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Newscast – Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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2024/04/24

In this newscast: Alaska's Division of Forestry released its plan for selling timber in Southeast Alaska for the next five years and an environmental group in the region is frustrated with the public process; A recent paper in Nature attempts to set a new timeframe of when humans first appeared in Southeast Alaska, but for Southeast Alaska Natives, it's just one piece of a much bigger puzzle

Newscast – Monday, April 22, 2024

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2024/04/23

In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau is creating a task force to tackle if -- and how -- they should be regulated; Juneau's emergency warming shelter closed last week and the city doesn't have a campground for people to move to this year; Tongass Voices: Holly Huber on what it takes to be Miss Alaska Volunteer

Newscast – Friday, April 19, 2024

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2024/04/19

In this newscast – The Tongass National Forest has grown, with the addition of 5 acres of important fish and wildlife habitat Earlier this month, the Denver Post reported that Lingit tribal members have been requesting cultural items back from the Denver Art Museum in Colorado for years – to no avail

Newscast – Thursday, April 18, 2024

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2024/04/18

In this newscast: Scientists and Alaska Native leaders released a report this week that claims plastic waste in the Arctic is contaminating essential resources of Indigenous communities Khalil English shares his research on the silverweed, a seemingly inconspicuous plant with deep roots in Pacific Northwest history

Newscast – Wednesday, April 17, 2024

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2024/04/17

In this newscast: Wrangell’s Nolan Center hosted a screening of Blue Ticket on Monday. It’s a film of a play that KTOO documented back in 2019. The play’s author, Maureen Longworth, documented how gay men in Juneau were exiled from the city in the 1960s. The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community is a collective of Indigenous…

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

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