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• How do you say that? Utqiagvik

  17-10-2016 21:04 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Utqiagvik, the city formally know as Barrow, AK (File photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
  By a margin of six votes, residents of Barrow have voted to change the name of their city back to its Inupiaq name: Utqiagvik.
  City council member Qaiyaan Harcharek started the process this summer.
  There are still several steps that must be taken, including the city communicating with state officials, before the name change will come to fruition.
  Alaska Public Media’s Lori Townsend discussed the name ch
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025

  12-12-2025 03:00 via ktoo.org
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  In this newscast:Juneau’s Eaglecrest Ski Area is slated to open at a limited capacity on Saturday and Sunday after an influx of snow earlier this week,
  The Rasmuson Foundation announced their list of Individual Artist awardees, and eight Juneau projects made the list. The 50 awards go to artists across the state, who will receive $10,000 each toward a project they have planned,
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy plans to roll out a
  
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• Sullivan and Murkowski vote with Democrats to support failed health subsidy extension

  12-12-2025 02:32 via ktoo.org
  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. (Alaska Public Media)
  WASHINGTON — Both of Alaska’s U.S senators crossed the aisle Thursday to vote to advance a Democratic bill that would’ve extended health insurance subsidies for three years.
  The Alaskans and two other senators were the only Republicans to back the plan, which failed to get the 60 votes needed.
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s vote was not a surprise. She’s known for often voting with Democrats, and she
  
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• Juneau’s Eaglecrest Ski Area to open at limited capacity this weekend

  11-12-2025 21:14 via ktoo.org
  Eaglecrest Ski Area on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (Eaglecrest Ski Area)
  Juneau’s Eaglecrest Ski Area is slated to open at a limited capacity on Saturday and Sunday after an influx of snow earlier this week. 
  General Manager Craig Cimmons said the city-owned ski area will begin operating with only the Porcupine lift running from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. That lift services the mountain’s easiest trails. 
  The ski area is calling the partial opening a “winter preview weekend” s
  
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• Popular fight night in Juneau celebrates 40th beatdown

  11-12-2025 15:08 via ktoo.org
  Jesse “Jex the High” Harris kicks Landon Smallwood during an MMA fight at the 40th AK Beatdown event in Juneau on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/10AKbeatdown.wav
  Many retirees tend to spend their leisure time volunteering, reading books, or playing pickleball. But, 69-year-old Jack “Jack Hammer” Duckworth spent his Saturday evening in a boxing ring at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall, facing an opponent ha
  
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• Dunleavy says he plans to roll out fiscal plan ahead of Alaska lawmakers’ return to Juneau

  11-12-2025 15:05 via ktoo.org
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy greets a visitor to his final holiday open house as governor on Dec. 9, 2025. (Eric Stone | Alaska Public Media)
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he will roll out a new plan to stabilize Alaska’s tumultuous state finances in the coming weeks ahead of next month’s legislative session. The upcoming session provides Dunleavy his last chance to address an issue that has vexed his seven years in office.
  “(The) next three, four, five years are going to be tough,” Dun
  
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• Third humpback whale found dead in Unalaska since October

  11-12-2025 15:01 via ktoo.org
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported the whale in Unalaska Bay to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Dec. 4. The Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network said there is no cause of death. (Photo courtesy of Ellis Berry)
  A dead humpback whale was spotted in Unalaska Bay on Dec. 4, the third reported dead whale to wash up on the island since Oct. 16.
  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported the whale to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the same
  
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• State senators express skepticism about proposed Juneau ferry terminal backed by Dunleavy

  11-12-2025 15:00 via ktoo.org
  Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, speaks Wednesday, April 23, 2025, on the floor of the Alaska Senate. (James Brooks | Alaska Beacon)
  In a Friday hearing, members of the Alaska Senate spoke critically about a proposed new ferry terminal in Juneau, questioning why the project would be worth its multimillion-dollar cost.
  Earlier this year, state legislators planned to divert $62 million from a variety of transportation projects in order to pay for the state share of federal transportation
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025

