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• First responders begin testimony in homicide trial

  06-10-2017 22:50 via ktoo.org
  Christopher Strawn listens to a 911 call playback during his trial Oct. 5, 2017, in Juneau Superior Court. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Friday’s proceedings in the Christopher Strawn trial were limited to only a few hours because of court staff scheduling issues.
  Capital City Fire/Rescue paramedic Paul Kelly testified about responding to trailer C-16 in the Kodzoff Acres Trailer Park in October 2015.
  Kelly was called as a first responder to help someone suffering from a possible gunshot wou
  
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• Enstar crews repairing gas pipeline leak near Whittier

  12-08-2026 03:21 via ktoo.org
  The Jamie D docks in Whittier. (Graelyn Brashear/Alaska Public Media)
  Enstar Natural Gas is working to repair a break in a gas pipeline feeding into communities near Whittier.
  A boater on the Twentymile River smelled gas and reported the leak Sunday, Enstar said.
  A crew investigated the pipeline on Monday, utility spokeswoman Harley Hedlund said.
  “They confirmed that the break is in a submerged portion of the pipeline near the Twentymile River,” Hedlund said.
  As of Tuesday, there ha
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026

  12-08-2026 03:20 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/20260811-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:The National Weather Service issued a glacial outburst flood warning alerting the public that the flood has begun on Tuesday.
  Sport fisherman in Southeast can catch more king salmon in the region beginning this month.
  Officials from Fairbanks and the Arctic Winter Games inked an agreement Monday naming the Interior Alaska city as the host for 2028.
  Flushable wipes are wreaking havoc on Anchorage’s w
  
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• Suicide Basin is full, glacial outburst flood to start any day

  11-08-2026 20:46 via ktoo.org
  A remote camera photo of the Suicide Basin overflow channel on Mendenhall Glacier on Aug. 11, 2026. (Photo courtesy of USGS).
  The countdown has begun for Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood. Suicide Basin reached full capacity and began spilling over the top of the glacier Tuesday morning. 
  That means flooding could begin any day. 
  The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement at 8:35 a.m. indicating that it could take between one and six days for the basin t
  
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• Updates for Juneau’s 2026 glacial outburst flood

  11-08-2026 19:54 via ktoo.org
  Updated 10 a.m. Tuesday:
  Suicide Basin is currently full and expected to release within 1-6 days. Residents in the inundation area should finalize last-minute preparations, confirm evacuation plans and prepare a go-bag.
  The City and Borough of Juneau issued an emergency text alert at 8:39 a.m. this morning notifying Juneau residents that the basin is full.In the city’s “ready, set, go” structure, the current risk is at “set.” See more information from CBJ here.&nbs
  
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• LIVE UPDATES: Juneau’s 2026 glacial outburst flood

  11-08-2026 19:54 via ktoo.org
  Update 5 p.m. Tuesday:
  The National Weather Service issued a glacial outburst flood warning, alerting the public that the flood has begun, at 4:41 p.m. on Aug. 11. That’s just eight hours after the alert went out that Suicide Basin was full. 
  The Weather Service forecasts the flood will crest between 16.1 and 16.6 feet sometime between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. Thursday. 
  Aaron Jacobs is the senior service hydrologist at the Weather Service. At a press conference organized by the multi-
  
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• Newscast – Monday, Aug. 10, 2026

  11-08-2026 19:53 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026010-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:Forecasters expect the glacial lake responsible for producing Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood to be full this week.
  The Alaska Beacon reports that a small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour last week to help a 21-foot skiff that ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau.
  A Juneau nonprofit is among the first announced to be awarded grant funding through the
  
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• Juneau School Board to consider childcare at Sayéik: Gastineau Community School

  11-08-2026 02:27 via ktoo.org
  Sayéik: Gastineau Community School as pictured in Douglas on May 6, 2026 (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  After-school childcare is on the agenda for Tuesday night’s school board meeting. The Juneau Board of Education will take a first look at a lease with a local childcare provider to run a program at Sayéik: Gastineau Community School.
  This comes after the Juneau Assembly awarded $270,000 to Southeast Childhood Collective to stabilize childcare access for school-age children.
  
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• Juneau’s Cancer Connection awarded grant to establish network of care across Southeast

  11-08-2026 00:47 via ktoo.org
  The Southeast Cancer Center, which houses Cancer Connection, in Juneau on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A Juneau nonprofit is among the first announced to be awarded grant funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program. Alaska health officials approved spending $4.5 million worth of a $272 million federal allocation toward more than a dozen Alaska health care projects last week. 
  Cancer Connection was selected for a $110,000 grant. For the past 30 years, Cancer Conne
  
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• Weather Service predicts Juneau’s Suicide Basin will be full Tuesday or Wednesday

  10-08-2026 23:31 via ktoo.org
  Water recedes from View Drive after the record-breaking flood peaks on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Forecasters expect the glacial lake responsible for producing Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood to be full this week. 
  The National Weather Service predicts that Suicide Basin will fill to the top on Tuesday, Aug. 11 or Wednesday, Aug. 12. That’s a bit later than the initial estimate since cool, dry weather fills the basin more slowly than warm and rainy we
  
