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• Newscast – Friday, July 26, 2024

  27-07-2024 02:41 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:Suicide Basin, a glacial lake tucked behind the Mendenhall Glacier, is a looming flood threat for Juneau residents this time of year. Glacial outburst floods or jökulhlaups have happened in the Mendenhall River every year for the last decade when the basin fills up with rain and meltwater throughout the summer until it drains downstream. Last year’s flooding was catastrophic. As the basin fill
  
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• As Suicide Basin fills up, this scientist is keeping an eye on it

  27-07-2024 01:19 via ktoo.org
  
  A research team led by hydrologist Eran Hood at the University of Alaska Southeast did a drone survey to map Suicide Basin shortly after it drained in August 2023, causing catastrophic flooding along the Mendenhall River (Photo by Anna Canny/KTOO)
  Suicide Basin, a glacial lake tucked behind the Mendenhall Glacier, is a looming flood threat for Juneau residents this time of year.
  Glacial outburst floods or jökulhlaups have happened in the Mendenhall River every year for the last decade. The
  
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• Southeast flying community mourns pilots lost in the Fairweather mountains

  26-07-2024 20:45 via ktoo.org
  
  Sam Wright (Photo courtesy of Annette Smith)
  A small plane carrying three passengers from Juneau to Yakutat disappeared over the weekend, launching a search and rescue effort that has so far yielded more questions than answers.
  Samuel “Sam” Wright, a seasoned pilot from Haines with decades of experience navigating southeast, took off from Juneau on Saturday. On board with him were Hans Munich and Tanya Hutchins, a couple returning home to Yakutat after a trip. Munich is also a longti
  
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• Peltola votes with GOP to criticize Kamala Harris for border security

  26-07-2024 20:12 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola in the halls of the Capitol in January. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola voted Thursday for a Republican resolution condemning the Biden administration — and specifically Vice President Kamala Harris — for their border security policies.
  Peltola was among six Democrats to vote for the non-binding measure. She and other Democrats running for re-election from red districts have repeatedly united with Republic
  
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• No charges against 3 Anchorage officers in fatal shooting of man who drew gun on them

  26-07-2024 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A parking lot at the Anchorage Senior Activity Center on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Anchorage police say they shot and killed an armed man Monday evening near the center. (Chris Klint/Alaska Public Media)
  The three Anchorage police officers who shot and killed a man they say drew a gun on them last month will not face criminal charges after body camera footage corroborated their accounts, according to the state.
  The state Office of Special Prosecutions released a letter Thursday
  
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• Ranked choice voting repeal effort survived legal challenges, qualifies for the ballot in November

  26-07-2024 17:34 via ktoo.org
  
  Pins supporting the repeal of ranked choice voting are seen on April 20, 2024, at the Republican state convention in Anchorage. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  Alaska voters are slated to have an opportunity this year to affirm or repeal the state’s use of ranked choice voting, Division of Elections officials confirmed on Wednesday.
  The news comes after Superior Court Judge Christina Rankin disqualified some of the signatures gathered by a repeal effort on Friday because th
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, July 25, 2024

  26-07-2024 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:Congresswoman Mary Peltola says she’s isn’t endorsing either presidential candidate this fall,
  A recent Supreme Court decision could have important implications for fisheries in Alaska
  
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• Juneau’s hospital closes its crisis care unit less than a year after opening it

  26-07-2024 01:47 via ktoo.org
  
  Bartlett Regional Hospital’s Aurora Behavioral Health Center opened its doors to adolescent crisis care patients on Dec. 18, 2023. (Katie Anastas/KTOO)
  A program designed to offer immediate care to adolescents in crisis at Juneau’s city-owned hospital closed last week after opening eight months ago.
  In an interview, Bartlett Regional Hospital spokesperson Erin Hardin said the closure is due to a lack of funding and staff. 
  “There is no dedicated subsidy funding available,
  
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• CDC amends new rules for dogs entering U.S.

