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Newscast – Tuesday, June 10, 2025

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2025/06/11

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly voted to increase both the city's property tax and utility rates for the fiscal year that begins in July; The City and Borough of Juneau plans to evict all residents of the historic downtown Telephone Hill neighborhood by October 1st; After upheaval in the federal funding that supports trail maintenance, KTOO checked up on the state of trail work in Juneau on National Trails Day; A team of about 10 people returned last month from visiting the old shipwreck site

Newscast – Monday, June 9, 2025

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2025/06/10

In this newscast: Dozens of Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone learned how to prepare for flooding expected later this summer; Sealaska Heritage Institute is hoping people can help them identify the subjects of thousands of photos taken by a late Lingit leader; The Skagway Borough Assembly accepted Mayor Sam Bass' resignation on Thursday; The Alaska Department of Corrections has taken in 40 people who were detained outside of the state by U.S. Immigration and Customs

Newscast – Friday, June 6, 2025

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2025/06/06

In this newscast: Juneau is getting a new public-use cabin, this time built by a local trail maintenance nonprofit; The largest timber companies operating in Southeast Alaska want the Tongass National Forest to sell them more old-growth timber, and they’re suing the federal government to get it. The Department of Justice asked the court to throw the case out in May; An appeals court has ruled that the board that regulates subsistence hunting on federal lands within Alaska acted legally when it

Newscast – Thursday, June 5, 2025

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2025/06/06

In this newscast: The National Guard will conduct emergency preparation drills throughout Juneau beginning this Sunday; A polar icebreaker is on its way to Juneau, where it will eventually be homeported; The Alaska Board of Education unanimously approved new reading standards for Alaska Native languages Wednesday; An eagle nest paused a wastewater pump station replacement near downtown Petersburg; KTOO's Yvonne Krumrey speaks with a retiring emergency responder who led a mobile response units in

Newscast – Wednesday, June 4, 2025

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2025/06/05

In this newscast: The Coast Guard responded to a ship fire near Adak Tuesday; Petersburg's borough assembly passed its budget for the next fiscal year, but funding for a potential cruise ship dock caused friction among assembly members; Nineteen dogs were brought to the Dillingham Animal Control shelter over the weekend after a police investigation into animal cruelty; Local officials say this year's Bering Sea pollack fishery was off to a good start. The City of Hoonah and Huna Heritage Foundation

Newscast – Tuesday, June 3, 2025

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2025/06/04

In this newscast: The Alaska State Board of Education is considering a regulation change that would further limit how much money local governments can give to school districts; The Juneau Assembly is mulling over a plan to implement a ranked choice voting system for local elections beginning next year; They also voted to wait on a second extension of Juneau's Mendenhall River levee until after this flood season; Hoonah's police chief submitted his resignation after less than two years in the role

Newscast – Monday, June 2, 2025

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2025/06/03

In this newscast: Local advocates have failed to gather enough signatures before the initial deadline for three ballot petitions that seek to lower the cost of living in Juneau; The University of Alaska Southeast hired two new administrators. One will lead its School of Education and the other will oversee the campus in Sitka; June is Pride month, and Juneau's LGBTQ+ Pride month calendar is packed this year; Curious Juneau: Where do Juneau's bald eagles go?; The U.S. portion of a historic, 33 mile

Newscast – Thursday, May 29, 2025

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2025/05/30

In this newscast: Heavy rains and flooding in Southeast Alaska triggered a series of small landslides in Ketchikan yesterday; Cancelled federal funding and grants have stalled the construction of a Juneau affordable housing project for at least a year. The project is aimed specifically at people in recovery from substance misuse and the delay means the dozens of people it could have housed will have to find another option; Many communities along Alaska’s southern coast are dependent on state ferries

Newscast – Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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2025/05/29

In this newscast: Researchers launched and interactive glacial outburst flood website today to help Juneau's Mendenhall Valley residents plan for annual floods; Many businesses in Southeast Alaska say they're facing uncertainty amid recent actions by the federal government, according to a report released yesterday by the Southeast Alaska Business Climate Survey; The Juneau School District is expanding its support of a local language immersion program; It's been nearly three years since the town of

Newscast – Tuesday, May 27, 2025

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2025/05/28

In this newscast: State officials took another step toward building a new ferry terminal at the end of the road in Juneau; Some Juneau residents are calling for police to crack down on homeless encampments in the Mendenhall Valley, but city officials and police say there isn't an easy fix to growing rates of homelessness and its impacts; The Trump administration is attempting to alter environmental regulations that seek to protect endangered species habitat in order to "unlock" the potential of