  11-12-2025 03:00 via ktoo.org
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  In this newscast:Three months after a trial against a former Juneau chiropractor accused of sexual assault ended in mistrial, the new defense team is asking for more time to review the case before a second trial,
  This weekend, hundreds of Juneau residents braved the heavy snowfall and icy roads to make their way to a fight night downtown,
  The federal government’s official name for North America’s tallest peak
  
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• After a Juneau sexual assault case ended in mistrial, new defense team asks for more time to prepare next trial

  11-12-2025 00:10 via ktoo.org
  Public Defender Nico Ambrose in the Dimond Courthouse on Dec. 12, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  Three months after a trial against a former Juneau chiropractor accused of sexual assault ended in mistrial, the new public defense team is asking for more time to review the case before a second trial.
  Fourteen former patients accused Jeffrey Fultz of sexual assault under the guise of medical care. They say the incidents took place during medical appointments between 2014 and 2020 while he was
  
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• CCFR aims to reduce response times for Juneau residents experiencing cardiac arrest

  10-12-2025 21:33 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Capital City Fire/Rescue’s Andrew Pantiskas on Dec. 9, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  When someone experiences sudden cardiac arrest in Juneau, the average response time for Capital City Fire/Rescue is 9 minutes. 
  CCFR’s EMS Program Manager Andrew Pantiskas is leading an initiative – involving the help of Juneau community members and an app called PulsePoint – to make the response time faster.KTOO’s Mike Lane spoke with Pantiskis about this life-saving ef
  
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• Murkowski tries again to change mountain’s name to Denali

  10-12-2025 16:59 via ktoo.org
  Denali viewed from Talkeetna on March 8, 2025. (Dave Bass)
  WASHINGTON — The federal government’s official name for North America’s tallest peak is Mount McKinley.
  President Trump reinstated the moniker on Day 1 of his second term with an executive order entitled “Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness.”
  But Sen. Lisa Murkowski is trying to re-restore a much older name.
  “We have called it, this mountain, Denali in Alaska for decades, generations,”
  
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• Alaska settles 2 lawsuits against vape companies for allegedly targeting kids for addiction

  10-12-2025 16:58 via ktoo.org
  A person using a Juul vape. (Joey Mendolia/Alaska Public Media)
  The state of Alaska has settled lawsuits against Juul and Altria, two nicotine vapor manufacturers, for a combined $7.8 million, the state Department of Law said on Friday.
  The suits were part of a nationwide pattern: Alaska and other U.S. states had alleged that the companies deliberately targeted children with advertising, something that likely contributed to a surge in nicotine use among children and young adults.
  Altria settled
  
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• Release date set for Alaska State Troopers TV show

  10-12-2025 16:57 via ktoo.org
  A photographer films an Alaska State Trooper deplaning in Unalakleet for an upcoming reality TV series. (Ben Townsend/KNOM)
  The Alaska State Troopers are returning to television with a new show set to air in January. The self-titled documentary series follows troopers responding to calls across the state, including cities in the interior and villages in rural Alaska.
  Spokesperson for the troopers, Austin McDaniel, said the State of Alaska won’t be compensated for participating in the show,
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025

  10-12-2025 03:00 via ktoo.org
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  In this newscast:Artists have an opportunity to have their bear-themed art work depicted on trash cans in Juneau built to keep the animals out – and win a ten thousand dollar award,
  Thunder Mountain Middle School has recently joined the growing number of schools in Juneau composting food waste. Before rolling out the program, students led their peers through sorting out their trash and seeing how much of it can avoi
  
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• A contest for art to go on bear-resistant trash cans in Juneau opened today

  10-12-2025 03:00 via ktoo.org
  A black bear munches on grass off of Vanderbilt Hill Road near the pioneer home on April 20, 2025. (photo by Jim Weindorf)
  Artists have an opportunity to have their bear-themed art work depicted on trash cans in Juneau built to keep the animals out — and win a ten thousand dollar award.
  Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings is partnering with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to host an art contest. Selected artists will have their art turned into miniature murals that will be printed on bea
  
