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• Final Juneau election results: seasonal sales tax passes, new members elected to Assembly

  21-10-2026 03:24 via KTOO
  Candidates and supports waves signs downtown on municipal Election Day on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Juneau will have a new seasonal sales tax beginning next year. And there will be some new faces on the Juneau Assembly, while the school board remains unchanged. That’s according to the final results for Juneau’s municipal election shared Tuesday night. 
  Juneau Assembly welcomes Mila Cosgrove, Joyce Niven and incumbent Paul Kelly
  District 1 candidate Mi
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026

  21-10-2026 03:00 via KTOO
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/20261020-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:Heavy rain and high winds are slated to continue slamming parts of Southeast Alaska through Tuesday night. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch as well as high wind advisories and warnings, concentrated mostly in the northern panhandle. Meteorologists expect impacts in Juneau, Sitka, Gustavus, Elfin Cove, Haines, Skagway and Yakutat.
  Alaska released more than a billion-and-a-half hatcher
  
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• Ketchikan issues disaster declaration after landslide

  21-10-2026 01:30 via KTOO
  Ketchikan Public Utility’s Fair Street Substation, pictured in 2024. (Photo by KRBD)
  Ketchikan’s city and borough mayors have issued a joint disaster declaration after a landslide north of town severely damaged an electric substation on Thursday. There were no injuries in the slide.
  The declaration calls for coordinated efforts between the city and the borough, as well as state and federal assistance, to restore Ketchikan Public Utility’s Ward Cove Electric Substation. Severe w
  
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• Alaskan wins Jeopardy! after decades of applying to be on the show

  21-10-2026 00:46 via KTOO
  A screenshot of Ron Clarke tying with another Jeopardy! contestant in the final Jeopardy! round, triggering a rare tiebreaker question. The question was “A posted sign told the artists to ‘check your egos at the door’ before the recording of this 1985 single.”
  Here’s the clue: He’s an Alaska resident, a longtime “Jeopardy!” fan, and won the game on Oct. 13 after decades of training. 
  If you said: Who is Ron Clarke? – you’d be corre
  
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