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• 4 Alaska communities could get millions in FEMA disaster funding

  10-07-2026 23:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Chilkat Indian Village environmental staff stand on the 23 mile slide area during a site visit in 2025. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS)
  Four communities across Alaska could soon receive nearly $7 million in federal funding to better prepare for natural disasters.
  The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced late last month that it has set aside disaster-related funding for Juneau, the Bering Sea community of St. Paul, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Chilkat Indian Village, near Haines.
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• Group seeking to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting hit with campaign finance complaints

  10-07-2026 23:44 via ktoo.org
  
  A sample ballot from Alaska’s first ranked choice election, in 2022. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  Defenders of Alaska’s open primary and ranked choice ballot say the campaign to repeal the system is violating campaign finance and disclosure laws.
  That might sound familiar: A different repeal campaign, Alaskans for Honest Elections, was fined for multiple campaign finance violations in 2024.
  A fresh repeal measure will be on the November 2026 general election ballot, and again the
  
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• Bridge Adult Day Program | Wander the Wetlands

  10-07-2026 23:31 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Juneau Afternoon – Recorded live on Thursday, July 9
  Juneau Afternoon featuring the Bridge Adult Day Program, Wander the Wetlands event with Discovery Southeast and SE Alaska Land Trust, and Outburst podcast from KTOO News.
  Audio PodcastVideo LivestreamBostin Christopher hosts the conversation. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3:00 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK with a rebroadcast at 7:00 p.m. Listen online or subscribe to the podcast at ktoo.org/juneauafternoon.Subscribe to the podcast:Apple Podcast
  
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• Dunleavy vetoes limits on campaign donations, ensuring August vote to impose new caps

  10-07-2026 20:20 via ktoo.org
  
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks during a news conference on June 19, 2026. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill Thursday that would have reimposed limits on campaign contributions in state elections, ensuring an August vote on a similar ballot measure will go forward.
  The veto means that for now, donors can continue to give an unlimited amount of money to candidates for governor, the state Legislature and more. A federal appeals court ruled in 2021 that Alaska’s $500
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, July 9, 2026

  10-07-2026 03:06 via ktoo.org
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/20260709-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill today that would have reimposed limits on campaign contributions in state elections.
  The City and Borough of Juneau released a new evacuation zone map in preparation for the glacial outburst flood expected later this summer.
  The Alaska Beacon reports Alaskans who have been wrongfully convicted can now apply to claim Alaska Permanent Fund dividends that were withheld while
  
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• Juneau releases new glacial outburst flood evacuation map

  10-07-2026 02:19 via ktoo.org
  
  Benjamin Coronell and S’eiltin Jamiann Hasselquist with the Juneau Tlingit and Haida Community Council fill sandbags before the flood in 2025 (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
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  The City and Borough of Juneau released a new evacuation zone map in preparation for the glacial outburst flood expected later this summer. At a press conference on Thursday morning, public safety officials said the evacuation zone i
  
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• Alaskans with certain low-level marijuana convictions can keep record private under new law

  10-07-2026 01:43 via ktoo.org
  
  Buds of marijuana on display inside Mother Earth Wellness in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
  Alaskans who have been convicted for low-level marijuana possession will be able to apply to keep their records confidential so they do not appear in background checks, under a new law that takes effect in 2027.
  The change is part of a wide-ranging omnibus crime package that was approved by the Alaska Legislature and allowed to pass into law without Gov
  
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• Faced with surging power bills, the Haines landfill is going off-grid

  10-07-2026 01:18 via ktoo.org
  
  Community Waste Solutions General Manager Craig Franke said it should be cheaper to go fully off-grid than to rely on the local utility. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS)
  Once a week, employees at the Haines landfill scoop mountains of trash into a machine that squashes it into gigantic cubes.
  The baling process significantly reduces how much space the garbage occupies, solving a major real estate problem. But it also takes a lot of power, which historically has come from the local utility, Alaska Power and
  
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• Under new agreement, federal government limits obstacles to oil leasing in Alaska’s Arctic refuge

  10-07-2026 01:06 via ktoo.org
  
  A single caribou stands in 2019 amid cottongrass and other tundra plants near the Hulahula River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Alexis Bonogofsky/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  The federal government has agreed to permanently loosen rules for oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according to a draft settlement agreement filed this week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska.
  Adam Gustafson, an attorney with the U.S. Departme
  
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