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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 – Wednesday, July 17, 2024

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2024/07/18

In this newscast: Resurrection Lutheran Church held a vigil for Steven Kissack, and many community members are still reeling after he was shot and killed by law enforcement; Archeologists excavating an ancient pit house near Delta Junction say the artifacts they've found have helped them understand more about the people who've lived there for 14,000 years

Newscast – Monday, July 15, 2024

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2024/07/16

In this newscast: A landslide in downtown Juneau displaced at least seven people in the Strasbaugh Apartments building late Sunday morning amid heavy rain; A federal judge in Juneau sentenced two members of a Washington state family who sold over 1 million dollars of fake Alaska Native art in Ketchikan; In the wake of five police shootings in Anchorage in less than two months, the Party for Socialism and Liberation-Anchorage is pushing for the city to establish an independent police review board to

Newscast – Friday, July 12, 2024

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2024/07/13

In this newscast: The start of the 10-day period to file to run for a seat on Juneau's Assembly or Board of Education opened today; Communities across the state like Ketchikan are developing tough-on-crime policies to try to reduce the crime rates, and KRBD stopped by a community organization that's using a different method to reduce recidivism; The U.S. Coast Guard encountered four Chinese military ships in the Bering Sea over the weekend

Newscast – Wednesday, July 10, 2024

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2024/07/11

In this newscast: An Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development study shows that Juneau has the highest average cost of a single-family home in Alaska; New rules for bringing dogs into the United States are set to take effect next month, and will have some unique impacts in Alaska; A fisherman has died in Bristol Bay's sockeye salmon gillnet fishery

Newscast – Tuesday, July 9, 2024

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2024/07/10

In this newscast: A citizen's committee charged with reviewing books for the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District has completed its work; The Alaska chapter of the ACLU is stepping up its pressure on the Alaska Department of Corrections over what it says are improper restrictions on inmates' access to private conversations with their attorneys; Tongass Voices: Lovely Colours on playing for their hometown

Newscast – Monday, July 8, 2024

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2024/07/09

In this newscast: Dozens of jobs previously cut from the Juneau School District due to a lack of funding are now being added back for the coming school year; Cool, rainy weather over the long holiday weekend aided firefighters working to contain wildfires around the state; The Alaska Marine Highway System's proposed winter ferry schedule has just one ferry serving Southeast Alaska's main route, and it leaves some communities out; North Pacific sablefish are a single genetic population, according to

Newscast – Wednesday, July 3, 2024

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2024/07/04

In 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

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2024/07/03

In 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

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2024/07/02

In 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 – Thursday, June 27, 2024

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2024/06/28

In 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

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2024/06/27

In 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

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2024/06/26

In 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 third

Newscast – Monday, June 24, 2024

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2024/06/25

In 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

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2024/06/22

In 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

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2024/06/21

In 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

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2024/06/19

In 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

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2024/06/18

In 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

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2024/06/15

In 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

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2024/06/14

In 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

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2024/06/13

In 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

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