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• New downtown bear cans to feature local artist’s design

  15-07-2026 00:45 via ktoo.org
  
  Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings’ Dan Farkas presents Juneau artist Crystal Jackson with a check for her award-winning bear trash can design on July 14, 2026. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  Local artist Crystal Jackson’s painting of bears frolicking on a rainbow background is the winning artwork in a contest to decorate 44 new bear cans in downtown Juneau. 
  The design features three panels of black bears eating, playing and climbing trees. 
  “I wanted to capture differen
  
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• Sealaska Heritage Institute shares plan to tear down Juneau’s City Hall, build new arts facility

  16-07-2026 23:55 via ktoo.org
  
  This is an aerial view of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s plan to replace Juneau’s City Hall building with a new facility. (MRV Architects, courtesy of Sealaska Heritage Institute)
  The City and Borough of Juneau is looking to sell its City Hall building downtown as it moves staff to the Michael J. Burns building in the near future. 
  Sealaska Heritage Institute, whose mission is to uplift Lingít, Haida and Ts’msyen cultures of Southeast Alaska, says it’s interest
  
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• Juneau’s Spice Indian restaurant is up for sale

  16-07-2026 23:11 via ktoo.org
  
  Nimmy Philips poses for a photo outside her restaurant, Spice Juneau Indian Cuisine, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A popular downtown Juneau restaurant is now up for sale — but it’s not closing any time soon. 
  Earlier this month, a listing for the sale of Spice Juneau Indian Cuisine went online. But according to Nimmy Philips, the restaurant’s owner, residents shouldn’t be worried. 
  “I want to stay open. No doors are closing.
  
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• New Indigenous Health and Healing courses from UAS | P.E.O. Chapter G student scholarships | Municipal elections breakdown

  16-07-2026 22:32 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau Afternoon – Recorded live on Wednesday, July 15, 2026
  Juneau Afternoon featuring new UAS Indigenous Health and Healing learning pathway, P.E.O. Chapter G offers scholarships to Juneau Grads, and a look at city elections and how you can get involved.
  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.Subsc
  
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• Peltola vastly outraises Sullivan in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race

  16-07-2026 22:15 via ktoo.org
  
  Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican Dan Sullivan are vying for his U.S. Senate seat. (Alaska Public Media)
  WASHINGTON — The latest campaign finance data in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race show Democrat Mary Peltola has vastly outraised incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan.
  Peltola’s campaign raised $6.9 million since April 1, while Sullivan raised more than $2 million.
  Candidates also have other pots of money, like leadership PACs. Sullivan’s campaign said he’s raised
  
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• Three rescued from boat fire near Ketchikan

  16-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Coast Guard Station Ketchikan received a report that a fishing vessel was adrift and engulfed in flames near South Pennock Island. (U.S. Coast Guard Sector Southeast Alaska)
  Three people were rescued from a boat that caught fire near Ketchikan this weekend. At around 7:30 a.m. Sunday, the Coast Guard Station Ketchikan received a report that a fishing vessel was adrift and engulfed in flames near South Pennock Island. The three occupants on the vessel were rescued by a charter fishing boat an
  
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• Commercial troll fishery stays open with half of allotted kings remaining

  16-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Trollers moored in Sitka’s Crescent Harbor. (Berett Wilber/KCAW)
  Southeast Alaska’s commercial king salmon fishery will remain open until further notice. The July 1 king opener for trollers, who fish with hook and line, is usually over quickly– it typically lasts anywhere from a handful of days to a week. But this year, with two weeks down, trollers are only at the halfway mark toward catching their target.
  Grant Hagerman is the Southeast region’s commercial troll managem
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, July 15, 2026

  16-07-2026 03:03 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:A Juneau non-profit is looking for local childcare providers to offer after-school care at two elementary schools that lost the service in recent years.
  The Juneau Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating the person who submerged a truck in Gastineau Channel near Douglas Harbor early this morning.
  Processors are paying more for commercial salmon this season than in recent years, an
  
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• City funds nonprofit to support childcare in Juneau schools

  16-07-2026 02:47 via ktoo.org
  
  The Harborview Elementary School playground on July 9, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  A Juneau nonprofit is looking for local childcare providers to offer after-school care at two elementary schools that lost the service in recent years. It’s part of an effort to stabilize childcare access for school-age children after the Juneau School District ended its program last year.
  Funding to get the effort underway came from the Juneau Assembly. In May, it approved awarding $270,000 to Southeas
  
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• Tongass Voices: Xeetli.éesh Lyle James on learning and teaching Indigenous languages

  16-07-2026 00:53 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A screenshot of Xeetli.éesh Lyle James speaking in a YouTube video titled “Strengthening our Community Lecture Series: Lyle James | Sealaska Heritage” (Courtesy Sealaska Heritage Institute)
  Xeetli.éesh Lyle James has been learning and teaching the Lingít language for more than two decades. His passion grew through attending classes and leading songs. 
  He lives in Juneau and has taught more than 1,000 students, emphasizing the importance of making mistakes and
  
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• Juneau police respond to submerged truck in Gastineau Channel

  16-07-2026 00:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Douglas Harbor on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Juneau Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating the person who submerged a truck in Gastineau Channel near Douglas Harbor early Wednesday morning. 
  According to the Juneau Police Department, at just before 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, police received a report that a maroon Chevrolet Silverado went into the water near Savikko Road in Douglas. When officers responded, the vehicle was submerged.&nb
  
