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• Glenfarne releases Alaska LNG cost estimates, as skeptical legislators press for details

  04-06-2026 23:55 via ktoo.org
  
  Glenfarne Alaska LLC President Adam Prestidge speaks to lawmakers and staff during a lunch-and-learn presentation on Feb. 11, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  The developer of the Alaska LNG project released its first specific public cost estimates Wednesday for the proposed 800-mile gas pipeline and associated infrastructure.
  The developer, Glenfarne, told state senators it estimates the full project will cost between $44.5 billion and $54.5 billion.
  The first phase of the project, the pi
  
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• It’s no joke: A second Dan Sullivan says he really does want to be Alaska’s next senator

  04-06-2026 22:47 via ktoo.org
  
  Dan Sullivan smiles for a photo at Petersburg’s Airport Bypass Road on June 2, 2026. (Taylor Heckart/KFSK)
  A political unknown from Petersburg filed for Alaska’s U.S. Senate race last week. His name is Dan Sullivan, the same name as Alaska’s sitting junior senator. And they’ll both be on the same ballot for Alaska’s primary in August.
  The new candidate sparked interest and accusations almost as soon as he announced his campaign.
  Both Sullivans are running as Re
  
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• Juneau’s first tribal casino soft opens on Douglas Island amid lingering legal questions

  04-06-2026 22:29 via ktoo.org
  
  Amber Forrester plays at one of the electric slot machines at the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska Two Coppers Casino on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  After years of planning, the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska soft-opened a casino on Douglas Island this week. It’s Juneau’s first casino.
  Amber Forrester sat at the end of a long row of electric slot machines, pressing a bright white spin button
  
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• Alaska one of only 2 states to see increase in SNAP participants in 2025

  04-06-2026 21:15 via ktoo.org
  
  A shopper passes by a sign welcoming SNAP recipients at a Fred Meyer store in Anchorage on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Alaska is one of only two states that saw increased participation in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program last year.
  The increase in SNAP users could be attributed to changes the state has made to improve access to the federally funded food assistance program, according to the state Department of Health.
  The increase comes despite most oth
  
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• ‘You’d be crying at the pump’: This Alaska village’s gas was $8.44 — before the Iran war

  04-06-2026 19:32 via ktoo.org
  
  At the pump in the Western Alaska village of Hooper Bay, unleaded gas costs $8.44 a gallon and heating fuel is $9.24. (Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal)
  This story is co-published by Northern Journal and KYUK.
  Every few weeks this winter, 75-year-old Harvey Joe, a Yup’ik Elder in the Western Alaska village of Hooper Bay, climbed onto his snowmachine.
  Dragging a sled with a fuel drum on top, he’d bump 20 miles across the tundra to the neighboring village of Chevak.
  In Hooper Bay, on th
  
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• Deep sea observation station that tracks climate change set to be pulled from Gulf of Alaska

  04-06-2026 03:20 via ktoo.org
  
  Researchers recover an old mooring from Ocean Station Papa during an Ocean Observatories Initiative expedition. (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Travis/WHOI)
  The National Science Foundation plans to yank a long-standing ocean observation station from the sea floor far off the coast of Alaska next year. 
  It’s one station in an entire ocean monitoring system slated to be dismantled as part of the Trump Administration’s rollback on federal science programs that help researchers study the
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, June 3, 2026

  04-06-2026 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260603-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:Celebration officially starts with a Grand Entrance tonight,
  Carvers have developed a new method to build traditional canoes without relying on old growth trees,
  Some cruise ship companies in Southeast Alaska say customers are concerned about Hantavirus, but state health officials are more worried about other diseases,
  Dozens and dozens of candidates officially kicked off their campaigns for governor, Con
  
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• An evolution in traditional canoe carving had its maiden voyage this week

  04-06-2026 02:29 via ktoo.org
  
  Ḵaayák’w Brandon Gomez introduces the Wind Dancer yaakw and asks permission to come ashore at Auke Recreation Area on June 2, 2026. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
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  On Tuesday afternoon, canoes — or yaakw — arrived and paddlers asked permission to come ashore. Ten yaakw landed on the beach at Auke Recreation Area, the site of a former Lingít village.
  One was different from the others, th
  
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