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• Tongass Voices: Holly Huber on competing for Miss USA

  26-08-2026 21:35 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Miss Alaska USA 2026 Holly Huber poses outside KTOO. She soon traveled to Miami to compete in the Miss USA pagaent. August 7, 2026. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond.
  Holly Huber is the first Miss Alaska USA from Juneau. After being crowned this summer, she’s currently competing on a national stage in Miami. The Miss USA competition is running this week, and Mis
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, August 25, 2026

  26-08-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
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  In this newscast:A Superior Court judge heard oral arguments this morning over the legality of the city’s planned redevelopment of Juneau’s Telephone Hill,
  A former Juneau fire captain has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for assaulting his stepdaughter, and KTOO examines how the city dealt with having a public safety employee charged for child assault,
  Around 250 U.S. Coast Guard crew members stati
  
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• Former Juneau fire captain convicted of assault resigned months after charges were filed

  26-08-2026 02:21 via ktoo.org
  A Capital City Fire/Rescue truck. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A former Juneau fire captain has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for physically assaulting his stepdaughter. 
  The State of Alaska filed criminal charges against Brent Clancy in June of last year. But Clancy was still employed with the city’s fire department for two more months — until the end of August. The city’s Human Resources and Risk Management Director Dallas Hargrave said Clancy was not ac
  
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• Judge hears arguments on legality of Juneau’s Telephone Hill demolition plan

  26-08-2026 02:20 via ktoo.org
  Attorney Fred Triem gives an oral argument for a civil lawsuit regarding the Telephone Hill neighborhood in downtown Juneau on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A Superior Court judge heard oral arguments on Tuesday morning for a civil lawsuit about the legality of the city’s planned redevelopment of the downtown Telephone Hill neighborhood.
  The lawsuit pits former tenants of the neighborhood against the City and Borough of Juneau. The former tenants filed the joint ci
  
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• Military identifies 3 victims of deadly Southwest Alaska plane crash

  26-08-2026 00:19 via ktoo.org
  (From left) Leah Borsich, Sabrina Hansen and Hayden Scalis. (Photos provided by Maggie Endres, Casey Cash and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.)
  The U.S. military has identified some of the victims of the plane crash that killed eight people in Southwest Alaska last week.
  A chartered Cessna 441 Conquest crashed on Thursday at a military radar site on Cape Newenham, about 450 miles west of Anchorage. Conditions in the area were foggy with low visibility that morning, according to the National We
  
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• Coast Guard holds “Buoy Tender Olympics” in Juneau

  26-08-2026 00:18 via ktoo.org
  Coast Guard crews compete in a Buoy Tender Olympics game called the “heat and beat” on Aug. 19, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
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  Around 250 U.S. Coast Guard crew members stationed across Alaska and the Pacific Northwest spent last week in Juneau to train and compete in games called the Buoy Tender Olympics on Wednesday. 
  On the cutter Fir, anchored at the Coast Guard dock downtown, t
  
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