KTOO News Update

By KTOO Public Media

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

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December 14, 2019Newscast – Friday, Dec. 13, 2019
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2019/12/ktoo-update-2019-12-13.mp3
In this newscast:
A new company managed by Armstrong Oil and Gas wins a 1 million-acre federal lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska,
an executive with Norwegian Cruise Line visits with Juneau neighborhood associations and business community,
slashed ferry service jeopardizes Angoon’s free and reduced-cost meal program for children,
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s bill to create an advisory committee on Arctic maritime issues advances to Senate floor, and
demographers warn Census Bureau officials that a new technique that tries to balance privacy and accuracy interests may sow distrust among researchers.
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December 13, 2019Newscast – Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2019/12/ktoo-update-2019-12-12.mp3
In this newscast:
Congress finally agrees to let the Coast Guard begin building new icebreakers as China and Russia assert themselves in the Arctic,
Planned Parenthood files a lawsuit challenging a state law prohibiting medical professionals other than doctors to perform abortions,
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration wants to filter inmates mail through photocopiers to address a contraband issue,
Ocean Beauty Seafoods says it has accepted an offer to sell its shuttered processing plant in Petersburg,
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announces $16.5 million in grants going to five Alaska Native communities,
a state prosecutor in Fairbanks explains why he won’t reopen a case against an man accused of repeatedly raping and beating a woman in 2015,
Shishaldin Volcano in the Aleutians briefly erupts,
federal transportation officials say the pilot of a fatal plane crash in Girdwood was flying intoxicated,
Sea-Tac airport officials opt out of using facial recognition technology,
federal regulators are setting up 988 as a phone number to a suicide prevention hotline, and
Alaska school activities officials remove a bathing suit decency rule that led to a Dimond High School swimmer’s controversial disqualification.
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December 12, 2019Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2019/12/ktoo-update-2019-12-11.mp3
In this newscast:
Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposes a budget that depends on spending down state savings,
the governor suspends parts of a plan to cut financial assistance for disabled and elderly Alaska residents,
stakeholders get together for training in Juneau to better resolve complicated child welfare cases,
a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Don Young says he doesn’t support the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump,
the Department of Transportation works on plans to build an airport in Angoon,
a commercial airline in British Columbia has its first flight of a fully electric seaplane, and
the Alaska National Guard brought its Operation Santa Claus to Napakiak.
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December 11, 2019Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019
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In this newscast:
State budget veterans put governors’ ambitious budget plans in a context,
state lawmakers discuss how the state uses compacts to empower tribes to provide public services,
Ketchikan officials push back against a state plan to relocate its trooper dispatch center to Anchorage,
the trans-Alaska pipeline passes the milestone of 18 billion barrels pumped,
NOAA releases the 2019 Arctic Report Card,
some White Castle burgers are getting recalled because of possible listeria bacteria, and
hundreds of people stop by the Governor’s Mansion for the annual Christmas open house.
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December 10, 2019Newscast – Monday, Dec. 9, 2019
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2019/12/2019-12-09-ktoo-update.mp3
In this newscast:
The state’s latest forecast for revenue is down,
half of the Alaska Marine Highway System fleet is now out of service,
Alaska public safety officials update an online list of missing people with decades of old cases,
the City and Borough of Juneau announces a new director of public works and engineering,
Native corporation Doyon signs an oil and gas exploration agreement with Hilcorp,
state and federal officials tally up over $300 million from summer wildfire fighting expenses in Alaska,
wildlife biologists set up traps to kill at least one problem bear in Sitka,
a man gets buried and saved in an avalanche on Flattop Mountain,
SpaceX delivers Christmas presents and cargo for experiments to the International Space Station, and
dense fog affects air and road travel in Juneau.
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December 07, 2019Newscast – Friday, Dec. 6, 2019
