4.67 MBIn this newscast: Last week, an Alaska Coach Tours bus backed into a totem pole at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum, and drove off. Witnesses called the museum to report the accident. There’s minimal damage to the pole and city engineers made sure it was stable. But for the son of the man who carved the 57-year-old totem pole, the accident was a reminder of what this piece means to him and his father’s legacy; Naomi Michelson shares her reflections on the practice of respectful harvesting for t...
Newscast – Friday, May 31, 2024
June 01, 2024 01:00 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau has negotiated an official agreement with cruise lines that will put a limit on the number of daily passengers that come into Juneau in 2026; The US Coast Guard shared their conclusions from a year long investigation into what caused the loss of a charter vessel in Sitka Sound and its five passengers
Newscast – Thursday, May 30, 2024
May 31, 2024 00:59 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Bartlett Regional Hospital is facing a multi-million dollar deficit and now hospital leaders are considering cutting some services to stop the bleeding; A partnership between scientists and local hunters to monitor sea ice is helping Utqiagvik adapt to the lost of ice due to climate change
Newscast – Wednesday, May 29, 2024
May 30, 2024 00:04 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Students studying environmental science at UAS will settle into a brand new building this fall; An organization working to reduce the cost of trash disposal in Southeast Alaska has won a $500,000 grant to study where there are cheaper, more efficient ways to get rid of garbage; Sixteen people from Wrangell and Petersburg are about to paddle north to Juneau for the bi-annual Celebration festival
Newscast – Tuesday, May 28, 2024
May 29, 2024 00:59 - 4.48 MBIn this newscast: Dozens of people had to scramble to find a way home from Haines this weekend when two sailings of the LeConte were canceled due to mechanical issues; On Sunday, more than 300 seniors graduated from Juneau's three high schools, and the last graduating class from Thunder Mountain High School; Tongass Voices: Seth Williams on what it takes to be a karaoke host in Juneau
Newscast – Friday, May 24, 2024
May 25, 2024 01:05 - 51.3 MBIn this newscast: A group of paddlers from Kasaan prepare for a 10-day, over 250-mile journey to Juneau for Celebration in canoes they carved themselves, making stops in communities like Wrangell and Petersburg along the way; Alaskans looking to invest in solar panels or other renewable energy infrastructure for their homes will likely have some new options in the next few years. The state is setting up a new so-called “green bank” that aims to help Alaskans keep their power costs down and sp...
Newscast – Thursday, May 23, 2024
May 24, 2024 01:00 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Members of Juneau's Assembly decided to lower the city's property tax rate next year; Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola introduced two bills that aim to reduce the number of salmon that the pollock fleet catches by accident; Leaders from Ketchikan's Indigenous communities spoke passionately against inauthentic totem poles at a city council meeting
Newscast – Wednesday, May 22, 2024
May 23, 2024 01:01 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: One Juneau inventor hopes to tap into the power of the ocean with a small tidal generator that's poised to hit the market next year; Alaska's governor could soon sign a bill into law that would establish a task force to look into the economic crisis facing the state's seafood industry, but one legislator said leaders missed an opportunity to give tribes a greater voice; Suzanne LaFrance declared victory in Anchorage's mayoral race, a week after voting ended in the runoff ele...
Newscast – Tuesday, May 21, 2024
May 22, 2024 01:01 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Security footage posted online shows Anchorage police killing an armed man last week, but a witness who owns the camera says her footage contradicts what officers say happened in the lead up to the shooting; The first Alaska woman has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences; The remote village of Golovin is the subject of a new documentary that shines a light on the unique hardships experienced living on the Western Alaska coast; A Homer man died Sunday morning afte...
Newscast – Monday, May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024 23:57 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: An electric pole in Ketchikan caught fire late last month and sent Ketchikan, Petersburg, and Wrangell into a blackout. The three grids - which are interconnected - went dark for a few hours. That smoldering electric pole was symptomatic of a much larger, decades-long issue facing Ketchikan Public Utilities; Tongass Voices: Kanik Corinne James on being uplifted by Indigenous women in the art world
Newscast – Friday, May 17, 2024
May 18, 2024 01:07 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: AKPM's Eric Stone reports on the dozens of bills passed as lawmakers concluded their work this legislative session; Injured commercial fishermen and boat owners in Alaska will now be able to access higher insurance reimbursements, thanks to a senate bill passed by lawmakers; A bill passed by the legislature addresses the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous People in the state.
Newscast – Thursday, May 16, 2024
May 17, 2024 01:06 - 4.65 MBAn affordable housing project built specifically for people in recovery from substance misuse received funding support from the Juneau Assembly this week; KTOO reporter Anna Canny sought out where ravens roost in Juneau in this week's Curious Juneau episode; A 91-year-old cruise tourist is suing the Ketchikan Borough for negligence after his mobility scooter tipped over on a public bus.
