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• Local bar association offering free legal help sessions on MLK holiday, AWARE looking for couples for 10-week relationship course, Mudrooms 2nd annual adult-only event.

  15-01-2026 22:07 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Juneau Afternoon recorded Wednesday, January 14, 2026:
  The Juneau Bar Association, in conjunction with the Alaska Bar Association, is hosting its annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Legal Aid Clinic at two locations in Juneau. Check the Alaska Bar Association website for details.AWARE is offering a 10-week relationship course specifically designed for partners to strengthen their bond before challenges arise. The course begins January 22. Information and sign-up are available at the AWARE website.
  
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• Priorities, predictions and plans going into the legislative session with Juneau’s Sen. Jesse Kiehl

  15-01-2026 21:43 via ktoo.org
  Sen. Jesse Kiehl, D-Juneau, speaks during a town hall at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé on Monday, June 9, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  With the second regular session of the 34th Alaska Legislature beginning on Tuesday, it’s a good time to check in with members of Juneau’s delegation to talk priorities, predictions and plans for the session.
  Sen. Jesse Kiehl (D-Juneau) spoke with KTOO’s Mike Lane about what he expects to see this year.
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• Priorities, predictions and plans going into the legislative session with Juneau Sen. Jesse Kiehl

  15-01-2026 21:43 via ktoo.org
  Sen. Jesse Kiehl, D-Juneau, speaks during a town hall at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé on Monday, June 9, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  With the second regular session of the 34th Alaska Legislature beginning on Tuesday, it’s a good time to check in with members of Juneau’s delegation to talk priorities, predictions and plans for the session.
  Sen. Jesse Kiehl (D-Juneau) spoke with KTOO’s Mike Lane about what he expects to see this year.
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• State seeks input for plan to boost logging in Haines

  15-01-2026 20:30 via ktoo.org
  The Baby Brown and Glacier Side timber areas, left, are south of Glacier Creek, a main tributary to the Klehini River. (Courtesy of Derek Poinsette)
  The state Department of Natural Resources is moving forward with its effort to overhaul the longstanding plan that dictates how it manages one of Alaska’s three state forests.
  Agency staff are in Haines this week to meet with a range of local groups to solicit input for the new roadmap, which would open the entire Haines State Forest to loggin
  
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• Murkowski wants to reassure Denmark, but it’s not clear Congress is with her

  15-01-2026 20:14 via ktoo.org
  Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, center, and U.S. senators spoke to reporters at the Hart Senate Office Building on Jan. 14, 2026. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski was among a group of senators who met with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland Wednesday, trying to provide an assurance that they couldn’t get from the White House: That Greenland is safe from a U.S. military incursion.
  “I think it’s important to
  
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• Tlingit and Haida tribal members concerned by tribal government corporation presence in Guantánamo Bay

  15-01-2026 17:00 via ktoo.org
  Migrants detained in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown are led to a plane bound for Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)
  Southeast Alaska’s largest tribe has earned nearly $40 million from U.S. Navy contracts in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba – money some tribal members are concerned comes from supporting immigrant detention. 
  While tribal corporation leadership says their operations are separate from the detention center on the mil
  
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• Residents in avalanche zones return home after Juneau clears last evacuation advisory

  15-01-2026 01:43 via ktoo.org
  The Behrends slide path on Mount Juneau on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Residents living in avalanche-prone downtown neighborhoods got the all-clear to return home Wednesday after the city lifted its last remaining evacuation advisory this morning. 
  Mary Amor was finally preparing to leave Juneau’s emergency shelter at Centennial Hall. She’s been staying there with her brother since last Friday, when the city issued an evacuation advisory for resident
  
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• Newly proposed legislation aims to curb Alaska bycatch

  15-01-2026 01:24 via ktoo.org
  The proposed legislation would establish a fund for fishermen to purchase updated technology and trawl gear to limit seafloor contact and bycatch. (Theo Greenly/KUCB)
  Alaska’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday that aims to reduce bycatch in parts of southwest Alaska using better marine data, technology and gear.
  The Bycatch Reduction and Research Act, introduced by U.S. Sens. Dan Sullivan, Lisa Murkowski and Congressman Nick Begich, would address research gaps in en
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026

  15-01-2026 01:00 via ktoo.org
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  In this newscast:Residents living in avalanche-prone downtown neighborhoods got the all-clear to return home today after the city lifted its last remaining evacuation advisory this morning,
  Avalanche risk rose over the weekend, as more snow and then rain pounded Juneau. Meanwhile, staff at the city’s emergency warming shelter for unhoused residents relocated operations three times in two days,
  A Juneau-born athlete
  
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