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• Juneau Afternoon – 1-25-17

  25-01-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon,We’ll talk with Heather Mitchell about Juneau Cabaret activities;
  Kameron Perez‐Verdia President/CEO of the Alaska Humanities Forum, will be here to highlight this year’s Awards recipients;Linda Buckley will be here with a preview of this Friday’s book signing/performance
  We’ll talk with Greg Fitch about the Mental Health Consumer Action Network;
  Marian Call will offer a preview of Friday’s Canadian Tuxedo Party Fundraiser
  
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• Juneau Assembly to decide on key local election topics at Monday meeting

  24-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Mendenhall Wastewater Facility on Thursday, July 23, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Juneau Assembly is slated to tackle major local election topics at its regular meeting on Monday night.  
  The Assembly will vote on whether to put two potential bond debt proposals worth $25 million on this fall’s local election ballot. 
  One bond question would ask voters to approve up to $16 million in debt to fund renovations and upgrades at several public schools. The other a
  
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• Race for Juneau’s school board seats remains uncontested

  24-07-2026 03:46 via ktoo.org
  
  A graphic of Britteny Cioni-Haywood (left) on April 14, 2026 and David Noon (right) on Feb. 19, 2026. (Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  As the candidate filing deadline approaches, the race for Juneau’s two open school board seats appears to be uncontested so far. Anyone else interested in running has until Monday afternoon to file.
  As of Thursday afternoon, only incumbents Britteny Cioni-Haywood and David Noon have filed to run.Lon Garrison encourages other people in Juneau to run. He is the recently ret
  
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• Cruise ship reports its fourth outbreak of stomach illness this year after recent docking in Juneau

  24-07-2026 03:38 via ktoo.org
  
  The National Geographic Sea Bird. (Photo courtesy of Ethan Ableman/Flickr)
  A small cruise ship traveling through Southeast Alaska has reported outbreaks of a gastrointestinal illness on two back-to-back voyages this month. On one of the sailings, nearly a third of the passengers got sick.
  That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which today reported the fourth outbreak aboard the National Geographic Sea Bird since late May. The Sea Bird is a small cruise ship of
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, July 23, 2026

  24-07-2026 03:06 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:The Alaska Division of Elections has moed thousands of registered voters to its “inactive” list due to suspicion that they are not citizens.
  As the candidate filing deadline approaches, the race for Juneau’s two open school board seats appears to be uncontested so far.
  One of Dutch Harbor’s major seafood processors plans to pay about $5,900 to federal regulators to settle violation
  
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• Federal government to pay ANTHC $400M in settlement over unpaid administrative costs

  23-07-2026 22:41 via ktoo.org
  
  The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s Anchorage headquarters on June 30, 2021. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media)
  Alaska’s main Native healthcare organization is set to receive $400 million from the federal government for unpaid expenses after the U.S. Department of Justice settled a lawsuit the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium filed in 2021.
  The Department of Justice announced the settlement on Tuesday. ANTHC’s lawsuit claimed that for seven years, the fe
  
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• State removes 3,500 Alaskans from voter rolls, based in part on ‘old data’

  23-07-2026 21:58 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska Elections Director Carol Beecher was the main witness at a legislative hearing July 22, 2026. (Mikayla Finnerty/Alaska Public Media)
  The Alaska Division of Elections has moved thousands of registered voters to its “inactive” list due to suspicion that they are not citizens.
  State Director of Elections Carol Beecher acknowledged to legislators at a hearing in Anchorage Wednesday that the allegations may be based on “very old data.”
  She said her agency sent a letter
  
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• Newscast: Wednesday, July 22, 2026

  23-07-2026 19:28 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:Human remains were discovered inside a chest freezer at a Lemon Creek residence on Sunday.
  Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone are preparing for the annual flood expected soon. At a sandbag event in Mendenhall Valley on Saturday, some of that prep work is easier and faster than it was last year.
  Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski announced last week that her bill allowing five Alaska Nat
  
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• Theater Alaska opens ‘Cry It Out,’ a funny and heartfelt comedy about motherhood | Flood preparation and safety with the City and Borough of Juneau

  23-07-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau Afternoon – Recorded live on Wednesday, July 22, 2026
  Juneau Afternoon featuring Theater Alaska’s “Cry It Out” play opening this week, and CBJ Emergency Services on flood preparation and safety.
  Audio PodcastVideo LivestreamBostin Christopher hosts the conversation. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3:00 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK with a rebroadcast at 7:00 p.m. Listen online or subscribe to the podcast at ktoo.org/juneauafternoon.Subscribe to the podcast:Apple PodcastsNPR
  
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• Seventeen governor candidates vie for votes in Alaska’s primary election

  23-07-2026 00:28 via ktoo.org
  
  A summary sheet is seen during ballot review on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, at the headquarters of the Alaska Division of Elections in Juneau. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  The first two votes in Alaska’s Aug. 18 primary election have already been cast.
  According to records published by the absentee and petition office of the Alaska Division of Elections, two voters — one in South Carolina and another in Hawaii — returned their ballots on July 17.
  Thousands more voters will cast the
  
