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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July 10, 2024Newscast – Tuesday, July 9, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240709-News-Update.mp3
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
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11min
July 09, 2024Newscast – Monday, July 8, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240708-News-Update.mp3
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 a new study published last month through NOAA fisheries
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11min
July 06, 2024Newscast – Friday, July 5, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240705-News-Update.mp3
In this newscast:
The Alaska Supreme Court handed the state a victory last week when it reversed a lower court ruling that had thrown out two key homeschool laws as unconstitutional, but there’s a key question the court didn’t address: whether Alaska correspondence schools can allow parents to spend public money at private schools,
An electrical fire damaged one of three spiral freezers aboard the Northline Seafood floating processing barge over the weekend, leaving the barge at a reduced capacity just ahead of the peak of the region’s massive sockeye run
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11min
July 04, 2024Newscast – Wednesday, July 3, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240703-News-Update.mp3
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
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11min
July 03, 2024Newscast – Tuesday, July 2, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240702-News-Update.mp3
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
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11min
July 02, 2024Newscast – Monday, July 1, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240701-News-Update.mp3
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
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11min
June 29, 2024Newscast – Friday, June 28, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20240628-News-Update.mp3
In this newscast:
The Biden Administration finalized a decision blocking the controversial Ambler Road project,
In the last 14 months, four men have died while working in the oil fields on the North Slope. Before that, the area hadn’t seen a death in about five years
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11min
June 28, 2024Newscast – Thursday, June 27, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20240627-News-Update.mp3
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?
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11min
June 27, 2024Newscast – Wednesday, June 26, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20240626-News-Update.mp3
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
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11min
June 26, 2024Newscast – Tuesday, June 25, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20240625-News-Update.mp3
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 petition to put the question out to voters
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11min

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