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• U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear case that could have upended Alaska subsistence fishing

  13-01-2026 19:53 via ktoo.org
  The Kuskokwim River is seen in this image captured by scientists working on NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE. (Peter Griffith/NASA)
  The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the state of Alaska’s latest attempt to alter Alaska’s decades-old system of subsistence fishing management.
  In a one-sentence order Monday, the court said it will not review a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled in August that Alaska cannot manage fishing on a st
  
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• Mount Juneau gets new radar avalanche detection system as Behrends path remains under evacuation advisory

  13-01-2026 03:23 via ktoo.org
  Avalanche forecasters view drone footage avalanche paths at City Hall on Jan. 12, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Catherine Melville).
  An avalanche evacuation advisory remains in effect for one neighborhood that sits beneath Mount Juneau in Alaska’s capital city. And now, for the first time, the city is using a radar detection system to track avalanches that rumble down the mountain, thanks to state money freed up by the city and tribe’s disaster declaration last week. 
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• Newscast – Monday, Jan. 12, 2026

  13-01-2026 03:00 via ktoo.org
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/20260112-News-Update-1.mp3
  In this newscast:An atmospheric river struck Juneau over the weekend, after previous back-to-back storms buried the city in several feet of snow,
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska recently launched a new foundation,
  For the first time, Juneau is using a radar detection system to track avalanches that rumble down the mountain, thanks to state money freed up by the city and tribe’s
  
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• Tlingit and Haida launches nonprofit to fund new $90M tribal education campus in Juneau

  13-01-2026 00:34 via ktoo.org
  This is a rendering of the conceptual design of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s education campus. (Courtesy/Raeanne Holmes)
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska recently launched a new foundation. Its main goal right now is to fundraise for a new education campus in Juneau. 
  The tribe announced the formation of the Tlingit & Haida Foundation last month. Jamie Gomez is the executive director of the nonprofit.&nb
  
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