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• Ketchikan issues disaster declaration after landslide

  21-10-2026 01:30 via KTOO
  Ketchikan Public Utility’s Fair Street Substation, pictured in 2024. (Photo by KRBD)
  Ketchikan’s city and borough mayors have issued a joint disaster declaration after a landslide north of town severely damaged an electric substation on Thursday. There were no injuries in the slide.
  The declaration calls for coordinated efforts between the city and the borough, as well as state and federal assistance, to restore Ketchikan Public Utility’s Ward Cove Electric Substation. Severe w
  
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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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• 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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• 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. 
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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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• Alaskans to vote on language change in voter eligibility law in midterm election

  22-10-2026 21:33 via KTOO
  Volunteers operate an in-person polling place for the special U.S. House primary election on Friday, May 27, 2022 in the atrium of the State Office Building at Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  This midterm election, Alaskan voters will decide whether to change state voter qualification language related to the citizenship requirement to vote.
  Only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in national and state elections. Ballot Measure 3, which appears on the ballot as 25USCV, woul
  
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• New USGS estimate says undiscovered North Slope gas resources equal nearly 3 years of U.S. consumption

  22-10-2026 21:20 via KTOO
  The Trans-Alaska Pipeline along the Dalton Highway near Atigun Pass in September, 2021. (Photo by Alena Naiden/KNBA)
  The U.S. Geological Survey has announced a new estimate for the natural gas potential across Alaska’s North Slope. According to the agency, the region might be storing about 96 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas.
  “It’s roughly three times the size of the known gas accumulations on the Alaska North Slope,” Alicia Lindauer, a coordinator for the agen
  
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• New opera ‘Black Rock, USA’ premieres with workshop | Glory Hall Empty Bowls 2026 | Juneau Adult Hockey Association preps for winter sign-ups

  22-10-2026 03:05 via KTOO
  Juneau Afternoon recorded live on Wednesday, October 21, 2026
  The Glory Hall benefit, Empty Bowls 2026, is set for Sunday, November 1 at 5:00 p.m. at Centennial Hall. Emcee Jorden Nigro and Executive Director Kaia Quinto share what’s in store, including the artists involved in making the popular bowls.A workshop presentation of a new opera called “Black Rock, USA” is set for Sunday, October 25 at 2:00 p.m. at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. With a libretto by tripp j crouse and music
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026

  22-10-2026 03:04 via KTOO
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  In this newscast:Juneau will have a new seasonal sales tax beginning next year. And there will be some new faces on the Juneau Assembly, while the school board remains unchanged. That’s according to the final results for Juneau’s municipal election shared last night.
  Here’s the clue: He is an Alaska resident, a longtime Jeopardy! fan, and won the game on October 13 after decades of training. If you said: Who is Ron
  
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• Alaska voters’ privacy could be at risk from state’s handling of voter rolls, judge says

  22-10-2026 02:21 via KTOO
  A banner showing President Donald Trump hangs on the Department of Justice on Feb. 20, 2026. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)
  A Superior Court judge said last week that the state Division of Elections may have violated the Alaska Constitution’s right to privacy when it handed an uncensored version of the state’s voter list to the U.S. Department of Justice last year.
  On Friday, Judge Adolf Zeman turned down the division’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed this spring by the Le
  
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• Hill campaign gains ground, but supporters worry it’s too late

  22-10-2026 02:17 via KTOO
  Bill Hill met with supporters in Anchorage on Oct. 8. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  More than 100 supporters of U.S. House challenger Bill Hill turned up at a strip mall in Anchorage in early October for a meet-and-greet/crafting event.
  The theme was make-your-own Bill Hill campaign swag. Some supporters stamped and decorated t-shirts, signs and caps. Others, like Kathryn Carovano of Anchorage, said they were just there to meet the independent candidate.
  She said she gave to Hill early, in p
  
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• Juneau’s Thatcher Brouwer named executive director of United Fishermen of Alaska

