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• Master’s Faire | JGLT’s ‘A Feast For Your Ears’ cabaret | Sustainability Commission’s dock tour

  09-07-2026 22:56 via ktoo.org
  Juneau Afternoon – Recorded live on Wednesday, July 8, 2026
  Juneau Afternoon featuring Master’s Faire, JGLT “Feast for Your Ears” cabaret, and Commission on Sustainability Docks and Harbors tour.
  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 OneSp
  
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• Dunleavy vetoes limits on campaign donations, ensuring August vote to impose new caps

  10-07-2026 20:20 via ktoo.org
  
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks during a news conference on June 19, 2026. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill Thursday that would have reimposed limits on campaign contributions in state elections, ensuring an August vote on a similar ballot measure will go forward.
  The veto means that for now, donors can continue to give an unlimited amount of money to candidates for governor, the state Legislature and more. A federal appeals court ruled in 2021 that Alaska’s $500
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, July 9, 2026

  10-07-2026 03:06 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill today that would have reimposed limits on campaign contributions in state elections.
  The City and Borough of Juneau released a new evacuation zone map in preparation for the glacial outburst flood expected later this summer.
  The Alaska Beacon reports Alaskans who have been wrongfully convicted can now apply to claim Alaska Permanent Fund dividends that were withheld while
  
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• Juneau releases new glacial outburst flood evacuation map

  10-07-2026 02:19 via ktoo.org
  
  Benjamin Coronell and S’eiltin Jamiann Hasselquist with the Juneau Tlingit and Haida Community Council fill sandbags before the flood in 2025 (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
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  The City and Borough of Juneau released a new evacuation zone map in preparation for the glacial outburst flood expected later this summer. At a press conference on Thursday morning, public safety officials said the evacuation zone i
  
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• Alaskans with certain low-level marijuana convictions can keep record private under new law

  10-07-2026 01:43 via ktoo.org
  
  Buds of marijuana on display inside Mother Earth Wellness in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
  Alaskans who have been convicted for low-level marijuana possession will be able to apply to keep their records confidential so they do not appear in background checks, under a new law that takes effect in 2027.
  The change is part of a wide-ranging omnibus crime package that was approved by the Alaska Legislature and allowed to pass into law without Gov
  
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• Faced with surging power bills, the Haines landfill is going off-grid

  10-07-2026 01:18 via ktoo.org
  
  Community Waste Solutions General Manager Craig Franke said it should be cheaper to go fully off-grid than to rely on the local utility. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS)
  Once a week, employees at the Haines landfill scoop mountains of trash into a machine that squashes it into gigantic cubes.
  The baling process significantly reduces how much space the garbage occupies, solving a major real estate problem. But it also takes a lot of power, which historically has come from the local utility, Alaska Power and
  
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• Under new agreement, federal government limits obstacles to oil leasing in Alaska’s Arctic refuge

  10-07-2026 01:06 via ktoo.org
  
  A single caribou stands in 2019 amid cottongrass and other tundra plants near the Hulahula River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Alexis Bonogofsky/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  The federal government has agreed to permanently loosen rules for oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according to a draft settlement agreement filed this week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska.
  Adam Gustafson, an attorney with the U.S. Departme
  
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• Q&A: Southeast Alaska Food Bank on growing demand

  09-07-2026 21:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Dan Parks, the executive director of the Southeast Alaska Food Bank, smiles for a photo at KTOO on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  For almost three decades the Southeast Alaska Food Bank has served people in Juneau, as well as other Southeast communities. KTOO’s Mike Lane visited with Dan Parks, the executive director of the food bank, about the organization’s beginnings, how it works, and how community members can help.
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• Newscast – Wednesday, July 8, 2026

  09-07-2026 03:18 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:The Juneau School District’s chief financial officer is resigning.
  Some whale advocates want to relist Pacific gray whales under the Endangered Species Act.
  A team of experts is working to salvage a Coast Guard helicopter that crashed on Sitka’s Harbor Mountain last month.
  A Soldotna swimmer brought home silver in the 50-yard freestyle at the Special Olympics USA games last month in Minnesota.
  
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• Turnover continues among Juneau School District top officials

  09-07-2026 01:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau School District Chief Financial Officer Nicole Herbert speaks during a school board meeting at Thunder Mountain Middle School in Juneau on march 13, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  The Juneau School District’s chief financial officer is resigning. That means nearly everyone in the district’s top leadership team will be new to their role this school year. 
  Nicole Herbert has worked for the district since March 2025 and was responsible for overseeing the district’s b
  
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• Many gas pipeline construction jobs will go to non-Alaskans, 2020 study indicates

  09-07-2026 01:03 via ktoo.org
  
  Fireweed blooms on either side of the trans-Alaska pipeline near mile post 86, Dalton Highway in 2006, two years after the 2004 Dall City fire. (Craig McCaa/BLM Alaska)
  If built as proposed, the trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline is expected to create thousands of jobs. Many, if not most, will go to people who don’t live in Alaska.
  A six-year-old study, commissioned by the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. as part of the project’s environmental statement, says “an estimated
  
