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The latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom in Juneau.... more
FAQs about KTOO News Update:How many episodes does KTOO News Update have?The podcast currently has 1,844 episodes available.
September 08, 2023Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly is asking the state Department of Transportation to do something -- quickly -- to fix one of the city's most dangerous intersections; Dillingham is currently without corrections officers for its jail; Increased traffic in the Bering Sea from Russian exporting oil to China and India has made Alaska communities wary of oil spills; The knowledge, work, and art of Indigenous healers and medicine people in Alaska is being featured at the Anchorage Museum...more11minPlay
September 07, 2023Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023In this newscast: A former Alaska state coroner and magistrate judge died last month in Juneau; Those displaced by last month's glacial outburst flood in Juneau are still dealing with the mental health fallout...more11minPlay
September 06, 2023Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023In this newscast: A cat that has been missing since a house collapsed into the Mendenhall River is now home safe; A village on the Kuskokwim River is eroding into the water, and water plant is at risk. Officials visited to set up a temporary plant; The EPA has announced $2.5 million in grants to three Alaska Native Corporations...more11minPlay
September 02, 2023Newscast – Friday, Sept. 1, 2023In this newscast: Thousands of Alaskans are at risk of losing their Medicaid benefits this year, many due to paperwork issues; An Alaska organization called Choosing Our Roots is helping LGBTQ+ youth find safe homes...more11minPlay
September 01, 2023Newscast – Thursday, August 31, 2023In this newscast: The Juneau church that has run the city's emergency cold weather shelter for two years isn't planning to do it again this year, and city leaders are trying to figure out what to do instead; The Skagway Borough Assembly postponed decisions on what to do with land that was the site of a boarding school for Indigenous children...more11minPlay
August 31, 2023Newscast – Wednesday. Aug. 30, 2023In this newscast: Gov. Dunleavy vetoes bill to ban harmful ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting foams. Sitka records higher rates of cigarette butt litter linked to record numbers of cruise visitors. Elevated drug prices for fentanyl attract drug traffickers to the state. After a cold, poor growing season for pumpkins, one farmer still managed to show…...more10minPlay
August 30, 2023Newscast – Tuesday, August 29, 2023In this newscast: Alaska remains near the top of the list of expensive places to live in the country; The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has denied a petition to put Southeast Alaska wolves on the endangered species list...more11minPlay
August 29, 2023Newscast – Monday, August 28, 2023In this newscast: Juneau's largest event space is reopening next month, after nine months of renovations; At last week's meeting, Petersburg's Assembly set a new precedent for the sale of Borough-owned tidelands; The people who live along the Yukon river have known about dinosaur tracks there for years...more11minPlay
August 26, 2023Newscast – Friday, August 25, 2023In this newscast: A 2017 tugboat sinking in Sitka produced a $1 million settlement, because it came at a critical time in the herring lifecycle; Two hikers who survived more than a week in the woods near Chena Hot Springs are back home; The Alaska Department of Public Safety and the Anchorage Police Department announced that they are publishing new quarterly reports about missing Indigenous people...more11minPlay
August 25, 2023Newscast – Thursday, August 24, 2023In this newscast: A standard homeowners insurance policy excludes many of Alaska's most common disasters; There's a new marker along Anchorage's Coastal Trail that's part of the Indigenous Place Names Project; A crew member on an American Seafoods factory trawler died at sea last week, likely from an ammonia leak...more11minPlay
FAQs about KTOO News Update:How many episodes does KTOO News Update have?The podcast currently has 1,844 episodes available.