  22-10-2026 01:54 via KTOO
  Thatcher Brouwer outside the KTOO studio in Juneau on Oct. 5, 2026. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  Juneau’s Thatcher Brouwer was recently named executive director of United Fishermen of Alaska, also known as UFA. Brouwer has more than two decades under his belt as a commercial fisherman and years of experience with statewide fisheries policy.
  KTOO’s Mike Lane recently sat down with Brouwer to talk about  the challenges and rewards of working in the commercial fishing industry.
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• Final Juneau election results: seasonal sales tax passes, new members elected to Assembly

  21-10-2026 03:24 via KTOO
  Candidates and supports waves signs downtown on municipal Election Day on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Juneau will have a new seasonal sales tax beginning next year. And there will be some new faces on the Juneau Assembly, while the school board remains unchanged. That’s according to the final results for Juneau’s municipal election shared Tuesday night. 
  Juneau Assembly welcomes Mila Cosgrove, Joyce Niven and incumbent Paul Kelly
  District 1 candidate Mi
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026

  21-10-2026 03:00 via KTOO
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  In this newscast:Heavy rain and high winds are slated to continue slamming parts of Southeast Alaska through Tuesday night. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch as well as high wind advisories and warnings, concentrated mostly in the northern panhandle. Meteorologists expect impacts in Juneau, Sitka, Gustavus, Elfin Cove, Haines, Skagway and Yakutat.
  Alaska released more than a billion-and-a-half hatcher
  
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• Alaskan wins Jeopardy! after decades of applying to be on the show

  21-10-2026 00:46 via KTOO
  A screenshot of Ron Clarke tying with another Jeopardy! contestant in the final Jeopardy! round, triggering a rare tiebreaker question. The question was “A posted sign told the artists to ‘check your egos at the door’ before the recording of this 1985 single.”
  Here’s the clue: He’s an Alaska resident, a longtime “Jeopardy!” fan, and won the game on Oct. 13 after decades of training. 
  If you said: Who is Ron Clarke? – you’d be corre
  
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• Atmospheric river slams parts of Southeast

  20-10-2026 23:35 via KTOO
  High winds snapped a tree at the intersection of James Blvd. and Riverside Dr. in Juneau during the storm. (Photo Courtesy of Lacey Alexis)
  Heavy rain and high winds are slated to continue slamming parts of Southeast Alaska through Tuesday night. 
  The National Weather Service issued a flood watch as well as high wind advisories and warnings, concentrated mostly in the northern panhandle. Meteorologists expect impacts in Juneau, Sitka, Gustavus, Elfin Cove, Haines, Skagway and Yakutat. 
  
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• This midterm election, 21 Alaska judges are on the ballot for retention

  20-10-2026 22:03 via KTOO
  Alaska Supreme Court Justice Jude Pate, right, asks a question during oral arguments in a case concerning correspondence education allotments, on June 27, 2024, in the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/Alaska Beacon)
  Early in-person voting opened Monday across the state, and in addition to high-stakes races for governor and U.S. Congress voters also have a chance to weigh in on whether or not to allow 21 judges to remain on the bench.
  Under the Alaska Constitution, judge
  
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• Conservatives worry Trump’s Alaska visit may have done more harm than good

  20-10-2026 21:44 via KTOO
  President Donald Trump gestures while speaking at a rally supporting Republican candidates at the Menard Sports Center in Wasilla, Alaska on Oct. 13, 2026. (James Daggett/Alaska Public Media)
  It’s been nearly a week since President Trump held a rally in Wasilla campaigning for Republican candidates up and down the ballot. He urged supporters to vote for Republicans in the races for House and Senate and unveiled his pick for governor: business owner Bernadette Wilson.
  And since the preside
  
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• Republican Treg Taylor refuses Trump’s call to exit Alaska governor’s race