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• Gray whales are washing up dead in large numbers along the Pacific Coast

  09-07-2026 00:52 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A gray whale washed up on the southern end of Kodiak’s road system, June 6, 2025. (Brian Venua/KMXT)
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  Pacific gray whales are washing ashore in high numbers this year.Their deaths are part of an overall population decline linked to climate change, and some whale advocates want to relist the species under the Endangered Species Act. 
  According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati
  
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• Wrongfully convicted Alaskans can now apply for withheld PFDs under new law

  08-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Spring Creek Correctional Center is seen in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Alaska Department of Corrections)
  Alaskans who have been wrongfully convicted can now apply to claim Alaska Permanent Fund dividends that were withheld while they were incarcerated, under a new law.
  The Alaska Legislature passed Senate Bill 167 by a combined vote of 58 to 2, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy allowed the bill to pass into law without his signature last month.
  Under current Alaska law, those who are incarcer
  
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• Trump pardons Wasilla mechanic who removed anti-pollution devices from diesel pickups

  08-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
   
  WASHINGTON — President Trump has pardoned a diesel mechanic from Wasilla who was convicted of removing pollution-control equipment from diesel vehicles.
  Trump granted full clemency on Friday to Mackenzie Spurlock, co-owner of Matanuska Diesel.
  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan celebrated Spurlock’s pardon. He and other critics of the anti-pollution equipment say it often fails in temperatures lower than 12 degrees, sometimes leaving drivers with a vehicle that could only go 5 miles per h
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, July 7, 2026

  08-07-2026 03:04 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:Juneau’s city-owned Eaglecrest Ski Area will soon have a new general manager.
  State lawmakers are debating whether to controversial tax change in a bill aimed at easing the financial case for the Alaska LNG project.
  A red-tailed hawk named Warrior escaped from the American Bald Eagle Foundation in Haines on Friday.
  Fairbanks scientists are tracking a tiny parasite that lives in local swimming holes
  
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• Corporate income tax change remains key sticking point for Alaska gas pipeline bill

  08-07-2026 01:10 via ktoo.org
  
  The Alaska State Capitol is seen on May 18, 2026. (Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)
  The Alaska state Capitol was quiet Monday, with halls empty and offices dark as legislators traveled and visited their home districts amid an ongoing special session.
  Lawmakers reached by phone said they expect next week to be different, and a key vote that would decide the fate of the tax break for the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline could take place on July 16.
  “This week I’m expecting
  
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• Former Juneau pools manager to head Eaglecrest Ski Area

  07-07-2026 23:59 via ktoo.org
  
  Julie Jackson Piper will be the new general manager of Eaglecrest Ski Area. (Photo courtesy of the City and Borough of Juneau)
  Juneau’s city-owned Eaglecrest Ski Area will soon have a new general manager. The board announced Tuesday during a special meeting that Julie Jackson Piper will head the ski area as it navigates a particularly volatile moment in its history.
  The previous general manager resigned in January. Director of Snowsports School, Rental, Retail and Repair Erin Lupro has fil
  
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• Juneau’s cherished ski area is losing money. Will the city keep paying?

  07-07-2026 21:47 via ktoo.org
  
  Eaglecrest, located on Juneau’s Douglas Island, rises above the Inside Passage. (Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal)
  Last winter’s first big storm came in December. Then came another. And another. By New Year’s Day, four feet of fresh snow blanketed the city of Juneau.
  For many locals, it was a crisis: Roofs collapsed; boats sank in the harbor.
  For Juneau’s fervent alpine skiers and snowboarders, it could have been a godsend.
  Except they had nowhere to ski.
  During one of Jun
  
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• Juneau museum’s path forward remains hazy amid staff and budget cuts

  07-07-2026 21:30 via ktoo.org
  
  The Juneau-Douglas City Museum on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  After more than eight years leading the Juneau-Douglas City Museum as its director, Beth Weigel’s last day is Thursday, July 9. 
  Weigel was one of two full-time staff members laid off after the Assembly decided to cut $261,000 from the museum’s annual funding as part of an effort to address a multimillion-dollar recurring budget shortfall. 
  In her final weeks with the city, Weigel wanted
  
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• Probe finds letter from Homer Rep. Vance likely violated ethics law

  07-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
   
  The Alaska state House’s ethics committee found Homer Republican Rep. Sarah Vance likely violated state law by using publicly funded resources to criticize a local newspaper’s coverage of a Charlie Kirk memorial last year.
  The committee found probable cause that Vance’s use of publicly funded letterhead and an official social media account to object to the Homer News’ description of Kirk’s views violated a portion of the Legislative Ethics Act&
  
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• Newscast – Monday, July 6, 2026

  07-07-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast: A black bear entered Juneau’s historic Alaskan Hotel on Sunday,
  Ship traffic is growing in the Arctic and scientists are looking at how that affects marine mammals,
  A California couple set out to play a game of croquet on the lawn of every state capitol, but Alaska’s doesn’t have a lawn,
  The Alaska state House’s ethics committee says Homer Republican Representative Sarah Vanc
  
