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• Early voting opens in Alaska’s midterm elections

  19-10-2026 21:17 via KTOO
  Voters cast their ballots in the 2022 primary election in Anchorage on Aug. 16, 2022. (Photo by Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Early voting for the midterm elections is officially underway across most of Alaska. Polls opened Monday morning for the 15-day period leading up to Election Day on Nov. 3.
  Alaskans are voting this year on races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor and the state Legislature, plus two ballot measures.
  In Anchorage, voters can cast early ballots at the Midtown Mall, A
  
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• Alaska Airlines announces direct flight to Tokyo from Anchorage

  27-10-2026 23:08 via KTOO
  Alaska Airlines Regional Vice President Marilyn Romano announces the airline will launch a new direct flight from Anchorage to Tokyo next summer. She made the announcement at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Oct. 27, 2026. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  Alaska Airlines will launch direct flights from Anchorage to Tokyo next summer, along with nonstop routes to three U.S. cities.
  Airline officials made the announcement Tuesday morning at the Ted Stevens Anchorage Internation
  
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• Juneau Assembly says goodbye to two longtime members

  27-10-2026 20:37 via KTOO
  Former Juneau Assembly members Alicia Hughes-Skandijs and Christine Woll smile with their nameplates at their last meeting on Monday, Oct. 27, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Juneau Assembly bid farewell to two longtime members at its meeting Monday night. 
  Assembly members Christine Woll and Alicia Hughes-Skandijs stepped down from their seats to welcome new members Joyce Niven and Mila Cosgrove, who were elected in the recent municipal election. Assembly member Paul Kelly was also re
  
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• State of Alaska says DOJ lawsuit over Senate race ‘has no legal basis’

  27-10-2026 19:51 via KTOO
  Alaska Elections Director Carol Beecher at a legislative hearing on July 22, 2026. (Mikayla Finnerty/Alaska Public Media)
  The State of Alaska is urging a federal judge to “immediately” dismiss a Trump administration lawsuit that could block certification of the U.S. Senate election if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan narrowly loses.
  “Delaying certification of Alaska’s election results—but only if a particular candidate does not win—would interfere with state election administration and t
  
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• Dan J. Sullivan switches from Republican to ‘undeclared’ ahead of general election

  27-10-2026 18:30 via KTOO
  Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg has this image of himself on his campaign website. (SullivanforSenate.com)
  Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan is heading into the general election as an undeclared voter, a type of independent.
  According to records kept by the Alaska Division of Elections, Sullivan switched from a Republican to an undeclared party affiliation when he requested an absentee ballot for the August primary election.
  Sullivan’s status as a Republican was one of the reasons the
  
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• Juneau Assembly highlights: new members, electric motorcycles and farm animals

  27-10-2026 05:40 via KTOO
  Incumbent Juneau Assembly member Paul Kelly and new members Mila Cosgrove and Joyce Niven raise their hands as they are sworn in to the Juneau Assembly on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Juneau Assembly met for a regular meeting on Monday night to swear in new members, say goodbye to departing ones, and vote on several ordinances, including one that would regulate electric motorcycles on city parks and trails. 
  Here are some highlights from the meeting:
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• Newscast – Monday, Oct. 26, 2026

  27-10-2026 02:04 via KTOO
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  In this newscast:The Juneau School Board will consider a complaint over curriculum being used at Kax̲dig̲oowu Héen Elementary at its Tuesday meeting.
  Both candidates vying for the open House District 3 seat in the Alaska Legislature say they aren’t convinced the state’s controversial Cascade Point ferry terminal project will benefit Southeast communitites.
  The monthlong moose hunt near Petersburg, Wrangell and Kake
  
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• 3 Alaska governor candidates pitch visions for tribal relations, fisheries at AFN convention

  27-10-2026 01:49 via KTOO
  Alaska gubernatorial candidates Treg Taylor, Dave Bronson and Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins participated in a candidate forum moderated by Antonia Gonzales at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention on Oct. 23, 2026. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Three of Alaska’s candidates for governor pitched their visions for addressing Indigenous issues during the Alaska Federation of Natives convention Friday.
  Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and Republicans Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor participated i
  