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• Sen. Murkowski’s ‘landless’ bill advances to U.S. Senate floor

  23-07-2026 00:16 via ktoo.org
  
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski at the U.S. Capitol in 2023. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  A bill allowing five Alaska Native communities in Southeast to receive land entitlements passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
  Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski announced July 16 that her bill had advanced to the Senate floor.
  The legislation, called the Alaska Native Landless Equity Act, would allow Haines, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg and Tenakee to form Alaska Native corporati
  
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• Bycatch: What to know about the fish issue taking the spotlight in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race

  23-07-2026 00:07 via ktoo.org
  
  Pollock are transferred from a fishing boat into a processing plant in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, in January 2019. (Berett Wilber/KUCB)
  Calls to “ban trawling” or “end bycatch” in the pollock fishery are reaching a fever-pitch this election season. A survey last year by a progressive polling firm, Data for Progress, found 74% of Alaskans support a federal ban on trawling. The framing of the question surely contributed, but it still suggests an eye-popping leve
  
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• Filling sandbags to prepare for Juneau’s glacial outburst flooding is quicker this year

  22-07-2026 20:42 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau city employees fill Bob and Adrienne Atadero’s truck with sandbags on July 18, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone are preparing their homes for the annual flood expected soon. At a sandbag event in Dimond Park, some of that labor is a bit easier and faster than it was last year.  
  On Saturday, a steady stream of Mendenhall Valley residents drove up to a grid of wooden pallets with around 40 sandbags stacked on each. The m
  
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• Human remains discovered in freezer in Juneau

  22-07-2026 03:25 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau Police in the Mendenhall Valley on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Human remains were discovered inside a chest freezer at a Lemon Creek residence on Sunday.
  That’s according to an information release from the Juneau Police Department on Tuesday. Police received a report from a person cleaning out the home of a dead family member when they discovered the remains in a chest freezer Sunday evening. The freezer was in a shed on the property. 
  Juneau Deputy Police C
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, July 21, 2026

  22-07-2026 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:Juneau now has a free vending machine to distribute community health and healing supplies,
  As the threat of the next glacial outburst flood looms over Juneau, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will pay for repairs to the flood wall in the aftermath,
  A woman is safe after she lost strength while swimming in the water near Mill Street in downtown Ketchikan,
  Rockskippers recently competed on a beach a
  
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• New free vending machine in Juneau distributes lifesaving interventions

  22-07-2026 00:39 via ktoo.org
  
  Tlingit and Haida President Chalyee Eesh Richard Peterson and Community and Behavioral Services staff member Bettyann Carlos at the grand opening of a free vending machine in downtown Juneau on July 21, 2026. Photo by (Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  Juneau now has a free vending machine to distribute community health and healing supplies. The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska recently opened one downtown. 
  The vending machine is located at the tribe’s Edward K. Th
  
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• Wrangell’s proposed repair shipyard could cost up to $726M

  21-07-2026 23:11 via ktoo.org
  
  This generated image of the proposed Wrangell shipyard was shared during a town hall meeting July 14, 2026.
  The Southeast island town of Wrangell is moving forward with plans to build a massive shipyard that could repair state ferries, U.S. Coast Guard ships, research vessels and military vessels.
  Wrangell already has a busy marine service center that hauls out large commercial vessels locally and from nearby communities. The proposed shipyard would service much larger ships, up to 500 feet long
  
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• Lawmakers approve state audit of the Alaska Board of Fisheries

  21-07-2026 23:06 via ktoo.org
  
  Fishing boats in the Robert E. Galovin Small Boat Harbor in Sand Point are seen on Aug 7, 2025, before heading out to the Area M fishery. (Theo Greenly)
  A legislative audit committee instructed the state auditor to investigate the past three years of process and legal compliance of the board tasked with developing policy and managing Alaska’s fisheries.
  Rep. Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak and chair of the House Fisheries Committee, made the request for the special audit of the Alaska Bo
  
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• Bill to fast-track glacial outburst flood solution in Juneau heads to U.S. Senate

  21-07-2026 20:24 via ktoo.org
  
  
  David Morris receives a pallet of sandbags at Dimond Park on July 18, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
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  As the threat of the next glacial outburst flood looms over Juneau, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will pay for repairs to the flood wall in the aftermath and a bipartisan federal bill that would accelerate a long-term solution heads to the U.S. Senate.
  The Water Resources Development Act pas
  
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• Newscast – Monday, July 20, 2026

  21-07-2026 03:04 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:A driver struck a Juneau man on a skateboard near the Juneau-Douglas Bridge late last night, causing life-threatening injuries.
  Setting a trial date for a former Juneau school principal is delayed again.
  The city of Wrangell is moving forward with plans to build a massive shipyard.
  The lead Democrat in the race for Alaska’s U.S. House seat is suspending his campaign.
  Making biochar adds another way
  
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• Pre-trial for Juneau principal assault case delayed for a second time