  25-07-2024 22:47 via ktoo.org
  
  Osprey and Chinook, retired sled dogs, wait in the Juneau Animal Rescue parking lot for shots. (Photo by Claire Stremple/KTOO)
  The Center for Disease Control recently announced some new rules meant to keep rabies out of the U.S.
  Beginning Aug. 1, the rules will make it more complicated for dogs to come into the country. Among other things, the agency required all U.S. bound dogs be vaccinated, and come with a form signed by a vet within the last six months.
  After receiving what it described as &
  
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• Alaska teacher apprenticeship program approval unlocks millions to fuel workforce pipeline

  25-07-2024 22:28 via ktoo.org
  
  Apprentice Jana Esmailka works at the school in Anaktuvuk Pass and is pursuing teaching credentials with an additional Tribal Educator certification from Arctic Slope Community Foundation. (Image courtesy of ASCF)
  When the only preschool teacher left Harold Kaveolook School in Kaktovik, a village of around 250 people on the northern coast of Alaska, Chelsea Brower was in charge. It was January and she had been the preschool aide for about a year-and-a-half.
  “Being with the kids and trying
  
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• Anchorage police now have a 45-day deadline to release certain body camera footage

  25-07-2024 20:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Anchorage police officers enter the downtown headquarters on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media)
  The Anchorage Police Department’s revised body camera policy went into effect Monday.
  The policy says the chief of police still has discretion to keep recordings of certain incidents from becoming public, but the chief must publicly explain why in detail. Otherwise, the recordings, which may have redactions, should be published within 45 days. Incidents covered in
  
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• Permanent Fund Corp. board member resigns after email controversy

  25-07-2024 19:10 via ktoo.org
  
  Ellie Rubenstein, member of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. board of trustees, is seen during a special meeting on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Juneau. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  Ellie Rubenstein, the investment manager at the center of an email leak affecting the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. board of trustees, is resigning from her seat on the board, she said Wednesday.
  In May, a series of leaked emails suggested some corporation employees felt pressured by investment suggestions offered
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, July 24, 2024

  25-07-2024 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:Juneau residents will have a chance to learn more about the three finalists for Juneau’s next city attorney this week,
  Tommy, the mythical sole survivor of the Princess Sophia wreck, is cast in bronze atop a boulder at Tee Harbor,
  The Alaska Travel Industry Association confirmed that the state broke a cruise ship passenger record last year
  
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• Finalists for Juneau municipal attorney to be interviewed this week

  25-07-2024 01:36 via ktoo.org
  
  The City and Borough of Juneau law department. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Juneau residents will have a chance to learn more about the three finalists for Juneau’s next city attorney this week.
  The candidates will be interviewed by the Assembly and partake in an assessment exercise at a public meeting at 5:15 p.m. Thursday at City Hall.
  Two of the candidates live in Juneau, and one of them previously lived in Alaska. 
  Rebecca Convery is currently the associate deputy general counsel for the
  
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• ‘We got a bonus tour’: cruise passengers stranded in Canada by rockslide rejoin their ships in Haines

  24-07-2024 22:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Passengers are loaded onto a craft to be taken to a nearby cruise ship on Wednesday, in Haines. About 150 people, primarily cruise ship passengers who had disembarked in Skagway, were trapped by a landslide in Canada and then bussed several hundred miles to Haines to rejoin their cruises. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
  Updated at 11:45 a.m.
  At 4 a.m. Wednesday, just as the sun was starting to cast long blue shadows over downtown Haines – four massive Holland America tour buses moto
  
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• New statue at Tee Harbor commemorates mythical sole survivor of the SS Princess Sophia

  24-07-2024 22:05 via ktoo.org
  
  The Tommy statue at Tee Harbor was paid for and installed by an anonymous Juneau family (Photo by Anna Canny/KTOO)
  A new guardian is watching over the treacherous waters of Lynn Canal, where several historic shipwrecks happened. Tommy, the mythical sole survivor of the sinking of the SS Princess Sophia, is now cast in bronze atop a boulder at Tee Harbor.
  The Sophia — pronounced “so-FYE-ah” — set sail out of Skagway on October 23, 1918, carrying gold prospectors and others
  
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• National Republican group fights for Alaska’s House seat with attack ads targeting Mary Peltola

  24-07-2024 20:52 via ktoo.org
  
  Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, speaks to reporters on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, after her annual address to the Alaska Legislature. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  Alaska’s House race will be one of the hardest fought races in the country, according to a national group dedicated to getting Republicans elected into the U.S. House of Representatives.
  It’s for that reason the National Republican Congressional Committee launched its first television ads in the general election c
  