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• Juneau School Board to hear from parents over curriculum concerns

  27-10-2026 01:32 via KTOO
  Kax̱dig̱oowu Héen Elementary on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Juneau School Board will consider a complaint over curriculum being used at Kax̱dig̱oowu Héen Elementary at its Tuesday meeting.
  Last year, a student’s parents reported concerns to the district over the elementary school’s use of classroom management materials from a program called Focus Five/Acting Right. The district issued its finding earlier this month that no changes needed to happen.
  The pa
  
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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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• Newscast – Friday, Oct. 23, 2026

  24-10-2026 03:04 via KTOO
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  In this newscast:The Juneau Assembly plans to swear in two new members plus a returning one at its regular meeting on Monday night.
  The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block certification of the state’s U.S. Senate election if the president’s preferred candidate loses the race.
  A local filmmaker is debuting his passion project “Girl, Yeti and a Spaceship” in Juneau next month.
  
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• 30th anniversary of Native & Rural Student Center | Princess Sophia memorial | SAIL’s Traumatic & Acquired Injury Program | Musician Ashley Young plays the Alaskan

  24-10-2026 02:51 via KTOO
  Juneau Afternoon recorded live on Friday, October 23, 2026
  The Native & Rural Student Center at the University of Alaska Southeast will celebrate its 30th anniversary on Friday, Oct. 30, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. on the second floor of the Mourant building (Lakeside Grill). Members of the Juneau community are invited to celebrate with UAS students, staff, faculty, and alumni.Princess Sofia Memorial is Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, at Noon at the Gravesite of Walter Harper and Frances Wells in the Ev
  
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• Juneau filmmaker premiers sci-fi comedy film after more than a decade of work

  24-10-2026 01:47 via KTOO
  A robot, Yeti, and lead actor Izabelle Powers in Girl, Yeti and a Spaceship. (Photo courtesy of Anton Dorion.)
  A local filmmaker is debuting his passion project Girl, Yeti and a Spaceship in Juneau next month. Juneau locals Amelia Jenkins, Bryan Crowder, and Roblin Gray Davis star in the film. 
  Anton Doiron, the mind behind the movie, spent the last 13 years of his life putting it together, along with some help from some friends. His first film, Space Trucker Bruce, came out in 2014.
  Doiron sat
  
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• Juneau filmmaker premieres sci-fi comedy film after more than a decade of work

  24-10-2026 01:47 via KTOO
  
  
  A robot, Yeti, and lead actor Izabelle Powers in Girl, Yeti and a Spaceship. (Photo courtesy of Anton Dorion.)
  A local filmmaker is debuting his passion project Girl, Yeti and a SpaceshipGirl, Yeti and a Spaceship in Juneau next month. Juneau locals Amelia Jenkins, Bryan Crowder, and Roblin Gray Davis star in the film. 
  Anton Doiron, the mind behind the movie, spent the last 13 years of his life putting it together, along with some help from some friends. His first film, Space Trucker Bruce, ca
  
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• Alaskans, legal experts condemn federal lawsuit as attempt to invalidate the vote in U.S. Senate race

  23-10-2026 23:58 via KTOO
  President Donald Trump at a rally to support Sen. Dan Sullivan in Wasilla Oct. 13, 2026. (James Daggett | Alaska Public Media)
  A range of legal experts and Alaskans decried a Trump administration lawsuit filed Thursday seeking to block certification of the state’s U.S. Senate election if the president’s preferred candidate, Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, loses the race.
  The lawsuit seeks a court order preventing state election officials from declaring Sullivan’s Democratic oppone
  
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• Juneau Assembly to swear in new members at meeting on Monday

