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• Fat Bear Week Day 2: Subadults, Scars, Beefcakes, and Bad Boys

  24-09-2026 19:56 via ktoo.org
  A composite of images of each bear competing today as part of Fat Bear Week 2026 (Images courtesy of the National Park Service)
  In case you missed it: voter turnout for Day 1 of Fat Bear Week was so huge, it broke their website. Organizers made changes to the voting collection process and re-opened Day 2 with a repeat of Day 1’s polls. Voters had mixed success, due to maxing out the new software limits as well. What we observed is that there ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t
  
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• Gov. Dunleavy lifts freeze on state government hiring, new regulations and worker travel

  24-09-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy discusses proposed education legislation at a news conference on Jan. 31, 2025. (Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Monday lifted a statewide executive branch hiring freeze, removing restrictions on managers who had been required since May 2025 to obtain special permission before hiring new state employees.
  The governor’s decision was revealed without fanfare in a new administrative order that took effect Monday.
  This week’s order also repealed a f
  
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• Proposed EPA rule would exempt most offshore seafood processing vessels from reporting their pollution discharge

  24-09-2026 14:59 via ktoo.org
  The Starbound, a 300-foot catcher-processor in port in Unalaska in February 2022. (Theo Greenly/KUCB)
  The Environmental Protection Agency published a proposed rule on Sept. 4 that would de-regulate pollution released by certain offshore seafood processing vessels.
  Under the proposal, a vessel that’s more than three miles from shore in federal waters and not attached to the seabed would be exempt from the Clean Water Act’s pollution discharge permitting requirements.
  That means that
  
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• UAF project aims to reduce US dependence on imported critical minerals

  24-09-2026 03:18 via ktoo.org
  UAF geochronologist Florian Hoffman works on the program’s argon mass spectrometer. (JR Ancheta/University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute)
  Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks say work is already underway on a project to reduce the nation’s dependence on imported critical minerals. That’s after the U.S. National Science Foundation awarded the university $15 million this summer to lead a regional collaboration the foundation calls a critical mineral acce
  
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• Candidates for President and First VP of Tlingit and Haida speak ahead of vote

  24-09-2026 03:07 via ktoo.org
  Jáx Kóoste Tasha Hotch, Shkaadul.aat Lisa Gassman, Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson, Melissa Kookesh, Ku.seen Jacqueline Pata, and Clinton Cook spoke during Tlingit and Haida’s annual tribal assembly about their candidacy for president and first vice president of the regional tribe government on Sept. 23, 2026. (Photos by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  Five candidates vying to lead Southeast Alaska’s largest tribal government spoke about their experience and platforms today d
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026

  24-09-2026 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/20260923-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:Tlingit and Haida’s president championed the tribe’s first casino opening in Juneau at his annual state of the tribe address
  The EPA wants Teck Alaska Inc. to pay over $21K for a spill last year at its Red Dog Mine
  Jobs and wages are up in Sitka this year, according to a new economic report
  A federal court of appeals ruled construction can continue on the contentious King Cove Road through Ize
  
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• Juneau Tlingit & Haida Community Council Orange Shirt Day | Dolly Fest & Imagination Library | Garden Talk | Election reminders with deputy municipal clerk Andi Hirsh

  24-09-2026 02:46 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Juneau Afternoon recorded live on Wednesday, September 23, 2026
  Juneau Tlingit & Haida Community Council Orange Shirt Day event on Sunday, September 27, 2026Dolly Fest at the Goldtown Nick & Southeast Childhood Collective Dolly Parton Imagination LibraryGarden Talk with UAF Cooperative Extenstion Agent Darren SnyderElection reminders with deputy municipal clerk Andi Hirsh
  Audio PodcastVideo LivestreamBostin Christopher hosts the conversation. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3:00 p.m. on KTOO a
  
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• Tlingit and Haida president champions new casino during annual State of the Tribe address

  24-09-2026 00:23 via ktoo.org
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s President Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson speaks during the tribe’s 91st annual tribal assembly in Juneau on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s president championed the tribe’s opening of its first casino in Juneau during his annual State of the Tribe address Wednesday morning. 
  President Chalyee &Ea
  
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