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 – Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024
February 01, 2024 01:40 - 4.68 MBIn this newscast: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced this month that fishing for yelloweye rockfish is prohibited again in Southeast Alaska this year; Since October of last year, Anchorage has been visited by a rare, feathered celebrity; A third January storm could dump even more snow on Juneau starting tonight
Newscast – Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024
January 31, 2024 00:03 - 13.9 MBIn this newscast: U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola tells KTOO about her accomplishments and future priorities; Anchorage Democratic Sen. Forrest Dunbar has introduced a bill to create a psychedelics medicine task force
Newscast – Monday, Jan. 29, 2024
January 30, 2024 01:40 - 14 MBAlaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola was in Juneau as her last stop on a statewide tour to kick off her reelection campaign, cruise ships in Juneau reduced the amount of trash they dumped into the landfill by over 90% this year, mushers pushed through 30-below temperatures to finish the 45th running of the Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race this weekend.
Newscast – Friday, Dec. 29, 2023
December 29, 2023 23:26 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: A network of Artic observers spanning nearly all of Alaska's northern coast is helping to center Indigenous knowledge in climate change research; Sitka struggles to cope with the crowding and congestion from the rapid growth of cruise tourism in recent years; In Anchorage a lawsuit in federal court seeks to have Donald Trump disqualified from Alaska's 2024 presidential election ballot.
Newscast – Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023
December 29, 2023 01:44 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Juneau Police Lt. Krag Campbell with become Deputy Chief of Police on Jan. 1; A Washington man has pleaded guilty to Misrepresentation of Indian Produced Goods and Products; A Ketchikan grand jury indicted four people and police arrested another on felony drug charges this month
Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023
December 28, 2023 02:10 - 4.15 MBIn this newscast: The National Weather Service office in Juneau issued a high wind warning for downtown Juneau and Douglas; Sealaska Heritage Institute released new language learning apps in endangered Southeast Alaska languages; The Alaska Marine Highway System is unsure if it will have enough crew to operate all seven ferry ships this summer; The Alaska Marine Highway System plans to ask shipyards in the coming weeks to submit proposals to build a replacement for the ferry Tustumena.
Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023
December 27, 2023 01:37 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: Juneau's new cold weather emergency shelter opened in a warehouse south of town in October. KTOO visited to see how it's going; In August, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied a petition to list the Alexander Archipelago wolf on the endangered species list
Newscast – Friday, Dec. 22, 2023
December 22, 2023 17:38 - 4.67 MBIn this newscast: Eaglecrest Ski Area opened for the winter Wednesday after getting some much needed snow the night before; In the remote village of Ambler -- a community of 300, north of the Arctic Circle -- Christmas festivities involve everyone; A listen to this year's Tuba Christmas at the Anchorage Performing Arts Center
Newscast – Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023
December 21, 2023 19:02 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: At the Anchorage Waldorf School, children are encouraged to embrace the heart of winter on the solstice; A Yup'ik from the village of Kwethluk who died in 1979 will soon become the first North American saint in the Orthodox Church
Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023
December 21, 2023 02:07 - 4.67 MBIn this newscast: The Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium opens a new urgent care in Juneau; The Alaska Supreme Court orders the Office of Public Advocacy to resume assigning public guardians for patients; A defense bill approved by Congress includes $200 million in funding for construction at Alaska military installations; The U.S. State Department expands the country's territory based on undersea geography
Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023
December 20, 2023 02:13 - 4.71 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau Assembly asked city administration to look for places the city could rent office space, Gov. Mike Dunleavy shared ideas for Alaska’s energy needs in his budget, Ketchikan was offered $4.5 million to build affordable housing units, “Landless” legislation passed a new milestone last week after winning approval of the Senate…
Newscast – Monday, Dec. 18, 2023
December 19, 2023 02:11 - 4.58 MBIn this newscast: The U.S. Forest Service finalized its plans for an overhaul of the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area, Scientist in Southeast Alaska are seeking more data to predict landslides with weather stations and a new survey of the island elevation in Wrangell, Anchorage homelessness experts and political leaders are pushing a new approach to…
Newscast – Friday, Dec. 15, 2023
December 16, 2023 01:39 - 51.3 MBIn this newscast: Gov. Mike Dunleavy's budget includes large Permanent Fund Dividends and no increase to education funding; Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium closes its Sitka hospital's home health department; Crowds attend the annual open house at the governor's mansion
Newscast – Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023
December 15, 2023 01:55 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: Juneau's Eaglecrest Ski Area is again delaying its opening after this week's heavy rain and warm temperatures; A new food truck park just opened in Juneau in December; Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Tuesday that he plans to include funding to replace an aging state ferry in his budget request for next year; And, some good reasons not to feed the moose
Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023
December 14, 2023 01:52 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: A project intended to bring dozens of furnished studio apartments to downtown Juneau passed a major hurdle , despite safety concerns from some top city officials; A nonprofit running ads targeting Mayor Dave Bronson in Anchorage is carefully avoiding the line that triggers campaign finance disclosure laws; Trident Seafoods announced that it's selling a third of its Alaskan plants
Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023
December 13, 2023 01:59 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau Assembly has voted to get rid of land use regulations for landslide zones in the city’s downtown neighborhoods. The city’s new policy maintains restrictions for avalanche zones, while rolling back restrictions in landslide zones; Millions of people in Mexico honor the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, each year on Dec. 12. In Juneau, the growing Hispanic community also gathers to pay homage from thousands of miles away; Five environme...