  21-07-2026 03:03 via ktoo.org
  
  The Dzantik’i Heeni campus on March 11, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  Setting a trial date for a former Juneau school principal is delayed again.
  John Paul was charged with assault in April following an incident with a student. Paul is accused of restraining a student in March. He was placed on administrative leave the same day.
  Paul’s trial was already pushed back once in June. At a pre-trial hearing Monday at the Dimond Courthouse in Juneau, his defence attorney requested more t
  
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• Skateboarder hit by vehicle near Juneau-Douglas Bridge

  20-07-2026 23:18 via ktoo.org
  
  The Juneau-Douglas Bridge in June 2023. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  This is a developing story.
  A driver struck a Juneau man on a skateboard near the Juneau-Douglas Bridge late Sunday night, causing life-threatening injuries.
  According to the Juneau Police Department, the collision happened at around 11 p.m. Sunday night. The 36-year-old man, who has not been identified, was riding a skateboard over the Juneau-Douglas Bridge toward 10th Street. While crossing the intersection on the Juneau si
  
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• Alaska state legislator chases bear away from fellow lawmaker outside state Capitol

  20-07-2026 22:20 via ktoo.org
  
  A black bear clings to a tree trunk in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in this undated photo. (National Park Service)
  Rep. Garret Nelson, R-Sutton, chased a black bear away from Rep. Julie Coulombe, R-Anchorage, in front of the Alaska State Capitol during a late-night encounter this week.
  “It was a real safari night,” Nelson said on social media.
  According to Coulombe, she was walking toward the Assembly Building, home to apartments used by legislators, when s
  
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• Hilcorp killed Alaska LNG bill, some legislators say, but governor calls the claim ‘bulls**t’

  20-07-2026 22:19 via ktoo.org
  
  On Wednesday, one day before the Alaska Legislature voted on a multibillion-dollar tax break for the proposed trans-Alaska gas pipeline, Rep. Calvin Schrage, I-Anchorage, gave the pipeline’s lead developer a sneak preview of the bill.
  For weeks, Schrage had been in charge of negotiating a compromise version of the tax break that could get approval from the state House, Senate and Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
  He walked Glenfarne Alaska President Adam Prestidge through the compromise, explaining sect
  
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• EPA waives restrictions on using high-sulfur diesel on the North Slope

  20-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A water truck and blade add layers of ice chips and water to an ice road near a flow line on the Western North Slope in 2017. (Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  The Environmental Protection Agency issued a temporary waiver Friday under the Clean Air Act for using diesel with higher sulfur levels above the Arctic Circle in Alaska. In a letter to Gov. Mike Dunleavy, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the 20-day waiver was meant to address fuel supply disruptions caused by the war in the
  
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• Alaska state attorney arrested by ICE, held at Tacoma detention center

  20-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Department of Homeland Security office in Anchorage. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained a state of Alaska lawyer who is originally from China, according to ICE officials.
  Federal officers arrested Shucheng “Charlie” Yang, 32, on July 10 in Anchorage, a spokesperson for ICE said in an email.
  Yang is a Chinese national and violated the terms of his admission to the U.S. and is subject to deportation, the spokesperson said.
  As of
  
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• Alaska regulators fine North Slope oil field operator for unauthorized gas flaring

  20-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The nameplate on Mustang Holding LLC’s downtown Anchorage office is seen on July 16, 2026. The company is the leaseholder and operator of the Southern Miluveach Unit, which has gone through ownership changes and financial troubles. Mustang Holding flared natural gas for five months without authorization to do so, state regulators say. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  Alaska regulators on Wednesday assessed a $741,520 civil penalty against the operator of a small and trouble-plagued North Slope
  
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• Matt Schultz suspends his campaign for U.S. House, endorses Bill Hill

  18-07-2026 09:48 via ktoo.org
  
  The Revs. Elizabeth and Matthew Schultz at an April 5, 2025 protest in Anchorage against President Trump’s budget cuts. (Liz Ruskin | Alaska Public Media)
  The lead Democrat in the race for Alaska’s U.S. House seat is suspending his campaign.
  Progressive Anchorage pastor Matt Schultz was aiming to run against incumbent Congressman Nick Begich, a Republican.
  But he had stiff competition in his own political lane. Schultz and another challenger, independent candidate Bill Hill, vied fo
  
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• Newscast – Friday, July 17, 2026

  18-07-2026 03:03 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:The retrial against a former Juneau chiropractor accused of assaulting more than a dozen women still has no set trial date, nearly a year after the first trial.
  The filing period to run for a seat on Juneau’s Assembly or school baord opened friday, and some residents were itching to enter the races.
  A brown bear attacked at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage by another bear last month has been transferred
  
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• Red Cross offers free emergency preparedness workshop in Juneau on Sunday

  18-07-2026 02:54 via ktoo.org
  
  American Red Cross assists evacuees after a landslide on Gastineau Rd in Juneau Alaska, Sept. 26 2022. (Paige Sparks/KTOO)
  The American Red Cross is hosting a free emergency preparedness workshop and resource fair on Sunday, July 19, at the Mendenhall Valley Library. 
  The event begins at 12 p.m. with a presentation followed by a planning workshop and resource fair from 1 to 3 p.m.“We’re hosting this before the [glacial lake outburst flood] in hopes our community will feel more p
  
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