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• Juneau updates its avalanche messaging as snowstorm smashes local records

  01-01-2026 03:05 via ktoo.org
  A Twin Lakes resident shovels snow off of a roof on Dec. 31, 2025. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  The City and Borough of Juneau is warning residents about urban avalanches a bit differently this year in an effort to help residents in the downtown avalanche zone understand how they should respond to the danger. 
  The city posted its new avalanche information webpage on Monday, the day before it issued an avalanche advisory for the Behrends neighborhood and Thane Road that remains in effect.&nb
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025

  01-01-2026 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20251231-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:The City and Borough of Juneau is warning residents about urban avalanches a bit differently this year,
  After Juneau residents helped raise more than $1 million this fall, a local boy with a rare genetic disease will be able to receive a potentially life-changing gene therapy in the New Year,
  Alaska will get $272 million from the federal government next year to upgrade its rural health system,
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• Winter weather leaves Pelican without seaplane, ferry access for weeks

  01-01-2026 02:13 via ktoo.org
  Pelican Harbor (2020 Heather Bauscher)
  Like many people during the holiday season, Sitkan Gaylen Needham was planning on spending Christmas with her adult children, who planned to fly in from Pelican.
  However, due to record snowfall, low visibility and cold temperatures, Pelican has been without seaplane access since Nov. 28, cutting the Southeast community of 91 people off from the rest of the region.
  “We lived out there full time in the 70s, and we had hard winters out there th
  
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• Juneau child’s clinical trial set to proceed in new year after community raises more than $1 million

  01-01-2026 00:47 via ktoo.org
  Cade Jobsis and his mom, Emma, at the (Photo courtesy of Emma Jobsis)
  After Juneau residents helped raise more than $1 million this fall, a local boy with a rare genetic disease will be able to receive a potentially life-changing gene therapy in the new year.
  For the past two years, 4-year-old Cade Jobsisʼs mother Emma Jobsis has been raising money to allow scientists to restart clinical trials that previously showed promising results treating AP4 Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, or SPG50.&nb
  
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