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• Trump administration plan could open 28 million acres of Alaska land to development

  13-11-2026 23:09 via KTOO
  Some of the land that could lose its D-1 status touches the upper Ferebee, Chilkoot and Chilkat rivers. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS)
  The Trump administration is preparing to lift a classification on 28 million acres of federal land in Alaska that has long prevented it from being developed or transferred to the state or Alaska Native corporations.
  Removing so-called D-1 Withdrawals would open new land for resource extraction and other uses, in the Chilkat Valley, Southcentral, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
  
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• FAA lifts the nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports

  13-11-2026 23:02 via KTOO
  The Juneau International Airport in April 2023. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The nationwide ground stop that paralyzed the U.S. aviation system on Friday has ended, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
  The rare stop, which lasted about four hours on Friday, ground all U.S. airports following a “communication issue,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said earlier Friday.
  Friday afternoon, the FAA said in a post on X that there has been a “temporary telecommunications outage
  
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• FAA issues nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports

  13-11-2026 23:02 via KTOO
  The Juneau International Airport in April 2023. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a “communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers,” according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
  Friday afternoon, Duffy said: “FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them.”
  This is a developing story.
  
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• Juneau Assembly to vote on city-wide e-motorcycle regulations on Monday

  13-11-2026 16:00 via KTOO
  People ride electric motorcycles down Basin Road on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  The Juneau Assembly will decide on Monday whether to approve an ordinance regulating electric motorcycles on Juneau’s streets, parks, and trails. 
  If approved, the ordinance would mean that more classes of e-bikes and electric motorcycles would be prohibited on city bike paths, shared-use pathways, sidewalks, and trails in Juneau. It would also mean that riders on public roads would need a
  
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• JKT tops 50% in Alaska governor’s race as Peltola extends Senate lead

  13-11-2026 07:14 via KTOO
  Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins at his election party on Nov. 3, 2026. (Wesley Early | Alaska Public Media)
  Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, the leading candidate for governor, just barely crested the important 50% mark in the latest election results the Alaska Division of Elections released Thursday.
  His nearest challenger, Republican business owner Bernadette Wilson, has 28.7%.
  The results Thursday added 5,723 early, absentee and questioned ballots to the total, primarily from Southeast. The Associa
  
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• JKT declares victory after topping 50% in Alaska governor’s race as Peltola extends Senate lead

  13-11-2026 07:14 via KTOO
  Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins at his election party on Nov. 3, 2026. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, the leading candidate for governor, just barely crested the important 50% mark in the latest election results the Alaska Division of Elections released Thursday.
  His nearest challenger, Republican business owner Bernadette Wilson, has 28.7%.
  Kreiss-Tomkins declared victory in a news release Friday morning after CNN projected he would win. His campaign said the rema
  
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• Art songs and opera from the Philippines in ‘Singing the Archipelago’ | Evening at Egan lecture on Indigenous-Settler Coalitions in Desert Southwest

  13-11-2026 06:10 via KTOO
  Juneau Afternoon recorded on Thursday, November 12, 2026
  UAS Evening at Egan talk by Taylor Rose, entitled “Unlikely Alliances? Oral Histories of Indigenous-Settler Coalitions for Land in the Desert Southwest.” Public lecture to be held at UAS Egan Library on Friday, 11/13 at 7 p.m.“Singing the Archipelago”– Art songs and opera from the Philippines presented by Orpheus Project with Tess Altiveros, Jose Rubio, Elisabeth Ellis, and the Icefield Quartet. Friday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. & S
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026

  13-11-2026 02:59 via KTOO
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/20261112-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast: Alaska’s U.S. Senate race tightened slightly in the last batch of election results released yesterday,
  A group of state legislators tasked with charting the future of public school funding in Alaska is calling for further study of the subject,
  Officials with the University of Alaska report more than $86 million in federal grants that were frozen or delayed by the Trump administration have been restore
  
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• In Alaska’s legislative elections, a handful of races remain undecided nail-biters

  13-11-2026 02:00 via KTOO
  People wait in line to vote on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026 at Scenic Park Elementary School in East Anchorage. (Photo by Loren Holmes/Alaska Beacon)
  In the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, candidates in two different Alaska House of Representatives elections are separated by five votes, according to preliminary, partial ranked choice runoff data published by the Alaska Division of Elections on Wednesday night.
  The winners of those two races are not expected to change the balance of power in th
  
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