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• Thunder Mountain Middle School students teach peers about food waste and composting

  10-12-2025 02:53 via ktoo.org
  A student empties the contents a Cup Noodles into a bucket at Thunder Mountain Middle School on Nov. 19, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
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  This week, Thunder Mountain Middle School joined the growing number of schools composting food waste. Before rolling out the program, students in an environmental club led their peers through sorting out their trash and seeing how much of it can avoid the landfill.
  Seventh grader Thal
  
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• What was on Alaska state lawmakers’ playlists this year?

  10-12-2025 02:24 via ktoo.org
  From right, Alaska Rep. Genevieve Mina, D-Anchorage, Sen. Mike Cronk, R-Tok, and Rep. Ashley Carrick, D-Fairbanks.
  It’s that season: time for snow, holiday shopping and, of course, end-of-year top 10 lists. Last week, Spotify’s Wrapped and Apple Music’s Replay gave users their top songs, artists and genres of the year.
  That got us wondering — what did state lawmakers have on their playlist this year? We asked a few.
  Rep. Genevieve Mina, D-Anchorage: Feminine angst and en
  
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• Alumni, former staff sound alarm on mental health crisis at Mt. Edgecumbe High School

  09-12-2025 15:00 via ktoo.org
  The parking lot outside the Mt. Edgecumbe High School Aquatics Center in Sitka. (Photo by Katherine Rose/KCAW)
  When the Alaska State Board of Education & Early Development met on December 3, several Mt. Edgecumbe High School alumni, as well as current and former staff said that budget and staffing cuts over the past year were putting students at risk. Several said that over 40 students have withdrawn their enrollment so far this year.
  Tanya Kitka is a member of the school’s alumni advi
  
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• Mat-Su Republicans suggest six candidates for two spots in Alaska House of Representatives

  09-12-2025 09:24 via ktoo.org
  The Alaska State Capitol is seen on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  Republican officials in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough have proposed a field of six conservative Alaskans for two vacant seats in the Alaska House of Representatives.
  On Sunday, local Republican Party officials delivered their suggestions to replace Cathy Tilton and George Rauscher, whom Gov. Mike Dunleavy appointed to fill two vacancies in the Alaska Senate.
  Those Senate vacancies occurred when
  
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• Newscast – Monday, Dec. 8, 2025

  09-12-2025 03:00 via ktoo.org
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  In this newscast:A magnitude 7 earthquake shook Juneau and other towns in Alaska’s northern and central panhandle late Saturday morning,
  Juneau saw a snowfall record during a winter storm over the weekend, and now, freezing temperatures and clear skies are expected to stretch through most of this week,
  After more than a century, a Lingít clan will once again be the legal owners of a Raven helmet worn during
  
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• Winter storm sets a local snow record and strands a high school Nordic team in Whitehorse

  09-12-2025 02:31 via ktoo.org
  A car drives through heavy snow on Mendenhall Loop Road on December 7, 2025. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  Juneau saw a snowfall record during a winter storm over the weekend, and now, freezing temperatures and clear skies are expected to stretch through most of this week. 
  Juneau received 13.6 inches of snow this past weekend, measured at the Juneau International Airport. The majority, 9.6 inches, fell on Saturday, Dec. 6, breaking the record for that day in history, according to the Nation
  
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• Child support comes first when considering debts owed in foreclosure, Alaska Supreme Court rules

  09-12-2025 01:45 via ktoo.org
  Students swing on a playground at Meadow Lakes Head Start in Wasilla, Alaska. It closed in 2024 due to funding and staffing challenges. (Lela Seiler | CCS Early Learning)
  The Alaska Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s child support system has first priority when a foreclosed property is sold to pay multiple debts.
  The court issued its opinion on Nov. 28, resolving a long-running lawsuit brought by Global Federal Credit Union (formerly Alaska USA) against the state and several other d
  