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2019/12/ktoo-update-2019-12-06.mp3
In this newscast:
An expert tells the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. Board a few bad years could jeopardize the ability to pay dividends and support state government,
the federal government awards another $36 million in earthquake disaster recovery grants,
a private business proposes building a new marine haul out in Sitka,
Petro Star is set to begin transporting fuel by rail between Anchorage and Fairbanks,
a man from Kaktovik agrees to plead guilty to killing a polar bear without harvesting any of its meat,
the Seward Peninsula community of White Mountain has gone without regular postal service since late October, and
NATO-affiliated researchers say social media companies are failing to stop phony accounts and manipulated activity.
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December 06, 2019Newscast – Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2019/12/ktoo-update-2019-12-05.mp3
In this newscast:
Several service members are hospitalized after a small Coast Guard boat collides with a small Navy boat near Kodiak,
about 24 marine highway system employees will be “relieved of service” after the ferry Aurora is put in layup,
the University of Alaska Board of Regents rejects a consolidation plan the Legislature had backed,
Gov. Mike Dunleavy asks for public input on a bill to set up a framework for tribal governments to operate K-12 schools,
the latest quarterly report from the company trying to get the proposed Pebble Mine permitted flags significant cash flow problems,
the family of former Juneau man Cody Eyre files a wrongful death lawsuit after law enforcement shot him to death in Fairbanks,
upcoming research will show the last advancing glacier off the Juneau Icefield is now in retreat,
the annual holiday open house at the Governor’s Mansion is scheduled for Tuesday, and
new research documents a spike in emergency room visits for mostly minor injuries that correspond to the rise of smartphones.
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December 05, 2019Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2019/12/ktoo-update-2019-12-04.mp3
In this newscast:
Parents wrestle with impossible “what ifs” after their 19-year-old daughter’s death,
Wrangell’s Evergreen Elementary School wins national recognition as a “distinguished school,”
the city of North Pole encourages residents with contaminated groundwater to sign up for municipal water service,
Quinhagak closes its airport to all night flights due to disabled runway lights,
an Anchorage company fires and disciplines workers caught on video throwing Amazon delivery packages,
58 mushers sign up for the 2020 Iditarod,
for the first time a Native American justice is appointed to Washington state’s highest court, and
the Tennessee Aquarium gets an electric eel to light up Christmas lights.
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December 04, 2019Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2019/12/ktoo-update-2019-12-03.mp3
In this newscast:
Gov. Mike Dunleavy appoints an acting commissioner of the Department of Revenue,
Alaska is now the 50th state to confirm its first case of the vaping related illness,
The Wilderness Society produces and sells out a show designed to compel young people to care about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s king salmon forecasts for Stikine and Taku rivers probably won’t allow for harvesting next year,
a commercial fisherman from Naukati Bay pleads guilty to fishing in closed waters and falsifying a harvest report,
the National Weather Service issues a winter weather advisory for Juneau, and
the creators of the “Baby Shark” video announce they’re developing a version in Navajo.
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December 03, 2019Newscast – Monday, Dec. 2, 2019
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2019/12/ktoo-update-2019-12-02.mp3
In this newscast:
All 60 seats of the Alaska Legislature are filled for the first time since August after an Anchorage Republican is sworn into the House,
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski dedicates funding to a bill in Congress intended to help law enforcement investigate cold cases of missing and murdered indigenous women,
President Donald Trump’s pick to be Alaska’s next Federal District Court judge scores poorly in an Alaska Bar Association poll,
the Alaska Bar Association flags a coming legal brain drain in the state as older lawyers retire,
a new study identifies environmental hazards threatening rural Alaska Native communities,
officials say more buildings were damaged by last year’s earthquake in Chugiak-Eagle River where regulations are more lax than in an Anchorage zone,
the Fairbanks City Council considers raising the tax on vaping products to be the same as tobacco products, and
a Delta Junction High School sprinter becomes the first athlete from that community to be offered a chance to compete at a Division 1 school.
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