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• Oral arguments begin for former Alaska legislator’s voter misconduct case

  24-07-2024 19:51 via ktoo.org
  
  Former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux speaks with her attorney, Kevin Fitzgerald, during oral arguments related to LeDoux’s alleged voter misconduct on July 23, 2024. (Photo by Barbara Norton/Alaska Beacon)
  This week marks the beginning of a long-awaited trial for former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux, who is accused of voter misconduct and unlawful interference with voting in the 2018 primary and general elections for State House.
  The trial, scheduled for Thursday, comes more than four years after LeDoux a
  
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• Juneau police release names of officers involved in downtown shooting

  24-07-2024 04:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Caution tape blocks off an area of downtown Juneau after police shot a man on July 15, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Juneau Police Department has released the names of four officers involved in last week’s deadly shooting downtown. 
  A standoff between law enforcement and Steven Kissack, an unhoused man, on Front Street on July 15 ended when Kissack made a sudden movement and officers shot him. Police say he was lunging at an officer while holding a knife. 
  Kissack was later pro
  
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• An expert on abuse is visiting Southeast communities to train providers and first responders

  24-07-2024 03:35 via ktoo.org
  
  Andrew Hope Building/ Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
  An expert is visiting Southeast Alaska communities this week to talk to medical workers and first responders on documenting and reporting abuse. 
  And she wants to hear from community members, too.
  Angela Trujillo is a professor of nursing at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She’s worked with victims of abuse for years, and she helped design a training program with the Alaska Comprehensive Forensic Tr
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, July 23, 2024

  24-07-2024 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:The Juneau Police Department has released the names of the officers involved in last week’s deadly shooting downtown,
  Protesters took to the streets downtown to express their anger over the death of Steven Kissack,
  Anchorage police officials say they’ll enact a new body camera policy this week that mandates the release of footage of police shootings within 45 days,
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• Tongass Voices: Xixtc’ i see Ruby Hughes fuses pop culture and tradition in her sewing

  23-07-2024 23:27 via ktoo.org
  
  Xixtc’ i see Ruby Hughes with “Raven Transforms into Marilyn,” her award-winning beaded robe. June 24, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO).
  This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond.
  Xixtc’ i see Ruby Hughes won the Sewing Division of the Juried Arts show at Celebration earlier this year with her piece “Raven Transforms into Marilyn.” That’s right, Marilyn
  
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• Supreme Court’s trawl bycatch case casts a wide net

  23-07-2024 22:48 via ktoo.org
  Fishing boats in the Naknek River. (Jaylon Kosbruk/KDLG)
  A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision could have important implications for fisheries in Alaska.
  Last month, the Supreme Court overturned a legal principle called Chevron deference. For 40 years, that principle gave federal agencies wide authority to interpret the gray area in laws passed by Congress. Now, more of that authority will go to judges.
  The decision came after a legal battle over who should pay for bycatch monitors on trawl boats
  
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• Peltola declines to endorse Kamala Harris, won’t say who she’ll vote for

  23-07-2024 21:57 via ktoo.org
  
  Congresswoman Mary Peltola speaks to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature on Feb. 26, 2024. Such speeches are annual events for all three members of Alaska’s delegation to Congress. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Democratic Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola won’t say who she’s voting for this November after President Joe Biden stepped aside and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris.
  At a Zoom news conference with Alaska reporters Tuesday morning, Peltola said she’s &ldqu
  
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• Peltola declines to endorse Harris, says she’s ‘open’ to voting for Trump

  23-07-2024 21:57 via ktoo.org
  
  Congresswoman Mary Peltola speaks to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature on Feb. 26, 2024. Such speeches are annual events for all three members of Alaska’s delegation to Congress. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Democratic Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola won’t say who she’s voting for this November after President Joe Biden stepped aside and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris.
  At a Zoom news conference with Alaska reporters Tuesday morning, Peltola said she’s &ldqu
  
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• Ranked-choice repeal measure awaits signature count after Alaska judge’s ruling

  23-07-2024 20:57 via ktoo.org
  
  Buttons on display at a campaign event Monday, July 8, 2024, in Juneau, urge supporters to vote against Ballot Measure 2, the repeal of Alaska’s current election system. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  An Anchorage Superior Court judge on Friday disqualified 27 signature books filled out by Alaskans hoping to repeal Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system, leaving it unclear whether the issue has enough support to advance to a November vote.
  The Alaska Division of Elections must r
  
