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The latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom in Juneau.

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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.

Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024

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2024/09/04

In this newscast: A widespread internet outage in Sitka continued into the weekend; Underwater anthropologist Kelly Monteleone kicks off Sealaska Heritage Institute's fall lecture series this week; A new project helps provides communities with data on their local permafrost and erosion risks.

Newscast – Thursday, August 29, 2024

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2024/08/30

In this newscast: A new partnership between a cruise ship company and a local Alaska Native corporation aims to improve internet in the downtown area during the cruise season; Juneau’s Echo Ranch Bible Camp is among the places where a California man allegedly abused boys over the span of decades, according to a recent lawsuit. Now, the people who say they were victims of Bradley Earl Reger are trying to hold the institutions where the abuse took place accountable; More than three dozen entities have

Newscast – Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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2024/08/29

In this newscast: Teams of scientists, engineers and meteorologists continue their work assessing the steep hillside in Ketchikan following Sunday's fatal landslide; The annual State of the Climate report is out; Officials say the Covenant House youth homeless shelter in Anchorage helps young people with skills to live on their own; Climate change is altering where wild berries grow in Alaska, and when, so researchers are gathering data

Newscast – Tuesday, August 28, 2024

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2024/08/28

In this newscast: US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has finalized a decision to maintain protections for 28 million acres of wilderness lands across Alaska, known as "D-1" lands; Ketchikan residents describe a chaotic scene in the minutes and hours after a landslide ripped through a residential neighborhood; A new study released by NOAA deepens the connection between human-caused climate change and the die-off of Bering Sea snow crabs; Tongass Voices: Sh Dei Wooteen Jeni Brown on speaking up

Newscast – Monday, August 26, 2024

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2024/08/27

In this newscast: Southeast Alaska health officials say cases of pertussis, commonly called whooping cough, are up in Juneau; Emergency crews responded to a large landslide that killed one person and destroyed several houses in Ketchikan on Sunday; A bellweather trial is began today in a fight over whether the parent companies of two Alaska grocery chains can merge; Petersburg residents are ramping up their efforts to track and combat the invasive European green crabs; Southeast Alaska’s king

Newscast – Friday, August 23, 2024

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2024/08/24

In this newscast: A new program in Gustavus will provide residents with money for heat pumps; The family of a man who was shot and killed by law enforcement in Juneau in July say they’re still waiting for answers; Alaskans have limited access to medicinal and recreational psychedelics, but an upcoming conference, called Arctic Visions, will address ethical, cultural and logistical approaches to psychedelic practices,; A ballot measure that could repeal Alaska’s ranked choice election system is

Newscast – Thursday, August 22, 2024

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2024/08/23

In this newscast: Illegal student parking is on the rise near Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé; Bartlett Regional Hospital's nationwide search for a new CEO has narrowed down to three candidates; The three members of Alaska's Congressional delegation are calling for action from President Biden on transboundary mining in British Columbia; Some lawmakers have tried, but all failed to pass a law to delegate the responsibility of making new specialty license plates to the Alaska Division of

Newscast – Wednesday, August 21, 2024

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2024/08/22

In this newscast: KTOO speaks with the new executive director of the Glory Hall, who's looking forward to adding more units to its supportive housing program; A coalition of Southeast Alaska tribes is asking for a pause on reopening a large gold and silver mine near the Canadian border

Newscast – Tuesday, August 20, 2024

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2024/08/21

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly unanimously passed an emergency resolution last night freeing up more than a million dollars of city funding for more flood response and recovery; The purpose of Tuesday's primary election is to narrow each field to four candidates, but few races have more than four to start with; Tongass Voices: James Houck on the joy of pedaling people through Juneau

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