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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.
October 07, 2022Newscast – Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022In this newscast: “Alaska Daily" premiers tonight and KTOO’s Rhonda McBride talked with two Alaska Native writers, who have worked on the show; Bristol Bay's record sockeye run shows big disparities in who gets to fish, and how the state’s limited entry system has affected the communities closest to the runs...more11minPlay
October 06, 2022Newscast – Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022In this newscast: Preliminary election results are out for both Hoonah and Gustavus in our listening area; Voting in Juneau's third by-mail election ended last night; Dozens of homeless residents are still camping at Anchorage’s Centennial Campground, even though the city officially closed the area on Saturday; The Kodiak Fishery Debate concluded last night with forums for U.S. House and Senate, and the four House candidates agreed on a lot, but their views differed on the Magnuson Stevens Act...more11minPlay
October 05, 2022Newscast – Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022In this newscast: Representatives from the Alaska Friends Conference - or Quakers - read a formal apology on Friday for a school and orphanage that the church opened in the late 1800s; There is a growing amount of opposition on Prince of Wales Island for a proposed timber sale of 300 acres near the town of Whale Pass; Kodiak’s fisheries debates kicked off last night with two challengers in the governor’s race, Les Gara and Bill Walker, but current Governor Mike Dunleavy did not attend Monday’s debates; Students in the Anchorage School District will have bus service on a rotating basis until further notice, due to a driver shortage...more10minPlay
October 04, 2022Newscast – Monday, Oct. 3, 2022In this newscast: Dozens of Ketchikan area residents were students at a Pennsylvania boarding school before it closed in 1918; More than 40 remote communities in Western Alaska saw impacts from a storm in mid-September; Over 30 people marched in Anchorage Thursday night to protest Anchorage police not having body-worn cameras...more11minPlay
October 01, 2022Newscast – Friday, Sept. 30, 2022In this newscast: This summer, the national branch of the Presbyterian Church issued a formal apology and made a commitment to pay $1 million in reparations for closing a church in Juneau in the 1960s; Community members of Whale Pass on Prince of Wales Island are fighting against the state’s plan to clear-cut nearly 300 acres of old-growth timber...more11minPlay
September 30, 2022Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022In this newscast: Gastineau Avenue has reopened to traffic after crews removed debris from the landslide; Friday is Orange Shirt Day, a day of remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools in the US and Canada, and there are events in Juneau to honor it; Learners of Kodiak Alutiiq are passing along a distinct culture and worldview to the next generations; This morning, President Biden made more disaster aid available to Alaska in response to the Western Alaska storm damage...more11minPlay
September 29, 2022Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022In this newscast: A look at Propositions 2 and 3 on the Juneau ballot; A conversation with a New York Times reporter who investigated the loss of COVID data in Alaska; The state health department sent out its last COVID-19 data summary today; Peltola will be the keynote speaker at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference next month...more11minPlay
September 28, 2022Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022In this newscast: A landslide in downtown Juneau took out homes, trees, and powerlines; About a dozen people were evacuated to a shelter on Monday after the landslide; A former Alaska State Trooper has been named as the state's new lead on solving missing and murdered Indigenous cases; In the Bering Strait region, children in households without running water are much more likely to get ear infections, says a new study; Today is Jeremy Hsieh's last day at KTOO: a look back...more11minPlay
September 27, 2022Newscast – Monday, Sept. 26, 2022In this newscast: Archeologists found a 10,000 year old fish weir on the coast of Prince of Wales Island; An explainer on Proposition 1 on Juneau's ballot this election; A Coast Guard crew encountered Chinese and Russian naval vessels in the Bering Sea; President Joe Biden approved Gov. Dunleavy's request for a federal disaster declaration; Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson has announced his fourth pick for director of the city's libraries...more11minPlay
September 24, 2022Newscast – Friday, Sept. 23, 2022In this newscast: Police are investigating the killing of a 55-year-old Juneau woman found on a popular trail; Voters weigh competing expectations of the effects of Juneau's mandatory real estate sales price disclosure rule; The Bureau of Land Management begins the scoping period for a supplemental environmental review of the proposed Ambler Road; A state judge says Rep. David Eastman may be ineligible to hold public office because of his association with the Oath Keepers; Another atmospheric river event is going to drench Southeast Alaska...more12minPlay
FAQs about KTOO News Update:How many episodes does KTOO News Update have?The podcast currently has 1,844 episodes available.