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• A black bear checked into Juneau’s historic Alaskan Hotel

  07-07-2026 02:18 via ktoo.org
  
  A black bear looks around the second floor hallway of the Alaskan Hotel on Sunday, July 5, 2026. (Photo courtesy of Queenie Lim)
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  A black bear entered Juneau’s historic Alaskan Hotel around noon on Sunday. Hotel staff said the bear let itself out with a loud crash just a short while later. 
  The bear crawled through the open, second story window of room 213, which is at ground level since t
  
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• Team to salvage site of Coast Guard helicopter crash in Sitka

  07-07-2026 00:07 via ktoo.org
  
  The MH-60 Jayhawk from Air Station Sitka went down on Harbor Mountain on June 22. (USCG)
  A team of experts is working to salvage a Coast Guard helicopter that crashed on Sitka’s Harbor Mountain last month. The U.S. Coast Guard said in a press release that the effort is being led by the Downed Aircraft Recovery Team from the Alaska Army National Guard out of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The group plans to assess the aircraft for its removal, recover the wreckage, and mitigate
  
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• NOAA eyes potential changes to Alaska sea lion protections as Trump urges boosted seafood harvests

  06-07-2026 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Steller Sea lions rest on a rocky ledge in Kenai Fjords National Park on July 31, 2013. The western population of Steller sea lions is listed as endangered, and fishery managers have imposed protection to limit the impacts to the animals from commercial seafood harvest. (Photo by Kaitlin Thoresen/National Park Service)
  Federal regulators plan to reevaluate fishing closure boundaries established to protect endangered Steller sea lions in Alaska, part of a national Trump administration push to cut
  
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• Couple ends nearly 20-year journey to play croquet on every state Capitol lawn in Juneau

  06-07-2026 15:01 via ktoo.org
  
  Ashton and Lydia Buswell pose holding croquet mallets across the street from the Alaska State Capitol Building in Juneau on June 27, 2026. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
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  Ashton Buswell cheered on a rainy Saturday morning as his sister hit a croquet ball at the State Capitol Building in Juneau. His family set up the game in a bit of an unconventional spot. 
  While croquet is typically played on a lawn, the Alaska State
  
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• As ship traffic rises, 2 new studies look at how that could affect marine mammals in the Arctic

  06-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Bowheads surfacing near a tug boat. (Katie Stafford)
  In the increasingly warming Arctic, less sea ice means more ship traffic. In two recent studies scientists are looking at how that affects marine mammals.
  The studies, published in June, concluded that for bowhead whales and ringed seals, exposure to ships during the ice-covered season is relatively low for now. Still, scientists have concerns about the future effects of ships on wildlife.
  Angela Szesciorka, a researcher with Oregon State Univ
  
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• Alaska is a dud at the Great American State Fair

  03-07-2026 22:58 via ktoo.org
  
  Mary and Ken Rinke drove from Michigan to attend the Great American State Fair on June 27, 2026. They were disappointed Alaska had no presence. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  WASHINGTON — All 50 states have space at the Great American State Fair, underway now on the National Mall, but only some states approach greatness.
  Michigan, for instance, homestate of Kellogg’s, is giving away little bags of cereal and Michigan-grown potato chips. It’s got a prize wheel and quizzes. It
  
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• Juneau’s July Fourth fireworks display postponed to Saturday

  03-07-2026 22:50 via ktoo.org
  
  People watch the fireworks launched from Gastineau Channel for the 2017 Fourth of July celebration. (Photo courtesy Matt Miller)
  Juneau’s July Fourth fireworks show is being postponed until Saturday night at 11:59 p.m. 
  In a video posted to social media, the Juneau Fireworks Crew made the announcement from a barge in Gastineau Channel. 
  “We are letting you know that, unfortunately, it is so windy and rainy out on the barge that we can’t set up tents to set up your fir
  
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• Alaska’s persistently high SNAP payment errors top nation for fourth consecutive year

  03-07-2026 22:19 via ktoo.org
  
  A shopper passes by a sign welcoming SNAP recipients at a Fred Meyer store in Anchorage on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Alaska’s food assistance program had the highest payment error rate in the country for a fourth straight year last year, according to rankings put out by the Agriculture Department late last month.
  During the last federal fiscal year, which ended in September 2025, 23% of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients in Alaska ended up w
  
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• Fostering 48 parakeets: Alaska’s senior boom strains bird rescue groups

  03-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  A handful of the nearly 30 parakeets that Karen Rappe is fostering in her South Anchorage home on June 24. 2026. To apply to adopt a bird, contact the Alaska Bird Club.
  Parakeet cages filled a room in a modest house in South Anchorage. The birds’ chattering and chirping mixed with country music coming from a boombox below the cages.
  As the music swelled at the refrain “Somebody pour me a drank” the birds’ chirping increased, followed by loud squawks.
  The sound keeps them
  
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