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• Hepatitis vaccines credited as life-saving for Alaska children may be upended

  09-12-2025 01:33 via ktoo.org
  Dr. Brian McMahon, medical and research director of the liver and hepatitis program at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. stands outside at the constortium’s campus on Oct. 8, 2025. McMahon tried to convince members of the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to keep in place a recommendation for universal Hepatitis B vaccination of newborns. McMahon has spoken of his experiences treating patients in Western Alaska, which in the 1970s had the world’s highest
  
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• A Raven helmet from the 1804 Battle of Sitka will soon be back in Kiks.ádi hands after more than 100 years

  09-12-2025 00:45 via ktoo.org
  Raven helmet of Ḵ’alyáan in the Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka, circa 1906. Photo by William Thomas Shaw. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, NA2935.
  More than 200 years ago, Lingít and other Alaska Native people waged battles against invading and oppressive Russian colonists in Sitka. To this day, those battles are a symbol of Lingít resistance to colonialism. A Kiks.ádi warrior named Ḵ’alyáan led the attacks, and in 1804
  
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• Construction workshop gives Kipnuk storm evacuees new skills, new hope

  08-12-2025 21:26 via ktoo.org
  Reggie Paul of Kipnuk holds a frame that he helped to build during an Alaska Works Partnership construction workshop in Mountain View. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA)
  For several southwest Alaska communities, it will take years to replace what was lost in one night of hurricane force winds and floods, unleashed from the remnants of Typhoon Halong. Some may never rebuild completely.
  How and where to begin is a question that seven trainees tackled at a construction workshop offered by the Alaska Works Partn
  
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• What’s happening with Alaska’s largest bald eagle congregation? It’s hard to say

  08-12-2025 21:16 via ktoo.org
  A bald eagle flies through the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve in November, 2025. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS)
  Most weeks between September and December, Stacie Evans drives up the Haines highway, counting bald eagles through a high-powered scope.
  Her drives are part of a longstanding annual survey that aims to provide insight into the valley’s annual gathering of eagles, which is one of the world’s largest. Last week, she saw more than 1,400.
  “It’s the highest count that&rsq
  
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• New data shows teacher and principal turnover in Alaska continuing to rise

  08-12-2025 16:00 via ktoo.org
  Students walk into Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé on Aug. 15, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  Educator turnover rates in Alaska have increased overall, beyond levels preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from the Institute of Social and Economic Research, or ISER. It comes as the state continues working on ways to improve teacher retention and recruitment in the state. 
  Dayna DeFeo is the director of the Center for Alaska Education Policy Research, a clea
  
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• Juneau Artists Gallery features Jonathan Swinton, Juneau Symphony spreads ‘Holiday Cheer,’ and Mudrooms says ‘That’s real nice, Clark’

  08-12-2025 10:38 via ktoo.org
  Juneau Afternoon aired on Friday, December 5, 2025:
  Jonathan Swinton is the featured artist at Juneau Artists Gallery in December with a new show of cyanotypes titled “Blueprints of Rain.”
  The Juneau Symphony features Sitka Holiday Brass and Vox Borealis at its “Holiday Cheer” concerts on Saturday, December 13, and Sunday, December 14 at Thunder Mountain Middle School.
  Mudrooms storytelling event features seven storytellers on the theme of “That’s real nice,
  
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• Magnitude 7 earthquake near Yakutat shakes Southeast Alaska

  06-12-2025 23:33 via ktoo.org
  (Alaska Earthquake Center)
  A magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook Juneau and other towns in Alaska’s northern and central panhandle late Saturday morning.   
  According to the Alaska Earthquake Center, the quake happened at 11:41 a.m. and was centered roughly 55 miles north of Yakutat, at a depth of about three miles. Residents from Juneau, Haines, Whitehorse and other Southeast Alaska towns reported houses shaking briefly. There were no immediate reports of any damage. The N
  
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