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Newscast – Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024

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2024/10/03

In this newscast: The Ketchikan School District honors Alaska Native mother Nettie Jones, who fought to end segregation in Alaska schools more than a century ago; Alaska ends the summer with a below average wildfire season.

Newscast – Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024

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2024/10/02

In this newscast: KTOO’s Clarise Larson was out and about around town on Election Day to chat with voters about their thoughts on the election; Ketchikan’s Third Avenue Bypass reopened Tuesday, more than a month after a fatal landslide came down over the road; The Tustumena has canceled all of its sailings through Sunday. It’s the latest snafu during the ferry’s diamond sailing season; In a shocking live broadcast, one of Katmai National Park’s celebrity bears killed another — just before the start

Newscast – Monday, Sept. 30, 2024

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2024/10/01

In this newscast: A totem pole was raised at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau over the weekend; After a close encounter with a Russian jet last week in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan is calling for the U.S. military to continue building its presence in Alaska to “meet force with force”; Thirteen pedestrians have been killed by cars so far in Anchorage this year, tying a grim record and renewing calls from the community to make city roads safer;

Newscast – Friday, Sept. 27, 2024

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2024/09/28

In this newscast: Juneau’s municipal Election Day is right around the corner — voters have until Tuesday night to cast their ballots in this year’s local election; Nearly $14 million of those dollars were awarded to Alaska tribes and tribal organizations to support survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking and sex trafficking; Public health experts worry Alaska will see more outbreaks of preventable disease due to low vaccination rates, like the current epidemic of

Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024

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2024/09/27

In this newscast: A new roundabout in the Mendenhall Valley got approval to move forward from the Juneau Planning Commission earlier this week; Alaska’s winter ferry schedule starts October 1st and looks a lot like last year; and U.S. Navy leaders visited Kake last weekend to formally apologize for the 1869 bombardment of the community.

Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024

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2024/09/26

In this newscast: Advocates for Juneau's Ship Free Saturdays ballot proposition say the reins need to be pulled on the growth of tourism, but opponents say the financial and legal implications could hurt the local economy; an annual report on Southeast Alaska’s economy shows a region firmly dependent on tourism and a struggling fishing sector; and a crew from Sitka Search and Rescue remained in the field Tuesday searching for a 16-year old boy missing since a car he was in left Blue Lake Road

Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024

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2024/09/25

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly unanimously agreed to commit $3 million in city dollars to a possible U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study that would examine engineering solutions for long-term glacial outburst flood prevention; Why a recall of two Juneau School Board members is on the local election ballot and what happens if it’s successful; and local actor Enrique Bravo shares his perspective on being an everyman in Juneau's theater scene.

Newscast – Monday, Sept. 23, 2024

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2024/09/24

In this newscast: Hear from mayoral candidates in this year's Oct. 1 Juneau Municipal Election as they share their thoughts on the public safety and infrastructure bond debt questions on the ballot

Newscast – Friday, Sept. 20, 2024

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2024/09/21

In this newscast: A coalition of Juneau scientists, conservationists, and wildlife enthusiasts will hold a forum about the proposed Juneau-Douglas Second Crossing next week; Quakers return cultural artifacts to Kake at the annual Dog Salmon Festival; Peltola bill would lift the ban on bringing puppies through Canada.

Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024

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2024/09/20

In this newscast: Juneau voters will decide whether to OK $10M bond for wastewater infrastructure improvements; The Alaska Marine Highway System has been awarded $177.4 million in federal grants; Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend for 2024 is $1,702; Fall is peak fishing for certain species on Prince of Wales Island.

Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024

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2024/09/19

In this newscast: Postal inspectors stopped a suspicious envelope intended for Alaska elections officials; Miscommunication leads to hundreds of extra ballots sent to Juneau voters; Alaska is in the middle of an epidemic of whooping cough cases; This week's Tongass Voices features Mitch Erie, a U.S. Forest Service Firefighter.

Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024

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2024/09/18

In this newscast: Bethel Regional High School classes were temporarily suspended on Monday morning in response to a threat that spread on social media; Juneau Assembly discusses funding for flood preparation as residents ask for more guidance; Bartlett Regional Hospital’s Rainforest Recovery Center will permanently close next week; Seagriculture USA occurred in Ketchikan last week, and participants discussed Alaska's potential growth as a seaweed producer.

Newscast – Monday, Sept. 16, 2024

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2024/09/17

In this newscast: Four people have died after a plane they were traveling in from Bethel crashed short of the runway in St. Mary's late Sunday night; The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska has received $15 million in funding via the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Pollution Reduction Grant program; Researchers have documented a hundred more cases of bird flu in Alaska, but some species are showing signs of immunity to the disease; 2024 is shaping up to be

Newscast – Friday, Sept. 13, 2024

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2024/09/13

In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau is asking voters whether or not to take out 12.7 million in bond debt to help replace the radio system that police and firefighters use to communicate; Juneau residents took to the Capitol this week to protest Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a bill that would have expanded access to birth control; The Alaska Supreme Court has affirmed the U.S. House candidacy of Eric Hafner, a Democrat imprisoned in New York state; Repairs have been made to the broken

Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024

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2024/09/13

In this newscast: Ballots for Juneau’s local election are being mailed to registered voters Thursday; Landslides are nothing new among Southeast Alaska's steep mountainsides and heavy rain. But the idea that every few years, another Southeast Alaska community has to dig its way out after a fatal disaster — that is new; Trail Mix, Inc.'s Meghan Tabacek shares how the makeup of the nonprofit's trail crews has changed for this week's Tongass Voices.

Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024

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2024/09/12

In this newscast: Bartlett Regional Hospital’s board of directors has named Joe Wanner as its new CEO; Assembly candidates in Juneau's upcoming municipal election discussed public safety issues during a forum last week; and a documentary examining the impact of the explosive growth of cruise tourism in Sitka will debut this weekend on national television.

Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024

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2024/09/11

In this newscast: The Juneau Parks and Recreation Office is moving operations into a downtown building vacated by the Juneau School District; Juneau’s city leaders say they’re working with federal partners on strategies to prepare for future floods in the Mendenhall Valley, following a second year of record-breaking glacial outburst flooding;The Tongass National Forest has a new online tool for subsistence users in Southeast Alaska. They call it the Subsistence Dashboard.

Newscast – Monday, Sept. 9, 2024

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2024/09/10

In this newscast: Douglas Island issues got the spotlight at a Juneau Assembly candidate forum on Sunday; new research hopes to find ways for bears and people to coexist more peacefully in Juneau; and a clinical mental health counselor in Sitka shares the unexpected upside of being out of touch thanks to the community's ongoing internet outage.

Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 5th, 2024

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2024/09/06

In this newscast: Homeowners in the Mendenhall Valley are cleaning up and making repairs after last month's record-breaking glacial outburst flood. They say it’s hard to know what kind of flood mitigation will protect them next year; Advocates for the "Ship Free Saturday" ballot initiative hope try to drum up support before the fall election.

Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024

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2024/09/05

In this newscast: A state agency that's been awarding annual grants to Alaska libraries cut some of its stipend this year, and smaller rural libraries may suffer; For Tongass Voices, Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds is an Inupiaq actor starring in "Cold Case" a play opening this weekend at Perserverance Theater.

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