Newscast – Friday, Sept. 22, 2023
September 23, 2023 00:42 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: One of the finalist for Juneau police chief led an investigation last year that targeted two school administrators who stored explicit photos of a minor as evidence in a sexting investigation; Wetland-heavy communities are wondering whether U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowed the gap of the Clean Water Act will clear an easier path to development
Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023
September 22, 2023 00:34 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for areas around Jordan Creek, Montana Creek and Auke Lake; Áak'w Rock, an event billed as the only Indigenous music festival in the country, begins today; A team of scientists at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks just released its first "berry booklet"; A proxy moose hunt program in Bethel means those two are elderly or disabled don't have to sit out the moose harvest
Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023
September 20, 2023 23:48 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: The Juneau Assembly is considering repealing hazard maps and development restrictions that have been in place since the 1980s; For three years, volunteers have been restoring cemeteries on Douglas Island, and now they're questioning whose job it is to maintain these sites; A proposal to dramatically relax Anchorage's rules for where different types of housing can and can't be built has been rewritten
Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023
September 20, 2023 01:01 - 4.63 MBIn this newscast: The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska held a forum for Juneau Assembly candidates on Friday; Six weeks after an unprecedented glacial outburst flood tore through Juneau. Now, most of those homeowners are still in limbo; The decision by the Biden administration to cancel oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was examined in a U.S. House hearing today
Newscast – Monday, September 18, 2023
September 19, 2023 01:01 - 4.38 MBIn this newscast: Ballots for Juneau's Oct. 3 municipal election have been sent to registered voters; A group of Sitkans is calling for a cap on the number of cruise passengers next year; New vaccines for COVID and RSV for infants are available in Alaska
Newscast – Friday, Sept. 15, 2023
September 16, 2023 00:42 - 14 MBIn this newscast: The fish were there but the market wasn’t during Southeast Alaska’s chum and pink runs Immigrants from five countries became U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony in Juneau this week A Petersburg quilting group builds community across generations
Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023
September 14, 2023 23:59 - 13.9 MBIn this newscast: Grants from the Alaska Mental Health Trust will help Juneau’s hospital launch mental health crisis services and Housing First expand its permanent supportive housing The Ketchikan City Council voted to cut hours at the town’s only 24/7 emergency shelter due to safety concerns from neighbors After Tuesday’s fatal plane crash, Eugene “Buzzy”…
Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023
September 14, 2023 01:20 - 13.7 MBIn this newscast: The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch ahead of incoming rainstorms. Rep. Mary Peltola’s husband Eugene “Buzzy” Peltola died in a plane crash Wednesday morning. A new art show by Anchorage artist John Coe seeks to raise awareness about screenings for colon cancer. The Anchorage Assembly has voted to put…
Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023
September 13, 2023 01:25 - 13.9 MBIn this newscast: The pilot of a small plane was seriously injured yesterday after crashing near Excursion Inlet. Pinball tournaments are a new thing in Alaska, and Juneau already has a few rising stars. Garbage experts in Petersburg are seeking solutions to deal with the rising cost of waste disposal. A new e-waste initiative is…
Newscast – Monday, Sept. 11, 2023
September 12, 2023 00:44 - 14 MBIn this newscast: The congregation of a church that ran Juneau’s emergency cold weather shelter last year has declined to host it again this winter; Catholic Social Services in Anchorage teaches refugees how to navigate the U.S. healthcare system; The City of Hoonah is distributing bear-resistant trash bins to residents
Newscast — Thursday, September 1, 2022
September 02, 2022 01:11 - 13.9 MBIn the newscast: Biologists says fish genetics are going to help them better bycatch issues; Online commenters say Homer-based company Salmon Sisters’ line of apparel is “cultural appropriation”; A Sukteeneidi honor pole will be raised in Craig in mid-September.
