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One man's mission to go to every National Park site across the country brought him to Southeast Alaska; Former Juneau school principal sentenced to 60 days in prison after physically assaulting a student; Alaska to receive up to $23 million from Meta in landmark child consumer protection settlement; Petersburg hosts first ever "bio blitz" to identify invasive species
In this newscast: U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is touring Alaska this week; Four people died in a plan crash in the Kenai Peninsula community of Seldovia on Wednesday; A group of Juneau volunteers has been restoring cemeteries on Douglas Island for five years; State and federal officials are investigating a large oily sheen on the west side of Cook Inlet
In this newscast: The University of Alaska Southeast is seeing a boost in enrollment of out-of-state students; A niche subset of scientists has started exploring a new and controversial question: whether its possible to save glaciers by engineering them; Tongass Voices: Holly Huber on competing for Miss USA
In this newscast: A Superior Court judge heard oral arguments this morning over the legality of the city's planned redevelopment of Juneau's Telephone Hill; A former Juneau fire captain has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for assaulting his stepdaughter, and KTOO examines how the city dealt with having a public safety employee charged for child assault; Around 250 U.S. Coast Guard…
In this newscast: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to end Juneau's annual glacial lake outburst flood before the flood of 2030; The state approved the first segment of a new access road for the controversial New Amalga gold mine in Juneau; The Alaska Marine Highway System will finally receive $410 million in federal grant money; Federal investigators say a charter plane crashed into a remote…
In this newscast: Eight people died Thursday after the charter plane they were flying in crashed on a remote cape in Southwest Alaska; Just days after opening to students, the main structure on a new playground at a Juneau School District campus is closed; More than two years after Juneau's only compounding pharmacy closed its doors, a new one is taking its place -- literally; Seventeen-year-old…
In this newscast: The U.S. Department of Agriculture filed to rescind the Roadless Rule on Tuesday. A rescission would allow new road construction in undeveloped parts of national forests across the country, including the Tongass National Forest; Today is the first day of school for Juneau students in first through twelfth grade. KTOO's Mike Lane interviewed Shawn Arnold about the start of the…
In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau did a preliminary assessment of residential damage form the glacial outburst flood that crested Thursday; Two Democrats and two Republicans are leading in early primary election results in the race for governor; Early results show Alaskans approving a ballot measure seeking to reinstate limits on individual campaign contributions by a roughly 3-to-1…
In this newscast: Alaska Wildlife Troopers arrested long-time Chilkat Valley resident Steve Kroschel on Monday, nearly a year after the state first filed charges against him related to alleged animal cruelty; A former Juneau fire captain has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for physically assaulting his stepdaughter; The Juneau Assembly voted last to sell City Hall to its neighbor,…
In this newscast: Juneau’s Egan and Vanderbilt intersection is back open after months of construction; The Juneau School Board approved a new lease for after-school childcare at Sayéik: Gastineau Community School last Thursday; With Alaska’s primary election on Tuesday, money is pouring into Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, and not just for the two candidates running multi-million-dollar campaigns.…
In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly will decide the fate of Juneau’s current City Hall building at its meeting on Monday night; The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Friday that it will go through a fast bidding process, like the TV show “Shark Tank,” to select an industry partner that will help end Juneau’s glacial outburst floods. This comes just one day after Juneau avoided catastrophe…
In this newscast: The glacial outburst flood has officially crested at 14.7 feet; KTOO reporter Alix Soliman provides an update on the flood in the Mendenhall Valley; An Alaska Seaplanes aircraft made an emergency landing in the Mendenhall River in Juneau late Thursday morning, during the glacial outburst flood.
In this newscast: A Juneau construction company could have to pay $350,000 for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act by dredging and dumping in several wetlands without permits; There are over a thousand manmade stream crossings in the Tongass National Forest that aren't up to standard. But on Prince of Wales Island, in southern Southeast, an environmental nonprofit is replacing a handful of…
In this newscast: The University of Alaska is eliminating an out-of-state tuition rate; The building and land that house the Juneau Makerspace on Douglas Island are for sale, but the community workspace isn't closing its doors; A Gustavus family's sailboat suddenly sank in Glacier Bay National Park last week. The family swam to shore, and later learned a humpback whale could be the culprit; The…
In this newscast: It’s been almost six months since Junior Siufanua was last seen in Juneau. He had been staying at a local shelter for unhoused people before he was reported missing by staff on Feb. 25; Seventeen candidates are running to be Alaska’s next governor. Alaskans are already heading to the polls for early voting in the Aug. 18 nonpartisan, pick-one primary, which will narrow the field…
In this newscast: After two years of sitting empty, Juneau’s Marie Drake building will soon see new life; the New Amalga gold mine in Juneau secures a fast federal permitting process; Contract negotiations between University of Alaska and its staff union begins; The summer Southeast commercial Dungeness crab season ended three weeks early
In this newscast: Another man was taken into custody in Juneau for immigration enforcement purposes and held in Lemon Creek Correctional Center this week; In addition to races for governor, the U.S. House and Senate and the state Legislature, Alaskans will face a ballot initiative when they vote in the primary this August; After a legal battle that went all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court, Dan…
In this newscast: Juneau police have confirmed the identity of a man whose remains were discovered in a chest freezer last week at a home in Lemon Creek; Three people are dead after a fiery plane crash Tuesday night near McCarthy; A volunteer group freed a humpback whale that was entangled in a gillnet near Petersburg last night; Juneau veteran says he was denied First Amendment rights during July…
In this newscast: For the second year in a row, the Juneau Assembly has rejected putting two bond debt proposals on the local election ballot; It's been one year since a Juneau officer was caught on camera violently slamming a man to the ground during an arrest; A new class developed by whale biologists and marine pilots in Southeast Alaska will soon teach mariners how to avoid hitting humpback…
In this newscast: Forecasters predict the glacial lake responsible for producing Juneau's annual glacial outburst flood will fill a bit later than initially forecast; Eight candidates are vying for three open seats on the Juneau Assembly during this fall's local election; The upcoming school year is less than one month away and district leadership says operations will remain largely the same; A…
Southcentral Alaska's largest natural gas utility is asking state regulators to consider allowing it to develop more natural gas storage; A Juneau mom's sourdough microbakery in Mendenhall Valley has quickly risen in popularity; Recently discovered fossils in northern Alaska show rodent-like mammals roamed the land 70 million years ago, and they've been given Inupiaq names
A Juneau public transportation survey closes Sunday; The University of Alaska Southeast is partnering with Minnesota-based Mitchell Hamline School of Law to allow Alaska students to get a law degree locally; The Juneau Assembly plans to tackle major local election topics on Monday; Investors that want to ship bulk water out of Sitka are asking for an extension to gather funding for a plan; The CDC…
