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• State education board OKs UAA program aimed at tackling school psychologist shortage

  26-01-2026 23:13 via ktoo.org
  Students exit a school bus outside of Juneau-Douglas High School: Yada.aat Kalé on Aug. 15, 2025 (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  The State Board of Education and Early Development unanimously approved a school psychology masters program at the University of Alaska Anchorage aimed to address the state’s shortage of school psychologists. The approval took place during the board’s special virtual meeting on Thursday.
  This comes after the board voted it down last October after some mem
  
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• Candlelit vigil lights downtown Juneau following Alex Pretti shooting in Minneapolis

  26-01-2026 22:47 via ktoo.org
  Residents gather for a candlelit vigil at Overstreet Park on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  More than 200 Juneau residents gathered downtown at Overstreet Park Sunday evening for a candlelight vigil. They were there to honor a man who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during protests against ongoing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. 
  “There’s a lot of grief, there’s a lot of anger — a
  
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• Wetlands are warming as fast as the atmosphere. That’s bad news for salmon.

  26-01-2026 07:15 via ktoo.org
  Researchers used air and water temperature from sites around the Copper River Delta to gauge climate impacts on wetlands. (Amaryllis Adey)
  Before juvenile salmon make their way to the sea, they grow and feed in freshwater, including wetlands, for anywhere between a few months and several years.
  But new research finds that as air temperatures rise with climate change, the water that flows through coastal Alaska’s ponds and marshes is warming rapidly, too. That could spell trouble for Pacif
  
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• The Pentagon is reviewing a program that helps Alaska Native corporations get federal contracts

  26-01-2026 07:02 via ktoo.org
  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on April 9, 2025. (Senior Airman Madelyn Keech/U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Madelyn Keech | Department of Defense)
  The federal government is reviewing a business program that brings contracting opportunities to Alaska Native corporations and tribes.
  U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a video posted on X last week that his department will review the 8(a) Business Development Program. The program falls under the federal Small Business Administration a
  
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