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• Former Permanent Fund CEO files to run for Juneau mayor

  23-07-2024 03:15 via ktoo.org
  
  Angela Rodell appearing on KTOO’s Capitol Views in 2016. (KTOO file)
  Former Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation CEO Angela Rodell is running for Juneau mayor. 
  Monday at 4:30 p.m. was the deadline to get on the ballot for Juneau’s Oct. 1 municipal election. Rodell is running against current Mayor Beth Weldon. 
  Rodell filed her paperwork with the Juneau Clerk’s office around 3 p.m. She says her leadership experience and background in finance can help Juneau overcome econ
  
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• Newscast – Monday, July 22, 2024

  23-07-2024 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:A Haines man and a couple flying from Juneau to Yakutat are missing after their plane never arrived at its destination over the weekend,
  Former Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation CEO Angela Rodell is running for Juneau Mayor,
  People who witnessed Monday’s deadly police shooting in downtown Juneau are carrying a lot of emotions, and a local mental health care provider has compiled resources to help r
  
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• ‘Devastated and angry’: Protestors call for change in the wake of deadly Juneau police shooting

  23-07-2024 02:35 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Left to right: Rowena Brockway, Jamiann S’eiltin Hasselquist, Eulaysia Bostrack, Savannah Brohard, Marley Webster, and Ariilana Shodda-Lee at a protest against the death of Steven Kissack in Juneau. July 21, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/22protest.mp3
  Sunday afternoon, a couple dozen people gathered across from the state Capitol building in downtown Juneau. Some held signs with messages like like “Justice for Steven” and &
  
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• Coast Guard ID’s trio who went missing flying from Juneau to Yakutat

  23-07-2024 02:20 via ktoo.org
  
  A U.S. Coast Guard HH60 Jayhawk helicopter flies over Juneau, Alaska, on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Photo by Mikko Wilson/KTOO)
  A Haines man and a couple flying from Juneau to Yakutat are missing after their plane never arrived at its destination.
  Coast Guard public affairs officer Mike Salerno said the owner and operator of the missing 1948 Beechcraft Bonanza is Samuel “Sam” Wright of Haines. Wright was flying two passengers, Hans Munich and Tanya Hutchins, to their home in Yakutat on
  
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• Coast Guard calls off search for trio who went missing flying from Juneau to Yakutat

  23-07-2024 02:20 via ktoo.org
  
  A U.S. Coast Guard HH60 Jayhawk helicopter flies over Juneau, Alaska, on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (Photo by Mikko Wilson/KTOO)
  Update 9 p.m.:
  The Coast Guard and partner agencies that have been looking for a missing plane bound for Yakutat called off the search late Monday evening.
  The plane, owned by longtime Haines pilot Sam Wright and carrying Yakutat couple Hans Munich and Tanya Hutchins, stopped emitting its radar signal near Mount Crillon at the southern end of the Fairweather Mountain Rang
  
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• Alaska Democratic Party endorses Kamala Harris after Biden steps aside

  23-07-2024 01:01 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska Democratic Party members at the state convention in a gym on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus in 2016. (Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media)
  Alaska’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the wake of Joe Biden’s announcement Sunday that he would drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
  Party officials met Sunday evening and coalesced behind Harris, according to a news release from the Alaska Democratic Party.
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• Lingít Word of the Week: Neech — Beach

  22-07-2024 21:21 via ktoo.org
  
  Families play on the beach at Auke Rec, June 1 2022, Juneau AK (Photo by Paige Sparks KTOO)
  This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each week, we feature a Lingít word voiced by master speakers. Lingít has been spoken throughout present-day Southeast Alaska and parts of Canada for over 10,000 years.
  Gunalchéesh to X̱’unei Lance Twitchell, Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and the University of Alaska Southeast for sharing the recorded audio for this series.
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• Leading Alaska Democrats support Kamala Harris to replace Biden on ticket

  22-07-2024 20:40 via ktoo.org
  
  President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, in a photo Biden posted Sunday on X. (From Joe Biden X account)
  Just hours after President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection, Alaska Democratic Party leaders moved quickly to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president. They also commended Biden for his endorsement of Harris.
  State Sen. Bill Wielechowski, one of the Legislature’s senior Democrats, said Biden had hoped to recover from
  