  23-10-2026 22:31 via KTOO
  Incumbent Juneau Assembly member Ella Adkison and Greg Smith, and new member Nano Brooks and give their oath to the city attorney at a meeting on Monday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Juneau Assembly plans to swear in two new members plus a returning one, and say goodbye to two longtime members at its regular meeting on Monday night. 
  Joyce Niven, Mila Cosgrove and Paul Kelly secured the three open seats on the Assembly in the recent local election certified on Tuesday.
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• ‘Rising in Our Voices’: Alaska Federation of Natives convention kicks off in Anchorage

  23-10-2026 15:01 via KTOO
  Dr. Rosita Worl was the keynote speaker at the 2026 Alaska Federation of Natives convention, which started in Anchorage on Oct. 22, 2026. (Photo by Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  The Alaska Federation of Natives kicked off its annual convention in Anchorage Thursday, marking the organization’s 60th anniversary.
  Delegates filled the Dena’ina Convention Center as the state’s largest gathering of Alaska Native people met to celebrate the theme — Rooted in Land and Tradition: Rising in O
  
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• Murkowski on war-driven energy prices: ‘It is wrong.’

  23-10-2026 15:00 via KTOO
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks to the Alaska Federation of Natives in Anchorage on Oct. 22, 2026. (Photo by Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski told the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention that high energy prices are this year’s crisis, just as the Halong storm disaster was last year’s, and Murkowski was blunt about the cause.
  “It is wrong. It is wrong that fuel prices are so high,” she said. “For six months now, I have voted to responsibly end the war in Iran, which
  
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• Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly enacts weather modification permit process

  23-10-2026 15:00 via KTOO
  One of Rainmaker Technology Corporation’s Elijah drones flies near Homer, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Rainmaker Technology Corporation)
  The Kenai Peninsula Borough now has a way to permit cloud-seeding and other types of geoengineering. That’s after borough assembly members Tuesday enacted a section of code that requires detailed applications from anyone seeking to modify weather on borough land.
  The new rules require would-be weather modifiers to obtain a commercial lease or commercial land
  
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• Assembly enacts weather modification permit process

  23-10-2026 15:00 via KTOO
  One of Rainmaker Technology Corporation’s Elijah drones flies near Homer, Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Rainmaker Technology Corporation)
  The Kenai Peninsula Borough now has a way to permit cloud-seeding and other types of geoengineering. That’s after borough assembly members Tuesday enacted a section of code that requires detailed applications from anyone seeking to modify weather on borough land.
  The new rules require would-be weather modifiers to obtain a commercial lease or commercial land
  
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• On-hand marine biology and environmental science at UAS | Early voting: how and why it may be right for you | Juneau Care Partners Summit and Resource Fair

  23-10-2026 06:44 via KTOO
  Juneau Afternoon recorded live on Thursday, October 22, 2026
  Early voting for the general election on November 3 has begun. How and why it might be right for you, with representatives Anjuli Grantham from ReSisters and Trish Custer from The League of Women Voters.
  Linda Kruger and John Brett from the Juneau Commission on Aging share updates and events, including the Juneau Care Partners Summit and Resource Fair, sponsored by AARP Alaska, November 4 at Centennial Hall.Dr. Megan Behnke, Dr. Ja
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026

  23-10-2026 02:55 via KTOO
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  In this newscast:The U.S. Geological Survey announced a new estimate for natural gas potential across Alaska’s North Slope
  The Alaska Federation of Natives kicked off its annual convention in Anchorage and marked its 60th anniversary
  Alaska Native education specialists stressed self-determination at the Elders and Youth conference in Anchorage
  Juneau’s top-paid city officials are police officers due to overtime pay
  
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• Why are Juneau’s highest-paid city employees mostly cops?

  23-10-2026 02:21 via KTOO
  A Juneau police officer stands on duty in March 2023. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
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  Juneau’s highest-paid city employee in 2025 was a cop. So was the second highest. And the third. In fact, 6 out of the 10 top-paid city employees last year were officers at the Juneau Police Department. 
  That’s according to a records request by KTOO to the City and Borough of Juneau. Last year, Juneau’s top earner was Police Sgt. Mich
  
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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. 
  The
  
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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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