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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February 22, 2025Newscast – Friday, Feb. 21, 2025
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In this newscast:
A survey of Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital staff last year shows they lack confidence in management and leadership and are experiencing higher rates of burnout and turnover,
The Juneau School District Board of Education began formal discussions on next school year’s budget based on an assumption of a $400 increase to the state’s per-student funding contribution,
A closely watched bill that would boost state funding for public schools took a step forward on Wednesday,
Ketchikan residents joined others around the nation in protesting the Trump Administration’s mass firing of federal employees Wednesday,
The Haines Assembly last week voted to send a friendly letter to its Canadian neighbors
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13min
February 21, 2025Newscast – Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025
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In this newscast:
Roughly three-quarters of the staff at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center have been laid off, according to former employees with knowledge of the situation,
Bartlett Regional Hospital’s board voted to incrementally pay back $2 million to the City and Borough of Juneau over the next three years,
Congressman Nick Begich III told the Alaska Legislature the state has become too dependent on federal spending,
A panel of civil rights and immigration advocates addressed how immigration policy changes from the Trump administration may affect Alaskans,
The Southeast island community of Petersburg called a town hall meeting last week to discuss the future of tourism, as they consider a potential partnership with a small cruise ship company
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13min
February 20, 2025Newscast – Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025
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In this newscast:
Federal workers in Juneau are among the thousands nationwide to receive layoff notices in the inboxes last week and over the holiday weekend. This is part of the Trump Administration’s continued efforts to downsize the government.
State lawmakers are considering a new student loan repayment program to attract former Alaskans to return and serve as teachers and state workers.
Alaska’s state ferry system continues to face stiff headwinds when it comes to staffing, state officials say.
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11min
February 19, 2025Newscast – Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025
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In this newscast:
Juneau Democratic Representative Sara Hannan introduced a bill that would impose a statewide tax on e-cigarette or vape products and raise the minimum purchasing age in Alaska. Versions of this bill have come before lawmakers multiple times in the past few years and public testimony was divided.
Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order to eliminate federally funded programs that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. That order could affect a wide range of programs in Alaska, from climate research to summer camps.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will now start in Fairbanks due to a lack of snow, race officials announced yesterday. The last-minute change follows alarms raised by some mushers over the weekend who said stretches of the trail were not safe for their teams.
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11min
February 15, 2025Newscast – Friday, Feb. 14, 2025
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In this newscast:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski introduced a bill that would keep the name Denali for North America’s highest peak;
Lawmakers are looking at Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposal to create a state Department of Agriculture;
Preschool students presented lawmakers with Valentines — and plea for policy-level support for childcare — at the state Capitol;
A Lingít language learning couple shares their love story and love language for Valentine’s Day;
Alaska’s Emergency Operations center cancels its annual test for the tsunami warning system.
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12min
February 14, 2025Newscast – Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025
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In this newscast:
Juneau’s city-owned hospital is in a much better financial position than it has been in years. For the last eight months, the hospital has been making steady positive income.
A deadly strain of bird flu is sweeping the nation. It has killed more than 20 million chickens since October, and that has scrambled the egg market. Alaska Public Media’s Ava White has more on how Anchorage businesses are coping with rapidly increasing egg prices along with supply problems.
Juneau’s city-owned hospital is in a much better financial position than it has been in years. For the last eight months, the hospital has been making steady positive income.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as President Trump’s director of national intelligence. She also announced that she intended to vote to confirm Robert Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services.
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11min
February 13, 2025Newscast – Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025
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In this newscast:
Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Carney defended the court system’s work and laid out plans for the future in a speech to state lawmakers,
Juneau’s Visitor Industry Director Alix Pierce shared data from an annual tourism survey that shows the conversation about the future of tourism’s growth is far from over,
An education compact is an agreement between tribal and state governments that allows tribes to run their own public schools, and Alaska’s Department of Education and Early Development is working with tribes to kick start a compacting program and give tribes sovereignty over education,
Alaska State Troopers arrested a Metlakatla man last week on six felony charges of sexual abuse of a minor, and they believe he may have had other victims
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13min
February 12, 2025Newscast – Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025
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In this newscast:
A team of researchers in Alaska have banded together to investigate a famous Alaska shipwreck. The Star of Bengal sank off the coast of Prince of Wales Island in 1908, taking more than 100 lives with it. The shipwreck highlighted a stark racial inequality in Alaska at the time– most of those who died were Asian cannery workers. Members of a 2022 expedition to the site of the wreck are going back in May. In this episode of Tongass Voices, team members Gig Decker and Jenya Anichtchenko share what they hope to uncover.
As lawmakers continue to work through an education funding package, members of the House are turning to another priority for the session: reforming the retirement system for state and local government employees. Alaska Public Media’s Eric Stone has this look at a bill that would return public-sector workers to a defined benefit pension system.
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11min
February 11, 2025Newscast – Monday, Feb. 10, 2025
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In this newscast:
The 2025 Native Youth Olympics Junior Celebration took place over the weekend in Juneau. Elementary school students from across the borough competed in events like the seal hop, two-foot high kick, Inuit stick pull and more.
The Alaska Senate passed a bill today that would allow teenagers to serve alcohol at restaurants. The bill would lower the minimum age to serve alcohol from 21 to 18.
The second annual Juneau Jazz Festival packed nearly thirty performances, workshops and events related to jazz in four days.
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11min
February 08, 2025Newscast – Friday, Feb. 7, 2025
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In this newscast:
The Alaska Senate unanimously joined the state House this morning in urging President Donald Trump to reverse his decision to rename North America’s tallest peak as Mount McKinley,
Searchers found the missing Bering Air plane on the sea ice southeast of Nome, but they did not find any survivors,
A lawsuit that clouded the future of homeschooling in Alaska for months last spring took on new life yesterday after the plaintiffs asked a judge to join four school districts as defendants in the long-running case,
Ketchikan is now officially classified as rural in the eyes of federal subsistence regulations, after a historic, landmark decision by the Federal Subsistence Board overruled a recent vote by the Regional Advisory Council to keep Ketchikan’s status as nonrural,
One of Alaska’s most famous contemporary bands Portugal. The Man, along with Samantha Crain and Ya Tseen sold out two shows this weekend to raise money for an effort to rebuild a Kiks.adi clan house in Sitka
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13min

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