KTOO News Update

In this newscast: Ketchikan summer campers are spending time each week learning about Filipino culture; After a couple of setbacks, Youth Advocates of Sitka can now move forward with plans to create a residential treatment program for teens and young adults experiencing homelessness; Alaska could be getting more ticks as the climate warms

In this newscast: Short-term rental owners in Juneau voiced opposition to a proposed registration program this week; Sitka's Mt. Edgecumbe volcano is under closer scrutiny this summer, as research teams follow up on the earthquake "swarm" which occurred under the mountain in the spring of last year; The first place finishers in the Race to Alaska sailed into Ketchikan early Wednesday

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly has approved a city budget based on the lowest property tax rate in decades;

Tribes across the nation and all across Alaska are celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act; Staff from Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic in Homer came back from Soldotna Pride to vandalized pride flags at their facility

In this newscast: The Juneau Planning commission has voted to change the name of South Seward Street in downtown Juneau to Heritage Way. Heat pumps installers in Southeast Alaska struggle to keep up as demand grows. A team of researchers around Price of Wales Island are using an underwater robot powered by AI to look…

In this newscast: The Knik Tribe Chief Scientist has found very high levels of biotoxins in samples from muscles and clams in Southern Alaska,; The Port of Seattle shut down its cargo operations Saturday due to labor conflicts and the Port of Alaska says it could affect the state; A Sterling man survived a brown bear attack north of the Skilak Lake Road area this weekend

In this newscast: A thousand people gathered at Auke Bay in Juneau on Saturday to welcome the Hokule'a and her crew to Juneau. Now the crew is preparing to embark on a four-year journey around the world; Overdose deaths have been consistently rising in Alaska for the past several years, mostly due to illegal fentanyl; The Federal Subsistence Board unanimously opposed two special action requests that would dramatically limit the harvest for the Western Arctic Caribou Herd for communities in the herd's range

In this newscast: Rear Admiral Megan Dean now commands the US Coast Guard in Alaska, and she may be the first woman to do so; The National Marine Fisheries Service hasn't ruled out the possibility of opening the summer troll season for king salmon in Southeast Alaska; Tribal members and Ketchikan residents gathered to awaken and launch a canoe designed by a late master carver and artist

In this newscast: Juneau voters will likely see just one bond proposal on the October ballot After a year of tracking birds across the state, biologists announce this year’s first casualty of a wild bird to avian influenza Frustration in communities affected by this month’s closure of the Yukon River to salmon fishing

In this newscast: MIT teamed up with Coastal Helicopter and Juneau Ice Research Program to pull off a high-stakes drop for future seismometer research; Those who own short-term rentals may soon have to register them with the city; Weaver Anna Ehlers, a Juneau elder, received Doctorate of Fine Arts from UAS

In this newscast: Almost 50 red dresses that were symbols of missing and murdered Indigenous women have disappeared in Ketchikan; The federal government announced Thursday that it plans to help identify areas of Alaska state waters best suited for mariculture; Two people remain missing after a charter vessel capsized near Sitka over Memorial Day weekend; A plan to map the seafloor of the entire planet will see researchers operating out of Nome this summer and fall