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• Oregon man dies in apparent fall after getting lost on hike near Ketchikan

  17-06-2026 20:36 via ktoo.org
  
  Ketchikan’s Deer Mountain on a clear day. (Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  An Oregon man died after getting lost on a hike and apparently falling off a cliff near Ketchikan, according to Alaska State Troopers.
  Searchers found the man, believed to be 49-year-old Portland resident Heath Didier, near Silvis Lake early Monday after he had gotten lost near the Deer Mountain trail on Sunday.
  Didier sent an alert Sunday night using a locator beacon with messaging capabilities saying he was lost, cold and wet
  
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• Senators weigh risk of gas pipeline project as special session deadline approaches

  17-06-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Senators chat during a break in a Senate Finance Committee meeting discussing the Alaska LNG project on June 16, 2026. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  State senators are closely examining a House-passed bill offering tax cuts for a North Slope natural gas pipeline as they near Friday’s deadline to end a special session on the issue.
  Many of their concerns center on a theme: what’s at risk for Alaskans if things don’t go according to plan?
  At a hearing on Tuesday, senators pre
  
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• Crude oil surfaced at historic Treadwell Mine. The state plans to study it.

  17-06-2026 03:10 via ktoo.org
  
  Marc Wheeler, Marc Thomas, Flannery Ballard and Jason Jones look at the Treadwell oil spill site on June 2, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
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  A short walk down the trail from the end of St. Anns Avenue on Douglas Island, a bright orange plastic fence circles the site of an old oil tank in the Treadwell Mine complex. 
  Juneau’s historic Treadwell Gold Mine is a beloved city park with trails and
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, June 16, 2026

  17-06-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:The City and Borough of Juneau is repairing two school roofs this summer that were damaged during this winter’s record-breaking snowstorm,
  Oil rose to the surface at Juneau’s historic Treadwell Gold Mine, and the state plans to assess how wide the pollution has spread this summer,
  A new report shows that the population regrowth of humpback whales after a heatwave a decade ago has been slow,
  Th
  
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• Repairs to 2 school roofs in Juneau expected to begin this summer

  17-06-2026 00:58 via ktoo.org
  
  Workers shovel snow off the roof of Sít’ Eetí Shaanáx – Glacier Valley Elementary on Jan. 8, 2026. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  The City and Borough of Juneau is repairing two school roofs this summer that were damaged during this past winter’s record-breaking snowstorms. 
  The Juneau School District closed Sít’ Eetí Shaanáx – Glacier Valley Elementary School and  evacuated Mendenhall River Community School during the
  
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• How a change to mail-in voting could impact Alaska’s most rural voters

  17-06-2026 00:42 via ktoo.org
  
  Platinum, Alaska on May 29, 2026. (Samantha Watson/KYUK)
  Platinum, on the Bering Sea coast, is a small town — it has fewer than 50 residents. But when it comes to local elections, administrators make sure that traveling even small distances within town doesn’t get in the way of voting.
  “We’ll go to elderly homes and present the ballots, because they, hard to get around for them,” explained Lou Adams, the acting tribal administrator for Platinum Village Traditional
  
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