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• Federal government to pay ANTHC $400M in settlement over unpaid administrative costs

  23-07-2026 22:41 via ktoo.org
  
  The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s Anchorage headquarters on June 30, 2021. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media)
  Alaska’s main Native healthcare organization is set to receive $400 million from the federal government for unpaid expenses after the U.S. Department of Justice settled a lawsuit the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium filed in 2021.
  The Department of Justice announced the settlement on Tuesday. ANTHC’s lawsuit claimed that for seven years, the fe
  
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• State removes 3,500 Alaskans from voter rolls, based in part on ‘old data’

  23-07-2026 21:58 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska Elections Director Carol Beecher was the main witness at a legislative hearing July 22, 2026. (Mikayla Finnerty/Alaska Public Media)
  The Alaska Division of Elections has moved thousands of registered voters to its “inactive” list due to suspicion that they are not citizens.
  State Director of Elections Carol Beecher acknowledged to legislators at a hearing in Anchorage Wednesday that the allegations may be based on “very old data.”
  She said her agency sent a letter
  
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• Newscast: Wednesday, July 22, 2026

  23-07-2026 19:28 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:Human remains were discovered inside a chest freezer at a Lemon Creek residence on Sunday.
  Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone are preparing for the annual flood expected soon. At a sandbag event in Mendenhall Valley on Saturday, some of that prep work is easier and faster than it was last year.
  Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski announced last week that her bill allowing five Alaska Nat
  
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• Theater Alaska opens ‘Cry It Out,’ a funny and heartfelt comedy about motherhood | Flood preparation and safety with the City and Borough of Juneau

  23-07-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau Afternoon – Recorded live on Wednesday, July 22, 2026
  Juneau Afternoon featuring Theater Alaska’s “Cry It Out” play opening this week, and CBJ Emergency Services on flood preparation and safety.
  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 PodcastsNPR
  
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• Seventeen governor candidates vie for votes in Alaska’s primary election

  23-07-2026 00:28 via ktoo.org
  
  A summary sheet is seen during ballot review on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, at the headquarters of the Alaska Division of Elections in Juneau. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  The first two votes in Alaska’s Aug. 18 primary election have already been cast.
  According to records published by the absentee and petition office of the Alaska Division of Elections, two voters — one in South Carolina and another in Hawaii — returned their ballots on July 17.
  Thousands more voters will cast the
  
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• Sen. Murkowski’s ‘landless’ bill advances to U.S. Senate floor

  23-07-2026 00:16 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski at the U.S. Capitol in 2023. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  A bill allowing five Alaska Native communities in Southeast to receive land entitlements passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
  Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski announced July 16 that her bill had advanced to the Senate floor.
  The legislation, called the Alaska Native Landless Equity Act, would allow Haines, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg and Tenakee to form Alaska Native corporati
  
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• Bycatch: What to know about the fish issue taking the spotlight in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race

  23-07-2026 00:07 via ktoo.org
  
  Pollock are transferred from a fishing boat into a processing plant in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, in January 2019. (Berett Wilber/KUCB)
  Calls to “ban trawling” or “end bycatch” in the pollock fishery are reaching a fever-pitch this election season. A survey last year by a progressive polling firm, Data for Progress, found 74% of Alaskans support a federal ban on trawling. The framing of the question surely contributed, but it still suggests an eye-popping leve
  
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