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• Juneau museum’s path forward remains hazy amid staff and budget cuts

  07-07-2026 21:30 via ktoo.org
  
  The Juneau-Douglas City Museum on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  After more than eight years leading the Juneau-Douglas City Museum as its director, Beth Weigel’s last day is Thursday, July 9. 
  Weigel was one of two full-time staff members laid off after the Assembly decided to cut $261,000 from the museum’s annual funding as part of an effort to address a multimillion-dollar recurring budget shortfall. 
  In her final weeks with the city, Weigel wanted
  
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• Probe finds letter from Homer Rep. Vance likely violated ethics law

  07-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
   
  The Alaska state House’s ethics committee found Homer Republican Rep. Sarah Vance likely violated state law by using publicly funded resources to criticize a local newspaper’s coverage of a Charlie Kirk memorial last year.
  The committee found probable cause that Vance’s use of publicly funded letterhead and an official social media account to object to the Homer News’ description of Kirk’s views violated a portion of the Legislative Ethics Act&
  
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• Newscast – Monday, July 6, 2026

  07-07-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/20260706-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast: A black bear entered Juneau’s historic Alaskan Hotel on Sunday,
  Ship traffic is growing in the Arctic and scientists are looking at how that affects marine mammals,
  A California couple set out to play a game of croquet on the lawn of every state capitol, but Alaska’s doesn’t have a lawn,
  The Alaska state House’s ethics committee says Homer Republican Representative Sarah Vanc
  
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• A black bear checked into Juneau’s historic Alaskan Hotel

  07-07-2026 02:18 via ktoo.org
  
  A black bear looks around the second floor hallway of the Alaskan Hotel on Sunday, July 5, 2026. (Photo courtesy of Queenie Lim)
  Listen to this story: 
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/06HotelBear-WEB.mp3
  A black bear entered Juneau’s historic Alaskan Hotel around noon on Sunday. Hotel staff said the bear let itself out with a loud crash just a short while later. 
  The bear crawled through the open, second story window of room 213, which is at ground level since t
  
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• Team to salvage site of Coast Guard helicopter crash in Sitka

  07-07-2026 00:07 via ktoo.org
  
  The MH-60 Jayhawk from Air Station Sitka went down on Harbor Mountain on June 22. (USCG)
  A team of experts is working to salvage a Coast Guard helicopter that crashed on Sitka’s Harbor Mountain last month. The U.S. Coast Guard said in a press release that the effort is being led by the Downed Aircraft Recovery Team from the Alaska Army National Guard out of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The group plans to assess the aircraft for its removal, recover the wreckage, and mitigate
  
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