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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 – Tuesday, April 16, 2024

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2024/04/17

In this newscast: The Juneau planning commission agreed to let an outdoor food court expand into the empty lot that once housed the demolished Elks Hall building; The National Native Boarding School Healing Coalition will conduct interviews to document abuse at boarding schools; Alaska Public Media reporter Eric Stone on the Superior Court ruling that found a key benefit to families who choose certain types of homeschooling unconstitutional, and what it means

Newscast – Monday, April 15, 2024

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2024/04/16

In this newscast: Peter Pan Seafood announced Friday that it was ceasing operations; A partisan brawl is about to erupt in Congress over the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Alaska's US senators are seemingly split over it; Tongass Voices: Jeremy Kane on the philosophy of bowl-making

Newscast – Friday, March 12, 2024

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2024/04/13

In this newscast: Cancer patients in Juneau who need gynecological surgery no longer have to leave town to get it; The Alaska House of Representatives passed its $6 billion operating budget today

Newscast – Thursday, April 11, 2024

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2024/04/12

In this newscast: City officials in Juneau have proposed a municipal spending plan for next year that slightly raises the property tax rate; Many Alaskans have to travel a long way for certain healthcare treatments, but a bill in the state House aims to close that distance by expanding the list of providers Alaskans can see remotely; And from Wednesday night's Alaska Folk Fest mainstage: Costa's Poets Thieves and Liars

Newscast – Wednesday, April 10, 2024

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2024/04/11

In this newscast: A group of activists in Juneau filed paperwork in the hopes of putting a question on the 2024 local election ballot about whether the city should begin enforcing "Ship-free Saturdays"; The Sitka Assembly is calling for the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium to reconsider a decision it made to close the home health department; A taste of the 49th annual Alaska Folk Festival

Newscast – Tuesday, April 9, 2024

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2024/04/10

In this newscast: The Norwegian Bliss docked in Juneau this morning, marking the beginning of the 2024 cruise ship season; State education officials continue to dispute the federal government's claim that Alaska didn't fund schools equitably during the pandemic; Athletes from across Alaska and some from the Lower 48 came to Juneau to compete in the seventh annual Traditional Games

Newscast – Monday, April 8, 2024

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2024/04/09

In this newscast: Some projects the city plans to fund with marine passenger fees are being contested by cruise line officials; A look ahead at this year's cruise season, which starts tomorrow; Tongass Voices: Joey Scoggins and Khrystal Brouillette-Gillam and the Juneau Hostel

Newscast – Wednesday, April 3, 2024

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2024/04/04

In this newscast: This cruise season, money collected from cruise passengers could be set aside to help Juneau's tourism businesses cut down on fossil-fuels; A group of students in Sitka is taking a class on navigating the Federal Subsistence Board process; Democrats in the U.S. House almost always vote in line with party leaders, but Congresswoman Mary Peltola has a different voting record

Newscast – Tuesday, April 2, 2024

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2024/04/03

In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau has negotiated a conceptual agreement with cruise lines that could limit the number of daily passengers that come off their ships and into Juneau; It's also moving forward with a plan to relocate its seasonal campground to a different site further from downtown; The House Finance Committee is working through its latest draft of the state budget, after lawmakers rejected a roughly $3,500 PFD Thursday; The Southeast Regional Health Consortium is suing

Newscast – Monday, April 1, 2024

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2024/04/02

In this newscast: Tongass Voices: Shiggoap Alfie Price is a language learner and teacher who believes in using the power of community to strengthen the language revitalization movement; The Alaska Legislature has relaunched a caucus focused on providing support to children from birth to adulthood

Newscast – Friday, March 29, 2024

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2024/03/29

In this newscast: A new letter from the federal government says Alaska's education department owes almost $30 million to four school districts; Three airlines are adding nonstop flights from Anchorage to new destinations this summer

Newscast – Thursday, March 28, 2024

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2024/03/29

In this newscast: This week is Alaska's tsunami preparedness week and one kind of tsunami might become more common because of human-caused climate change, and experts say we are not prepared for it; Sleetmute's school is at risk of collapse and the community is worried that could mean the end of the Upper Kuskokwim River village as well

Newscast – Wednesday, March 27, 2024

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2024/03/28

In this newscast: Kensington Gold Mine near Juneau has reported a spill of more than 100,000 gallons of mine waste that happened back in January; This month, the Biden administration approved a disaster declaration to Wrangell's tribal government. This is the first such declaration for an Alaska tribe; Researchers at NOAA are refining a method to collect data about what fish were present in an area up to two days after those fish have moved on

Newscast – Tuesday, March 26, 2024

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2024/03/27

In this newscast: Monday, Juneau celebrated the Hindu holiday Holi in the streets with Bollywood dancing and throwing colors in the air; A Ketchikan-raised master weaver is helping to create a pipeline of weaving teachers through a first-of-its-kind apprenticeship program in Sitka; The Alaska House of Representatives took a step towards raising the state's age of consent from 16 to 18 years old

Newscast – Monday, March 25, 2024

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2024/03/26

In this newscast: Alaska author Lily Tuzroyluke was recognized as one of USA Today's women of the year earlier this month; Tongass Voices: Producer for dozens of artists around Southeast Alaska, Joshua Laboca, and his 9-year-old daughter Harmony also produce their own music together

Newscast – Friday, March 22, 2024

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2024/03/23

In this newscast: How much money Alaska’s public schools will get from the state is up in the air. That’s after lawmakers fell one vote short of overriding Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a funding boost and reform package; A regional working group in Southeast Alaska wants to create a landslide warning system - a tool that will monitor the region’s hazardous weather and warn residents of potential risks of slides. Sitka already has a system, but the new working group is brainstorming ways to serve

Newscast – Thursday, March 21, 2024

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2024/03/22

In this newscast: Alaska has submitted a first-of-its-kind plan to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions to the federal government; Curious Juneau: donating to thrift stores can be a challenge in Juneau. Anna Canny looks into why.

Newscast – Wednesday, March 20, 2024

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2024/03/20

In this newscast: The 75th annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament is underway this week, with more than 500 people from across Southeast Alaska playing or spectating nearly 50 games; It's more and more difficult for Alaska prisoners to win discretionary parole, and advocates and parolees went to the state Capitol to make the case that the parole board is considering the wrong factors

Newscast – Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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2024/03/20

In this newscast: Around 100 people faced the Alaska State Capitol last night chanting in support of a ceasefire in Gaza and in opposition of Gov. Dunleavy's proposed bill that would crack down on unpermitted street protests; The Alaska Legislature voted Monday to sustain Gov. Dunleavy's veto of a bipartisan education bill that would have significantly increased funding for public schools; In Ketchikan, the borough assembly members are considering changing the name of two of their schools. The

Newscast – Monday, March 18, 2024

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2024/03/19

In this newscast: A technology that typically listens for volcanic eruptions and nuclear explosions will now be used to keep track of avalanches in Juneau; Tongass Voices: Nimmy Philips came to Juneau as an engineer, but 3 years ago, she decided to buy a restaurant. Now she applies her engineer's precision to her recipes

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