Newscast – Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022
September 01, 2022 01:23 - 8.51 MBIn this newscast: Mary Peltola will be the first Alaska Native in Congress; a wet weekend ahead for Juneau; Alaska's first Black colonel to lead Troopers; meet some of the carvers of SHI's totem pole trail
Newscast – Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022
August 31, 2022 01:45 - 5.05 MBIn this newscast: The cruise industry signs a first-of-its-kind agreement with Juneau; Juneau police began collecting DNA from some people with criminal records; A University of Alaska faculty union files an unfair labor practices complaint against the university administration; the village of Nunapitchuk water treatment building is at risk of collapse; A candidate for Ketchikan City Council ends his campaign after KRBD exposes his criminal record
Newscast – Monday, Aug. 29, 2022
August 30, 2022 01:16 - 5.43 MBIn this newscast: A little-known candidate named Buzz Kelley will advance to the general election for an Alaska seat in the U.S. Senate; An Anchorage man shot by police on Friday now faces 19 charges including kidnapping and attempted murder; Active duty airmen will soon be driving school buses for students at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to help with a driver shortage; 29 students from Ukraine begin classes in the Delta-Greely School District; A new business in Sitka offers snorkeling to ...
Newscast – Friday, Aug. 26, 2022
August 27, 2022 01:20 - 5 MBIn this newscast: A former Bartlett Regional Hospital executive is in jail facing felony charges for stealing from the hospital; School districts across the state are facing teacher shortages; Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce resigns to focus on his gubernatorial campaign; Environmental groups sue the Biden administration over its approval of an oil exploration program on the North Slope; U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski holds a hearing in Unalaska to try to spur the federal government to...
Newscast — Thursday, August 25, 2022
August 26, 2022 01:09 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: A two-year process that slowed cleanup at the Tulsequah Chief mine upriver from Southeast Alaska came to an end; NASA scientists have completed another summer documenting climate change in the far north; Neither fall chum nor coho salmon runs of the Yukon River are robust enough to open subsistence fisheries; Sen. Dan…
Newscast — Wednesday, August 24, 2022
August 25, 2022 01:06 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: A private plane made an emergency landing on a Bethel road last weekend; The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its first ever strategic plan for mariculture in Alaska; A Fairbanks group is fighting against goldmine development in the area; Governor Mike Dunleavy championed Alaska mineral development at a University of Alaska…
Newscast – Tuesday, August 23, 2022
August 24, 2022 01:12 - 4.46 MBIn this newscast: Rockslides are battering a Skagway cruise ship dock and crushing the town’s economy; Norwegian Cruise Line gave waterfront property it spent millions on to Huna Totem Corporation; A humpback whale calf appears to be okay after an encounter with a tour boat in Favorite Channel
Newscast – Monday, August 22, 2022
August 24, 2022 01:08 - 4.65 MBIn this newscast: Lack of affordable childcare in Sitka; Ketchikan welcomed a new U.S. Coast Guard cutter; MonkeyPox vaccine eligibility expanded in Alaska; Former state Rep. Dean Westlake’s son is charged with beating Westlake to death
Newscast — Friday, August 19, 2022
August 20, 2022 01:05 - 51.3 MBIn this newscast: Students and teachers are transferred to other school on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson after Ursa Major Elementary School closed over earthquake safety concerns; A Soldotna family was named the 2022 Alaska Farm Family of the Year; Homer’s Sandhill Crane Count starts up again this weekend; The Federal Aviation Administration cleared Aleutian Airways to…
Newscast — Wednesday, August 17, 2022
August 18, 2022 01:12 - 4.66 MBIn this newscast: All of Southeast Alaska’s primary candidates will advance to ranked choice general election; Juneau voters seemed to catch on to ranked choice voting with help from volunteers; A family dog was killed while defending its owners from wolves on a Metlakatla beach; Juneau Police urge attentiveness and caution as school resumes; The…
Newscast — Tuesday, August 16, 2022
August 17, 2022 01:00 - 13.7 MBIn this newscast: Juneau organizations support transgender youth with new written guides for navigating school challenges; Alaskans headed to the polls today for their first chance to rank candidates in the special U.S. House general election and primaries; Final results for the statewide primary won’t be available until at least August 31st; A new undersea…
Newscast — Monday, August 15, 2022
August 16, 2022 01:11 - 51.3 MBIn this newscast: The federal government will take over silver salmon management in the lower Kuskowim River if the run stays low; Governor Mike Dunleavy ran as the conservative candidate last term, but this year he faces two challengers to his right on the political spectrum; The U.S. Department of Interior must hold an oil…
Newscast – Friday, Aug. 12, 2022
August 13, 2022 01:48 - 6.1 MBIn this newscast: The state's latest labor data shows that about one out of every nine jobs in Alaska is unfilled; Ironman Alaska participants and an economic analyst tally up the event's economic impact on Juneau; The two Republican candidates in Alaska's first ranked choice vote election are attacking each other; Tara Sweeney files to run as a write-in candidate in the special U.S. House election; And a correction for a story about a Pebble Mine investor from Wednesday
Newscast – Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022
August 12, 2022 01:43 - 5.46 MBIn this newscast: The families of four cruise passengers killed in a floatplane crash sue Holland America Line; A federal court rules that the National Marine Fisheries Services improperly approved a troll fisher for king salmon in Southeast Alaska; OBI Seafoods in Petersburg hits pink salmon processing milestone for the summer; A brown bear and three cubs have taken up residence in Kodiak; A tribe in Washington state builds a tsunami refuge tower; Organizations are getting creative in their ...
