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• New Juneau opera Black Rock, USA centers labor rights and queerness in a fictional 1890s mining town

  22-10-2026 23:01 via KTOO
  From left, Chazz Gist (bass), Spencer Edgers (piano), Caleb Wylie (guitar), and Carter Bancroft (fiddle) rehearse with vocalists Marian Call and Jessica Skiba for “Black Rock, USA” on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center. (Photo courtesy Tripp J Crouse)
  Juneau poet Tripp J. Crouse and composer Spencer Edgers have created an original opera called Black Rock, USA. A workshop performance of it will be on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. 
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• King salmon runs are crashing. In Kodiak, a pioneering conservation project aims to save one

  22-10-2026 21:38 via KTOO
  KRAA technician Morgan Belflower clips the adipose fins off of hatchery king salmon on Sept. 15. This process helps them distinguish the hatchery fish from wild fish when they return to freshwater. (Photo by Katherine Irving/KMXT)
  The mountains had turned orange and yellow above Kodiak’s Pillar Creek hatchery as James ‘Hawk’ Turman waited at the hatchery gate on a September day.
  “It smells a little bit right now, because you got a bunch of pink salmon out there dying in the river,” he
  
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• Alaskans to vote on language change in voter eligibility law in midterm election

  22-10-2026 21:33 via KTOO
  Volunteers operate an in-person polling place for the special U.S. House primary election on Friday, May 27, 2022 in the atrium of the State Office Building at Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  This midterm election, Alaskan voters will decide whether to change state voter qualification language related to the citizenship requirement to vote.
  Only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in national and state elections. Ballot Measure 3, which appears on the ballot as 25USCV, woul
  
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• New USGS estimate says undiscovered North Slope gas resources equal nearly 3 years of U.S. consumption

  22-10-2026 21:20 via KTOO
  The Trans-Alaska Pipeline along the Dalton Highway near Atigun Pass in September, 2021. (Photo by Alena Naiden/KNBA)
  The U.S. Geological Survey has announced a new estimate for the natural gas potential across Alaska’s North Slope. According to the agency, the region might be storing about 96 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas.
  “It’s roughly three times the size of the known gas accumulations on the Alaska North Slope,” Alicia Lindauer, a coordinator for the agen
  
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• New opera ‘Black Rock, USA’ premieres with workshop | Glory Hall Empty Bowls 2026 | Juneau Adult Hockey Association preps for winter sign-ups

  22-10-2026 03:05 via KTOO
  Juneau Afternoon recorded live on Wednesday, October 21, 2026
  The Glory Hall benefit, Empty Bowls 2026, is set for Sunday, November 1 at 5:00 p.m. at Centennial Hall. Emcee Jorden Nigro and Executive Director Kaia Quinto share what’s in store, including the artists involved in making the popular bowls.A workshop presentation of a new opera called “Black Rock, USA” is set for Sunday, October 25 at 2:00 p.m. at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. With a libretto by tripp j crouse and music
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026

  22-10-2026 03:04 via KTOO
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/20261021-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast: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 last night.
  Here’s the clue: He is an Alaska resident, a longtime Jeopardy! fan, and won the game on October 13 after decades of training. If you said: Who is Ron
  
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• Alaska voters’ privacy could be at risk from state’s handling of voter rolls, judge says

  22-10-2026 02:21 via KTOO
  A banner showing President Donald Trump hangs on the Department of Justice on Feb. 20, 2026. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)
  A Superior Court judge said last week that the state Division of Elections may have violated the Alaska Constitution’s right to privacy when it handed an uncensored version of the state’s voter list to the U.S. Department of Justice last year.
  On Friday, Judge Adolf Zeman turned down the division’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed this spring by the Le
  
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• Hill campaign gains ground, but supporters worry it’s too late

  22-10-2026 02:17 via KTOO
  Bill Hill met with supporters in Anchorage on Oct. 8. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  More than 100 supporters of U.S. House challenger Bill Hill turned up at a strip mall in Anchorage in early October for a meet-and-greet/crafting event.
  The theme was make-your-own Bill Hill campaign swag. Some supporters stamped and decorated t-shirts, signs and caps. Others, like Kathryn Carovano of Anchorage, said they were just there to meet the independent candidate.
  She said she gave to Hill early, in p
  
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• Juneau’s Thatcher Brouwer named executive director of United Fishermen of Alaska

  22-10-2026 01:54 via KTOO
  Thatcher Brouwer outside the KTOO studio in Juneau on Oct. 5, 2026. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  Juneau’s Thatcher Brouwer was recently named executive director of United Fishermen of Alaska, also known as UFA. Brouwer has more than two decades under his belt as a commercial fisherman and years of experience with statewide fisheries policy.
  KTOO’s Mike Lane recently sat down with Brouwer to talk about  the challenges and rewards of working in the commercial fishing industry.
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