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• Some Alaska Republican candidates pledge to withdraw if they aren’t atop GOP votes in primary

  22-07-2024 20:36 via ktoo.org
  
  Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich, with sign-holding supporters, waves to Midtown Anchorage motorists on Election Day in 2022. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  In some Alaska races, Republican candidates have pledged to withdraw from the general election in November if they do not receive the top votes among fellow party members in the primary.
  The most high-profile pledge was made by Nick Begich III, who is running for Alaska’s single U.S. House seat. Begich publicly pledge
  
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• A Yakutat-bound charter flight is missing after leaving Juneau on Saturday

  22-07-2024 00:08 via ktoo.org
  
  An aircrew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter makes an approach on their return to Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, June 5, 2019. (Public domain photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Bradley Pigage/U.S. Coast Guard)
  Coast Guard staff are searching for a missing charter flight that left Juneau on Saturday bound for Yakutat but never reached its destination.
  There were three people on board, but Coast Guard public affairs officer Mike Salerno said they do not know anything more about them.
  The Coast Gua
  
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• Alaska State Troopers released the name of one officer involved in the shooting of a Juneau man

  20-07-2024 03:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Caution tape blocks off an area of downtown Juneau after witnesses say police shot a man on July 15, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The name of one of the law enforcement officers involved in the shooting death of a man in downtown Juneau earlier this week has been released. 
  Alaska State Troopers released the name of Alaska Wildlife Trooper Sergeant Branden Forst on Thursday. Forst was among several officers who fired their weapons during a confrontation with Steven Kissack on Monday. 
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• NAMI Juneau offers mental health resources to witnesses of downtown shooting

  20-07-2024 03:31 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Flowers lay in the street at a memorial for Steven Kissack in downtown Juneau on July 19, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/19trauma.mp3
  People who witnessed Monday’s deadly police shooting in downtown Juneau are carrying a lot of emotions — anger, confusion and grief, to name a few. A local mental health care provider has compiled resources to help residents deal with the trauma.
  William Sanders said he’s been struggling with
  
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• 9th Circuit Court judges hear oral appeals for king salmon troll fishery lawsuit

  20-07-2024 03:23 via ktoo.org
  Attorney Laura Wolf (bottom left) speaks on behalf of the State of Alaska in front of judges Mark Bennett, Milan Smith Jr., and Anthony Johnstone on July 18, 2024, from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. (Screenshot from video livestream)
  On Thursday, the 9th District Court of Appeals heard cases for and against a lower court ruling that threatened to halt Southeast Alaska’s troll fishery for king or chinook salmon. Although there’s no decision yet, a panel of ju
  
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• Newscast – Friday, July 19, 2024

  20-07-2024 03:14 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:The name of one of the police officers involved in the shooting death of a man in downtown Juneau earlier this week has been released. Alaska Wildlife Trooper Sergeant Branden Forst has been places on administrative leave.
  Monday (7/22) is the deadline to get on the ballot for Juneau’s October 1st municipal election.
  Insect infestations began tearing through Southeast Alaska in 2018, leaving behind
  
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• Juneau Afternoon: St. Vincent De Paul fundraiser, a new album featuring local Alaska artists collaborating with Killah Priest, and Juneau Drag-sponsored pageants are coming in August

  20-07-2024 02:22 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Lance Mitchell, Radiophonic, and Zansler in Studio 2K (Bostin Christopher/KTOO)
  On today’s program:St. Vincent De Paul on their upcoming whale watch fundraiser and updatesA new album featuring Killah Priest with local Alaskan hip-hop talent releases next week alongside an in-person concertMiss Gay Alaska America and Mister Alaska USofA MI pageants are happening in August
  Volunteer Andy Kline hosts the conversation. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3:00 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK and is rebroadcast at 7
  
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• With cruise traffic booming, Alaska’s travel industry looks to boost independent traveler numbers

  20-07-2024 00:16 via ktoo.org
  
  Tourists walk the docks in Juneau in July, 2023. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  It’s been a busy season for tourism in Alaska. This summer, some remote communities welcomed their largest cruise ships in history – while others turned thousands of tourists away due to wildfires.
  The Alaska Travel Industry Association hasn’t released numbers yet regarding how big of an economic impact visitors had in 2023, but it’s confirmed the state broke a cruise ship passenger record.
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• Two black bears euthanized in downtown Juneau