  20-10-2026 15:00 via KTOO
  Former Republican Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor at Debate for the State at Alaska Public Media’s studio on Oct. 8, 2026. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Former Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor says he, too, is staying in the race for governor despite President Trump’s call for Republicans to unite behind small business owner Bernadette Wilson.
  In a Truth Social post endorsing Wilson on Tuesday, Trump denigrated Taylor and former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson. He said he h
  
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• Alaska Federation of Natives convention celebrates 60th anniversary this week

  20-10-2026 15:00 via KTOO
  Anna Frank accepts the Citizen of the Year Award at the 2025 Alaska Federation of Natives Convention. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Two major gatherings of Alaska Native people are taking place at Anchorage’s Dena’ina Civic & Convention Center this week. The Elders & Youth Conference began on Sunday. And on Thursday, the Alaska Federation of Natives will begin its 60th anniversary AFN convention.
  Roy Agloinga, president of First Alaskans Institute, said the convention o
  
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• Two events in Juneau this week focus on cancer and community wellness

  20-10-2026 03:24 via KTOO
  The Southeast Cancer Center, which houses Cancer Connection, in Juneau on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Two community wellness events in Juneau are coming up – one focused on empowering cancer survivors, and the other on early cancer detection. 
  This Friday, Oct. 23, Southeast Radiation Oncology Center is hosting a free prostate cancer screening. It’ll be at Devil’s Club Brewing Company and it’s for men over age 40.
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• Newscast – Monday, Oct. 19, 2026

  20-10-2026 03:00 via KTOO
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  In this newscast:Two community wellness events focused on cancer are coming up this week in Juneau.
  More than 70 people gathered in the rain Saturday morning in Juneau to partake in a nationwide No Kings rally downtown.
  Ketchikan’s city and borough mayors have issued a joint disaster declaration after a landslide north of town severely damaged an electric substation last week.
  The Ketchikan Wellness Coalition has be
  
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• No Kings ralliers in Juneau urge residents to get out and vote in midterm election

  19-10-2026 23:46 via KTOO
  Juneau residents brave the rain on Saturday to partake in a nationwide No Kings rally downtown on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  More than 70 people gathered in the rain Saturday morning in Juneau to partake in a nationwide No Kings rally downtown. 
  The rally aimed to inspire people to get out and vote in this November’s midterm election. Bundled up in rain gear at the Juneau-Douglas bridge intersection, Judy Urquhart said she’s using her vote to protect
  
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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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• Trump administration expands vehicle access to Alaska’s Denali National Park

  19-10-2026 15:00 via KTOO
  Denali National Park visitors, ferried by shuttle bus, take in a view of Denali, North America’s tallest peak, on Aug. 9, 2012. Seen in the background is the sole road that runs through the park. Denali is unusual among U.S. national parks for its strict limits on vehicle traffic. Vehicle use is restricted beyond the first 15 miles of the park’s 92-mile road, and most of it is by shuttle bus. A new rule will increase the number of vehicles allowed past the road’s first 15 mile
  
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• In Alaska campaign rally, Trump and Sullivan say Iran war is worth the cost to Americans

  19-10-2026 15:00 via KTOO
  A U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft refuels from a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft during Operation Epic Fury, March 31, 2026. (U.S. Central Command Public Affairs/U.S. Air Force photo)
  At a rally in Wasilla on Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said America’s war with Iran is worth the resulting increased cost of fuel and food for Americans.
  “No matter what it is, it’s a small price to pay for stopping them from having a nuclear weapon,&
  
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• Newscast – Friday, Oct. 16, 2026

  17-10-2026 03:06 via KTOO
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  In this newscast:
  A former manager of Juneau’s Switzer Village Mobile Home Park allegedly embezzled funds, failed to pay back millions in loans and sold property she didn’t own. That’s according to a lawsuit her mother, the majority owner of Switzer Village, filed earlier this month.
  Juneau’s Tlingit Culture, Language, and Literacy program received a $14,000 food sovereignty grant. The money comes
  
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