Newscast – Wednesday, May15, 2024
May 16, 2024 01:02 - 4.67 MBIn this newscast: Ketchikan community members are pushing back against the planned construction of a market downtown which would feature two totem poles made by a non-Native Minnesota artist with a checkered past; A look at what's planned for this years Little Norway Festival in Petersburg
Newscast – Tuesday, May 14, 2024
May 15, 2024 00:46 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau Assembly approved the school district's more than $85 million budget for next school year last night; Budget negotiators in the Alaska Legislature have settled on the amount of this year's Permanent Fund dividend and energy relief check; Since statehood, Alaska has not had the death penalty, but the men who were last executed here shouldn't be forgotten
Newscast – Monday, May 13, 2024
May 14, 2024 00:19 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Alaska lawmakers passed a bill last week that adds several Indigenous languages to Alaska’s official list of languages; One People Canoe Society visited Wrangell in early spring to teach residents how to make traditional Lingít paddles. This class was the kickoff for the Journey to Celebration, where a group of paddlers will canoe from Wrangell to Juneau at the end of May and early June; Tongass Voices: Rebecca Hsieh on intertwining community and art with Head in the Clouds...
Newscast – Friday, May 10, 2024
May 11, 2024 00:46 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: A new study reveals that snow slides are a leading cause of death for mountain goats; Should Southeast Alaska have a hatchery-only king salmon sports fishery? Researchers recently tried to answer that question as a possible solution to a declining number of wild kings; Active aurora is forecast this weekend due to intense solar flares in recent days
Newscast – Thursday, May 9, 2024
May 10, 2024 01:00 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Alaskans who sued the state last year over long wait times for food assistance are asking a federal judge to order the state to speed up processing, but the state says the situation has improved dramatically, Transboundary gold mines are controversial because of their environmental impact, but a nonprofit group released a…
Newscast – Wednesday, May 8, 2024
May 09, 2024 00:42 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau Assembly wants the city to ask community organizations if they'd be interested in continuing to care for graveyards on Douglas -- with potential funding; An audio postcard from this years MMIP Awareness Day in Bethel
Newscast – Tuesday, May 7, 2024
May 08, 2024 00:45 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Juneau's annual workshop on How to Run for Local Office is this Saturday, and October's municipal election is already shaping up to be an interesting one; A proposal headed to the Alaska Board of Fisheries next year would change how a popular run of king salmon is managed near Petersburg; Tongass Voices: Haa Tooch Lichéesh Coalition members find inner strength through ocean dipping
Newscast – Monday, May 6, 2024
May 07, 2024 01:46 - 13.9 MBIn this newscast: Juneau residents had some close encounters with a curious killer whale. Sitka’s “Indian Village” was recognized as one of 11 endangered historic places in the U.S. Organizers are hoping that attention will inspire efforts to conserve and rebuild a cultural hub.
Newscast – Friday, May 3, 2024
May 04, 2024 01:11 - 51.3 MBGov. Mike Dunleavy is calling on lawmakers to pause their efforts to address a court ruling that threatens the state’s homeschool system. But, the Superior Court judge ruled Thursday evening that the ruling would remain on hold only through this June. The court also rejected Dunleavy's broad interpretation of his ruling; Sitka's Tourism Task Force adopted cruise tourism recommendations including reducing "peak days" engaging with the visitor industry and establishing a permanent commission to...
Newscast – Thursday, May 2, 2024
May 03, 2024 01:05 - 4.67 MBDozens of child-sized Ravenstail robes were danced for the first time at an event in Juneau on Tuesday. It’s the largest collection of new Ravenstail weaving in decades; KTOO's Katie Anastas investigated Juneau's varying gas prices for this week's Curious Juneau Episode.
Newscast – Wednesday, May 1, 2024
May 02, 2024 01:09 - 51.5 MBThunder Mountain High School parents want to remove the Juneau school board's president and vice president; The Iditarod's Burled Arch that marks the finish line of the race fell on Saturday; The University of Alaska and a union representing graduate student workers have reached a tentative contract agreement.
Newscast – Tuesday, April 30, 2024
May 01, 2024 01:10 - 14 MBIn this newscast: Alaska gets an infusion of $125 million to build and expand solar energy. The Juneau Assembly rejected a symbolic resolution for bilateral peace between Israel and Palestine. Malin Babcock, treasurer of the Gastineau Historical Society and a descendent of victims of Juneau’s 1936 landslide, shares her story for Tongass Voices.
Newscast – Monday, April 29, 2024
April 30, 2024 01:09 - 51.3 MBIn this newscast: Weaver Lily Hope and her collaborators will debut a collection of child-sized Ravenstail robes. Adelyn Baxter visits Juneau’s recycling center for the latest installment of Curious Juneau. The Anchorage School District looks to close schools in response to declining student populations.
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