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• Sen. Murkowski pushes for release of $41.3M in delayed federal grants for Alaska Native education

  10-08-2026 20:06 via ktoo.org
  A road sign marks the road towards the Lower Kuskokwim School District offices and the Bethel High School on October 9, 2023. The district is a recipient of Alaska Native Education Program grant funding. (Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)
  The U.S. Department of Education is expected to award $41.3 million in grant funding through the Alaska Native Education Program to 26 Alaska grantees after some delay, according to an announcement from Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
  The grant funding
  
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• Cruise ship helps stranded skiff and crew in Southeast Alaska as Zuckerberg yacht stands by

  10-08-2026 20:03 via ktoo.org
  The UnCruise ship Wilderness Legacy is seen in an undated file photo provided by UnCruise. (Handout photo via Alaska Beacon)
  Editor’s note: This article, initially published Friday, was updated Sunday morning with a statement from Zuckerberg.
  A small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour on Monday night to help a 21-foot skiff that ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau.
  Michael Love, a software developer from New York City, was a passenger aboard
  
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• Bill introduced by Alaska’s Murkowski aims to promote use of eDNA analysis in fishery management

  10-08-2026 19:44 via ktoo.org
  Migrating salmon are seen in late 2011 in the waters of Western Alaska’s Togiak National Wildlife Refuge. A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would enable the use of environmental DNA to help inform federal fishery science and management. Flakes from fish scales and other materials deposit eDNA into marine and freshwater systems. (via Alaska Beacon)
  Federal fishery managers would start analyzing the DNA collected in ocean waters to help inform their decisions, under a bipartis
  
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• Newscast – Friday, August 7, 2026

  08-08-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/20260807-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:The Juneau School District is slated to start the school year in two weeks with 10 open elementary teaching positions,
  An answer to Juneau’s plea for a solution to glacial outburst flooding is on the horizon. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said that it will post a request for proposals after the next flood, which is expected to hit any day,
  Alaska will now regulate its own hazardous waste,
  If you
  
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• Division of Elections keeps 1,900 Alaskans on ‘inactive noncitizen’ list, awaiting verification

  08-08-2026 01:53 via ktoo.org
  Voters mark their ballots at Ketchikan’s Precinct No. 2 at The Plaza on Nov. 6, 2018. (Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  The Alaska Division of Elections is sending follow-up letters to most of the 3,000 voters it struck from the active voter list this summer.
  The division’s director has acknowledged that the delisting was based, at least partly, on old drivers license data that suggested the people were not citizens, even though the Division of Elections records showed they were citizens. Often,
  
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• From family kitchens to Juneau restaurants, every adobo tells a story

  08-08-2026 01:36 via ktoo.org
  A plate of adobo from Carrillo Caldo Food Truck on Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. (Elan Chappell/KTOO)
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/005Adobo.mp3
  In the middle of a downtown Juneau lunch rush in July, the smell of garlic, vinegar and soy sauce drifted through the cruise ship docks. At Bernadette’s Filipino food stand, tourists and locals waited in line for Filipino favorites like lumpia, pancit and adobo.
  For some people, it was an introduction to Filipino food. For others, like
  
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• Former Juneau fire captain faces prison time for domestic violence

  08-08-2026 01:36 via ktoo.org
  Snow falls on Capital City Fire/Rescue’s downtown station in Juneau on Dec. 17, 2020. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  A Juneau fire captain was charged with domestic violence assault in an incident involving his 12-year-old stepdaughter last summer. 
  Brent Clancy was convicted of that crime and will be sentenced on Thursday, August 13. He faces up to five years in prison. At the trial earlier in April witnesses testified about the abuse. 
  This story contains descriptions of violence
  
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• Trump administration threatens deep cuts to program that funds air travel in rural Alaska

  08-08-2026 01:05 via ktoo.org
  Aleutian Airways receives over $8 million to serve the St. Paul community through the Essential Air Service program. (Aleutian Airways)
  The Trump Administration is again threatening cuts to the federal Essential Air Service program, which provides funding for flights to and from rural Alaska.
  The proposal – included in the White House’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2027 – calls spending for Essential Air Service “out of control” and suggests changing eligibility
  
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• Murkowski says she’ll vote no on Blanche, but his confirmation remains on track

  08-08-2026 01:01 via ktoo.org
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski delivers her annual legislative address at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on March 31, 2026. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced that she’ll vote no on Todd Blanche for U.S. attorney general.
  “The country needs an Attorney General who will check the worst impulses of this administration,” she wrote in a social media post early Friday. “I hope Mr. Blanche is able to achieve that, if confirmed, but
  
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• Army Corps teases glacial outburst flood solution announcement as next flood looms