Newscast – Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022
August 11, 2022 01:39 - 5.19 MBIn this newscast: Juneau police identify the crew member that went missing off a cruise ship on Monday night; The Juneau school board leaves masking optional for the upcoming school year; Health authorities say a Juneau woman in her 30s has died from COVID-19; The Pebble Mine project gets a mysterious new investor; Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson launches an investigation into how his administration failed to catch his health director's fake credentials
Newscast – Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022
August 10, 2022 01:55 - 5.26 MBIn this newscast: A cruise ship crew member is presumed dead after going overboard in Juneau waters; Federal officials say potentially billions of dollars are headed to Alaska for broadband internet access; the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. posts negative investment returns for the last fiscal year for the first time in a decade; small businesses in Southeast Alaska compete for Pathway to Prosperity grants; Anchorage's health director resigns after being confronted with evidence showing he vast...
Newscast – Monday, Aug. 8, 2022
August 09, 2022 01:34 - 5.16 MBIn this newscast: Alaska's first Ironman triathlon was in Juneau on Sunday; A Wyoming couple discovers a time capsule from 2006 at Mendenhall Lake; The Alaska Federation of Natives plans to hold its first in-person convention this October since 2019; Ketchikan parents sue their school district over a reference to "our creator" in tribal values posted in school; For the seventh time this year, an inmate in the custody of the Alaska Department of Corrections has died; Two Anchorage police offic...
Newscast – Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022
August 03, 2022 01:33 - 5.43 MBIn this newscast: U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan supports House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan; Two refugees from Ukraine resettle in Juneau; UAF and UAS offer a new graduate degree in marine policy; Oath Keepers member and Wasilla Rep. David Eastman gets sued for disloyalty; Outdoor deaths in Anchorage spike; The National Weather Service says a break in the rain is coming after irregular dumps
Newscast – Monday, Aug. 1, 2022
August 02, 2022 01:13 - 5.14 MBIn this newscast: Early voting begins for the Aug. 16 elections; Candidates for Alaska's U.S. House seat appear at a candidate forum; Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve starts its own cruise ship monitoring program; Some refugees from Ukraine are living aboard a former state ferry in Ketchikan; Wildlife monitors in Metlakatla collect the live invasive European green crabs for the first time
Newscast – Friday, July 29, 2022
July 30, 2022 01:19 - 5.03 MBIn this newscast: Alaska records its first case of monkeypox; Gov. Mike Dunleavy signs a bill that lets tribes apply to create their own public schools; A preview of local election ballot questions coming up in Monday's Juneau Assembly meeting; Conditions in global energy markets are making liquefied natural gas projects more attractive; A labor union negotiates a tentative contract to make some of Alaska Airlines workers the highest paid employees in the industry
Newscast – Thursday, July 28, 2022
July 29, 2022 01:41 - 5.54 MBIn this newscast: Congress passes a $280 billion bill to subsidize domestic production of computer chips; The public comment period closes soon on NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center draft research plans on climate change; Federal officials announce plans to spend $401 million in grants and loans to expand internet for rural parts of 11 states including Alaska; Four children are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in Fairbanks; Ironman Alaska athletes scramble to get their bikes to Junea...
Newscast – Wednesday, July 27, 2022
July 28, 2022 01:27 - 5.61 MBIn this newscast: Bartlett Regional Hospital names its next CEO; The state reports 123 new COVID cases in Juneau over the last week; Republican Tara Sweeney sets her eyes on the regular election cycle in her campaign for Congress; An invasive species of crab is discovered in Alaska for the first time; Gas prices are falling much slower in Alaska than elsewhere in the country; The National Weather Service says a glacial dam release is underway on the Taku River
Newscast – Tuesday, July 26, 2022
July 27, 2022 01:11 - 5.2 MBIn this newscast: Only incumbents file to run in Juneau's local elections; The state Department of Law lays out the limits of using state funds for homeschool on private classes; Village public safety officers train on how to respond to opioid overdoses; Seafood processors in Petersburg are working 17-hour shifts because chum salmon is coming in volumes they've never seen before; Wrangell's annual Bearfest comes out of pandemic hibernation this week