  19-07-2024 23:49 via ktoo.org
  
  A black bear claws its way into trash can in the Mendenhall Valley on June 12, 2017. (Photo by Carter Barrett/KTOO)
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game euthanized two black bears in downtown Juneau on Wednesday evening after they displayed aggressive behavior around garbage cans.
  Wildlife management biologist Carl Koch said he initially responded to reports of a yearling that was entering shops, including a jewelry store on South Franklin Street.
  “As we were looking for the little bear,
  
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• Garden Talk: Things to consider in your garden after a period of heavy rain

  19-07-2024 22:30 via ktoo.org
  
  A pair of slugs attack a squash blossom during a break in the summer rains. The devastated flower was removed and both slugs died a horrible death moments after this picture was taken. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  With all the rain this past week, fear of landslides and flooding has been at the forefront of many minds in Juneau. But what about the gardens? How does one respond to too much water permeating plant roots and garden beds? Master Gardener Ed Buyarski spoke with KTOO’s Chloe Plezn
  
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• Body discovered in a bus owned by a missing Southeast Alaska man

  19-07-2024 21:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska State Troopers station in Ketchikan. (KRBD file photo)
  A body was found inside a bus in Saxman, just south of Ketchikan, over the weekend. The bus belonged to Thomas Nelson, a Saxman man who has been missing since October, but troopers have not yet been able to positively identify the body.
  On Sunday, Alaska State Troopers say they detected a foul smell around the big white tour bus parked across from the Three Bears gas station. The bus has dark windows and rows of shelving blocking the
  
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• U.S. District judge hears food stamp backlog case against Alaska’s health department

  19-07-2024 19:49 via ktoo.org
  
  Food in Food Bank of Alaska’s Anchorage warehouse on April 21, 2023. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)
  U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason is considering a case that asks the court to make sure the state issues food stamps on time after years of chronic delays. She heard oral arguments Thursday in Anchorage.
  Ten Alaskans sued the state in January of last year because they said the Department of Health failed to provide food stamps, also known as Supplemental Nutrition Assi
  
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• Widespread technology outage disrupts Alaska 911 service, global flights and banking

  19-07-2024 19:38 via ktoo.org
  
  An airport information screen displays an error message rather than travel information at San Francisco International Airport on Friday after a computer problem unraveled systems in the U.S. and dozens of other countries. (Talia Smith/NPR)
  A technological meltdown left employees of airlines, banks, hospitals and emergency services around the world staring at the dreaded “blue screen of death” on Friday as their computers went inert in what is being described as a historic outage.
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• Juneau Afternoon: Alaska Travelgram, Kake Dog Salmon Festival, Green Crab Awareness Day, and Climate Fair for a Cool Planet

  19-07-2024 05:19 via ktoo.org
  On today’s program:Travel Tips with Scott McMurren from Alaska TravelgramKake’s Dog Salmon Festival on Saturday, August 3 with special information on a way for Juneau residents to attendCatamaran from Juneau to Kake for the day, call the KTC office at 907-785-3221, ext 309, ask for Nicole Wooton for information.Green Crab Awareness Day, which is happening on Friday, July 19Report sightings of European green crabs to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game hotline, 1-877-INVA
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, July 18, 2024

  19-07-2024 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:State officials say they’re working to improve the speed of their investigations into police shootings as public pressure mounts for the release of body camera footage of the incidents,
  A federal judge is sending Interior Department officials back to the drawing board after concluding that a Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale didn’t adequately consider the possible impacts on endangered beluga
  
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• Here’s what those work crews are doing at the Lawson Creek Bridge

  19-07-2024 02:14 via ktoo.org
  
  A car drives over Lawson Creek bridge on Douglas Highway on Monday, July 15, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Anyone driving along Douglas Highway this summer has likely noticed heavy equipment by the side of the road at Lawson Creek Bridge. 
  It’s part of stage three of the Alaska Department of Transportation’s Douglas Highway project. Most of the project has involved sidewalk improvements and road resurfacing up to this point, but what’s happening at Lawson Creek is different.
  
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