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• Alaska House District 3 candidates skeptical about proposed Cascade Point terminal

  26-10-2026 23:00 via KTOO
  Glacier Highway leading toward Cascade Point on Saturday, July 26, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Both candidates vying for the open House District 3 seat in the Alaska Legislature said they aren’t convinced the state’s controversial Cascade Point ferry terminal project will benefit Southeast communities. 
  In the November election, District 3’s Democratic incumbent Rep. Andi Story faces Republican challenger Annette Kreitzer. The seat represents Haines, Skagway, Gustavus and parts o
  
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• Alaska House District 3 candidates skeptical about proposed Cascade Point ferry terminal

  26-10-2026 23:00 via KTOO
  Glacier Highway leading toward Cascade Point on Saturday, July 26, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Both candidates vying for the open House District 3 seat in the Alaska Legislature said they aren’t convinced the state’s controversial Cascade Point ferry terminal project will benefit Southeast communities. 
  In the November election, District 3’s Democratic incumbent Rep. Andi Story faces Republican challenger Annette Kreitzer. The seat represents Haines, Skagway, Gustavus and parts o
  
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• No indication of targeted attack behind Peltola car crash in Anchorage

  26-10-2026 22:15 via KTOO
  Former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, speaks at a campaign gathering in Anchorage on Oct. 21, 2026. Peltola is running for U.S. Senate. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  An official with the Anchorage Police Department said Monday that there is no evidence that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola was deliberately targeted in a weekend car accident that injured her and members of her family.
  “There is nothing new to share and at this time, there are no indications that this was
  
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• Peltola, Democratic Party move to intervene in DOJ election lawsuit

  26-10-2026 18:23 via KTOO
  Former Alaska Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola at a debate with Sen. Dan Sullivan at Alaska Public Media studios on Oct. 15. (Photo by Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  The U.S. Senate campaign of Democrat Mary Peltola is among those asking a federal judge to dismiss a Department of Justice lawsuit that seeks to block election results if she wins.
  The lawsuit, which President Donald Trump said he personally ordered, seeks to prevent the state from certifying election results if the incumbe
  
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• Angoon student’s award-winning film spotlights healing after 1882 Navy bombardment

  26-10-2026 14:00 via KTOO
  Angel Jack poses for a photo in 2024. (Photo Courtesy of Seth Bader)
  On this day 144 years ago, the U.S. Navy bombed Angoon, a Lingít village on Admiralty Island near Juneau. It killed at least six children. Clan houses, food caches and canoes were also destroyed. 
  Just two years ago, Navy representatives finally formally apologized to the village for the devastating and deadly shelling. Angel Jack, 18, was at the apology. She and several high school students in Angoon created short films to
  
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• A pair of Alaska rocket launches will help see into the afterlives of stars

  26-10-2026 14:00 via KTOO
  NASA’s DUST III rocket launches from the Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks on Oct. 19, 2026. (Photo by Bryan Whitten/University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute)
  Two research rockets took off just north of Fairbanks at the Poker Flat Research Range last week to study space dust and dying stars.
  The first rocket to go up was part of the INFUSE-2 mission, staffed by a team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder. The project aims to study how dying stars distr
  
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