  07-08-2026 19:05 via ktoo.org
  
  Suicide Basin, pictured in 2023, is the birthplace of Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood. It sits about two miles above the terminus of Mendenhall Glacier. (Anna Canny/KTOO)
  A pathway to a permanent solution for Juneau’s annual glacial outburst is coming soon. That’s according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Assistant Secretary Adam Telle, who said at a virtual press conference Thursday that the Corps will post a request for proposals this month for a solution to drain Suic
  
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• Alaska will now regulate its own hazardous waste

  07-08-2026 03:11 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau’s hazardous waste facility in 2017 (Elizabeth Jenkins/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  Alaska will now regulate its own hazardous waste. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency handed over the responsibility to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation on Thursday.
  This makes Alaska the 49th state with an authorized hazardous waste program. Only Iowa lacks one. State regulators will oversee the generation, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal of qualifying waste pr
  
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• Juneau School District faces hiring challenges ahead of start to school year

  07-08-2026 03:09 via ktoo.org
  
  Auke Bay Elementary School on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. (Photo by Clarise Larson / KTOO)
  The Juneau School District is slated to start the school year in 2 weeks with 10 open elementary teacher positions. Nine positions are full time and one position is part time. School officials say this number represents a spike in teaching vacancies compared to previous years. 
  The district’s largest elementary school, Auke Bay Elementary, might start the year down four teachers, or a sixth of its
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026

  07-08-2026 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/20260806-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:A Juneau construction company could have to pay $350,000  for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act by dredging and dumping in several wetlands without permits.
  There are over a thousand manmade stream crossings in the Tongass National Forest that aren’t up to standard. But on Prince of Wales Island, in southern Southeast, an environmental nonprofit is replacing a handful of these structures
  
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• Why KTOO did not livestream Thursday morning’s federal press conference on glacial outburst flooding

  07-08-2026 02:58 via ktoo.org
  
  The KTOO office on Aug. 6, 2026. (Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  A note from the editors:
  There was significant confusion surrounding a press conference Thursday morning with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan regarding a long-term solution to Juneau’s glacial lake outburst floods. KTOO did not livestream it due to a last minute request from the senator’s office to embargo the information. 
  We understand this confused many people in the community so we wanted to expla
  
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• Alaska superintendents drill down on education policy with some gubernatorial candidates

  07-08-2026 02:06 via ktoo.org
  
  Six candidates for Alaska governor and lieutenant governor participated in a debate on education hosted by the Alaska Superintendents Association in Juneau on July 30, 2026. (Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)
  Six candidates for Alaska governor from across the political spectrum appeared side-by-side in a room full of superintendents and school officials in Juneau and promised that boosting education funding would be a priority of their administration, if elected.
  Six candidates participated in the d
  
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• Eyes on Alaska’s Murkowski as confirmation vote nears for Trump attorney general pick

  07-08-2026 01:59 via ktoo.org
  
  Fox News reporter Chad Pergram, with striped tie, was one of the reporters pressing Sen. Lisa Murkowski for answers on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. She wasn’t providing them. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  WASHINGTON — A lot of focus is on U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski as Republican leaders try to round up the votes to confirm Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general.
  Murkowski’s vote could be pivotal, but she rebuffed all questions about how she&rsquo
  
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• WATCH: Army Corps of Engineers, Sen. Sullivan discuss glacial outburst flood long-term solution

  06-08-2026 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Adam Telle and U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan are set to hold a press conference at 9:30 a.m.They’ll be discussing commitments to a long-term solution to Juneau’s recurring glacial lake outburst floods in the Mendenhall Valley. 
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, August 5, 2026

  06-08-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/20260805-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:The University of Alaska is eliminating an out-of-state tuition rate,
  The building and land that house the Juneau Makerspace on Douglas Island are for sale, but the community workspace isn’t closing its doors,
  A Gustavus family’s sailboat suddenly sank in Glacier Bay National Park last week. The family swam to shore, and later learned a humpback whale could be the culprit,
  The U.S. Forest Serv
  
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• University of Alaska to eliminate out-of-state tuition for 2027 academic year

  06-08-2026 02:52 via ktoo.org
  
  University of Alaska Southeast students celebrate their graduation on Sunday, May 7, 2023. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The University of Alaska is eliminating an out-of-state tuition rate. In a special meeting Tuesday, the Board of Regents unanimously approved making in-state tuition available for all students, at all degree levels. The new tuition rates will go into effect in the 2027 fall semester.
  Out-of-state tuition is currently at least double in-state tuition, depending on the campus a
  
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• A Juneau construction company could pay $350K for Clean Water Act violations

  06-08-2026 02:52 via ktoo.org
  
  An aerial view of S&S ponds near Lemon Creek, where Duran Construction Company is accused of excavating and stockpiling sand and gravel without required permits. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A Juneau construction company could have to pay $350,000 for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act by dredging and dumping in several wetlands without permits. The U.S. Department of Justice, State of Alaska and Duran Construction Company, LLC, agreed to a proposed settlement on Thursday. 
  The f
  
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