KTOO News Update

In this newscast: Juneau city leaders and business owners reflect on a record breaking tourist season; The ACLU of Alaska calls attention too the high rates of death in Alaska prisons; Ketchikan residents say goodbye to a beloved building after a catastrophic fire

In this newscast: Alaska-based storytellers will take the stage tomorrow at the Crystal Saloon to share what diaspora and belonging mean to them; About 150 people signed-in to the public hearing for the Ambler Road Draft EIS last week; A recent cluster of new HIV diagnoses originating in Fairbanks has pushed the Alaska Division of Public Health to investigate barriers to HIV prevention and testing

In this newscast: Alaska’s largest federally recognized tribe is opening a new office in Washington state; The CDC is working with Alaska’s division of public health to better understand why the Fairbanks and interior region has seen a cluster of new HIV cases over the past two years; Vitus Energy, the company that owns a tugboat now known to have leaked diesel fuel into the Kuskokwim River, tells state authorities the Frances Snow spilled 203 gallons

In this newscast: A historic downtown Juneau building that hosted the first territorial Alaska Legislature is being demolished; A Cordova-based artist’s Alaska State Museum showcase, "Painting at the End of the Ice Age," is a retrospective that places his paintings in the context of human-caused warming and glacial retreat

In this newscast: A retired vessel owned by the fuel distribution company Vitus Energy had become partially submerged, emitting a large sheen into the Kuskokwim River; This year, the Alaska Federation of Natives included a lengthy knowledge sharing session – think of it as a community conversation. Many speakers called on younger generations to get involved in these difficult conversations and  young people who were there, listened; When the state of Alaska transferred dozens of public guardianship cases to a nonprofit last year, the results included extended hospital stays, thousands of dollars in debt and lapses in public benefits for some of Alaska’s most vulnerable residents

In this newscast: Drug use prevention efforts among teens in Ketchikan get a federal funding boost; Alaska's historically high rate of job openings; Ongoing efforts to bring sacred Lingít clan property back to Wrangell

In this newscast: After a months-long search, the City and Borough of Juneau has named Derek Bos as Juneau's new police chief; City officials are considering expanding public Wi-Fi during Juneau's tourist season; State leaders say they're working on streamlining the SNAP application process; Petersburg students learn marksmanship and responsibility at a target shooting tournament

In this newscast: Southeast communities felt the shudder of two earthquakes last Friday evening. The pair of magnitude 5-plus quakes happened about 45 minutes apart near Glacier Bay National Park. And more than 3 dozen smaller aftershocks followed through the weekend,; Although the Wrangell Institute buildings were leveled more than a decade ago, the school’s memory looms large; A legal back and forth between the Kodiak Island Borough and the Kodiak Area Native Association over property taxes is headed to the Alaska Supreme Court. A superior court judge ruled in favor of the association last month

In this newscast: This month, Governor Dunleavy's energy security task force released a draft of their statewide energy plan, which lays out broad intentions for renewables and calls for the controversial Alaska LNG pipeline; At the Anchorage stop in her Road to Healing tour, Secretary Deb Haaland heard from a Lingít elder who asked her to dig deeper in her understanding of boarding school trauma; Bogoslof volcano is showing signs of unrest that could lead to an eruption

In this newscast:  “Kuhaantí” means “orphan” in Lingít, and itʼs now the title of a childrenʼs book written entirely in the language. It includes no English translations and it’s the first of its kind in decades; Caribou in the Western Arctic are struggling. And a man-made obstacle in their migration path might be adding to their troubles; Young Alaska Native people from around the state learned how to filet and prepare salmon in a series of workshops at the Elders and Youth conference in Anchorage this month