Newscast – Friday, May 23, 2025

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2025/05/24

In this newscast: An Anchorage lawyer has been implicated as a "cartel attorney" working for traffickers who allegedly sent hard drugs from Mexico to Alaska; It was Sen. Lisa Murkowski's 68th birthday yesterday; The Juneau Assembly considers a seasonal sales tax ballot proposition to capitalize on summer tourism; A teacher in Juneau's Mendenhall Valley is bringing current glacial outburst flood science to middle schoolers; The cruise line industry is suing Skagway over a new policy that makes a

Newscast – Thursday, May 22, 2025

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2025/05/23

In this newscast: Tomorrow is the last day of school at the Juneau School District, and high school seniors are graduating on Sunday; A storm is set to hit Southeast Alaska this weekend with strong winds and heavy rain; Property taxes could go up for most Juneau residents if the Juneau Assembly moves forward with a plan to increase the rate it uses to calculate them in the next fiscal year; The Juneau School District is restructuring one of its specialized education programs. While staff and

Newscast – Wednesday, May 21, 2025

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2025/05/22

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Monday in support of keeping the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area federally owned; The City and Borough of Juneau may step in to fund positions at the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area formerly held by federal workers; The Juneau Assembly also unanimously approved a change for how much the city charges large cruise ships to dock at city owned facilities; Alaska lawmakers overrode Gov. Mike Dunleavy's veto of a high profile

Newscast – Tuesday, May 20, 2025

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2025/05/21

In this newscast:The local advocates who filed a petition with the City and Borough of Juneau last month to put harder limits on cruise ship tourism have withdrawn it; The Juneau Assembly passed an ordinance mandating the Juneau Police Department release body-word camera footage no more than 30 days after a city police officer shoots someone; Another Ketchikan school board member stepped down, following the district's board president, superintendent and another board member; It's still not clear

Newscast – Monday, May 19, 2025

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2025/05/20

In this newscast: The Juneau School District Board of Education appointed Steve Whitney to the board on Saturday; Senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced a bill that would reauthorize funds for landslide monitoring projects across Southeast Alaska; The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development failed a test that allows it to include millions of federal dollars towards its contributions to education funding; Tribal leaders from across the country spoke out last week at a U.S. Senate hearing

Newscast – Friday, May 16, 2025

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2025/05/17

In this newscast: Five candidates have applied to fill an empty seat on the Juneau School District Board of Education after Will Muldoon resigned; Alaska regulators have assessed a $49,000 fine against Hilcorp for lapses in Cook Inlet offshore well management, the Alaska Beacon reports; Some Southeast Alaska communities had their earliest harmful algal bloom on record this year, and there is currently a paralytic shellfish toxin advisory across region for recreational and subsistence harvest; Local

Newscast – Thursday, May 15, 2025

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2025/05/16

In this newscast: A German Shepherd who was on the lam for nearly three months has been captured to returned to her family; The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation says 400,000 gallons of process water spilled at a large lead and zinc mine in Northern Alaska yesterday; The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development is considering whether to reduce the amount of money local governments can give to school district, but a new bill would allow local governments to continue to fund

Newscast – Wednesday, May 14, 2025

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2025/05/15

In this newscast: Lawmakers are setting aside until next year a bill that would kick off a pilot program for tribally-run public schools; The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska can now receive reimbursements for providing child welfare services directly from the federal government; Alaska officials who help resettle immigrants say they're facing a lot of uncertainty amid the Trump administration's crackdown on legal and illegal immigration; Alaska would be in the same

Newscast – Tuesday, May 13, 2025

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2025/05/14

In this newscast: Juneau was one of nine communities selected for an annual grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a health philanthropy group; Flood inundation maps that model how Juneau's Mendenhall River levee should perform have finally arrived; Initial results from a study of humpback whale health in Juneau found that the area is particularly important for females and their calves, and the findings could drive the city to consider restricting the growth of the whale watching industry; A

Newscast – Monday, May 12, 2025

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2025/05/13

In this newscast: The filing period to run for an elected position in Southeast Alaska’s proposed Xunaa Borough closes this Friday. But, a pending appeal of a state commission’s approval of the new borough could halt the special election scheduled this July, when residents will be asked whether to create Alaska’s 20th borough; Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he’s ordering a freeze on most state hiring, out-of-state travel and new regulations as oil prices tumble. Dunleavy outlined the freeze in an

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