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• Three cases of cyclosporiasis recorded in Alaska since May

  15-07-2026 22:55 via ktoo.org
  
  Shoppers grab produce at Super Bear IGA in August 2022. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Three cases of cyclosporiasis have been recorded since May in Alaska, but epidemiologists say it’s too early to say whether the cases are part of the national outbreak, mostly concentrated in the Midwest. Two of the Alaska cases involved International travel.
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have documented more than 1600 cases since May and tied 400 to the outbreak. The illness is caused by eating
  
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• Alaska university gets funding for critical minerals center

  15-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is seen on Sept. 18, 2022. The National Science Foundation announced the establishment of a new critical minerals program to be led by and located at the UAF facility. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  The National Science Foundation has selected the University of Alaska Fairbanks to be the site of a new critical minerals research program, making it one of 12 new technology innovation centers across the nation that received fed
  
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• 4 thorny questions in the ongoing Alaska LNG tax debate from Tuesday’s ‘Talk of Alaska’

  15-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Trans-Alaska Pipeline winds through the landscape, seen here at pipeline mile 709.7 along the Richardson Highway south of Copper Center, Alaska on August 13, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  As Alaska lawmakers approach the end of a second consecutive special session considering a bill that would offer tax relief to the Alaska LNG project, legislators are still deeply divided on the best way forward. Lawmakers have tentatively planned a vote on a final draft for Thursday, but a confere
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, July 14, 2026

  15-07-2026 03:06 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:A Juneau artist’s design will be printed on bear garbage cans downtown. Crystal Jackson’s painting of bears frolicking on a rainbow background is the winning artwork in a contest to decorate 44 new bear cans.
  A cruise ship dock and development project planned for downtown Juneau will be scaled down by more than half its original size but will cost an additional $100 million dollars.
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• New Alaska law will allow pharmacists to provide more healthcare

  15-07-2026 02:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Soren White working at the Harry Race Pharmacy in Sitka on July 10, 2026. (Katherine Rose/KCAW)
  Alaska pharmacists will soon be able to practice more of the healthcare that they learned in their education under a new state law taking effect in January. That could include medication management and testing and treating common ailments like strep throat, urinary tract infections and the flu.
  The change will be a big shift for Soren White, a pharmacist in Sitka who grew up working in his parents&rsq
  
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• Huna Totem plans to scale down cruise ship dock project as cost escalates by more than $100M

  15-07-2026 00:13 via ktoo.org
  
  This is the location of the Juneau waterfront area where Huna Totem Corp. plans to build a fifth cruise ship dock. Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (Photo by Elan Chappell/KTOO)
  A cruise ship dock and development project planned for downtown Juneau will be scaled down by more than half its original size but will cost an additional $100 million.
  That’s according to Susan Bell, Huna Totem Corp.’s vice president of strategic initiatives. She gave an overview of the planned changes to the Juneau
  
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• A new model could help predict rusting rivers, researchers say

  14-07-2026 21:23 via ktoo.org
  
  Rusting on a tributary of the Eli River, taken on Patrick Sullivan’s research trip in June. Sullivan said it shows iron throughout the aufeis and in the shrubs, which suggests that metals were being released throughout the winter. The iron in the shrubs was probably deposited when the aufeis was near its maximum extent. (Patrick Sullivan)
  Rivers across Alaska’s Arctic are turning orange and acidic as permafrost thaws, threatening subsistence resources that thousands of people rely on
  
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• To vote in Alaska’s primary elections, residents must register by July 19 — here’s how

  14-07-2026 21:20 via ktoo.org
  
  An early voting site is seen on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022 at the State Office Building in Juneau, Alaska. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  Alaska’s primary election just over a month away, and the deadline to register to vote in that election is Sunday July 19.
  Alaska’s primary election is Tuesday August 18, when voters will mark their ballots to choose among candidates for governor, legislators in the Alaska House and Senate, and representatives in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. A sample of
  
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• Newscast – Monday, July 13, 2026

  14-07-2026 03:14 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:Juneau’s new off-road vehicle park could partially open as soon as this September
  One of Juneau’s most dangerous intersections, near Fred Meyer, will get a traffic light thanks to a federal grant
  Sorely needed renovations at two affordable housing complexes in Juneau come with challenges for tenants
  A new study suggests having a dog could more than double the chance of a bear conflict
  
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• Juneau’s off-road vehicle park could partially open this September

  14-07-2026 01:12 via ktoo.org
  
  A switchback on one of the wide ORV trails in the new park. (Marc Wheeler/CBJ)
  Juneau’s new off-road vehicle park could open its first trail as soon as this September. That’s according to Marc Wheeler, director of Parks and Recreation for the City and Borough of Juneau. 
  At a community meeting in the Mendenhall Valley Public Library on Thursday [July 9], he presented an update on the ORV park going in at mile 35 of Glacier Highway, near Bridget Cove. 
  “At this point,
  
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• Juneau residents temporarily relocated during affordable housing renovations

  14-07-2026 01:11 via ktoo.org
  
  A worker stands outside a Coho Parks Apartment unit with machinery in Juneau on July 7, 2026. (Jamie Diep/KTOO)
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  Renovations are underway for two affordable housing complexes in Juneau. Residents say the upgrades are sorely needed but the transition has been challenging. 
  Annett Ritter has lived in the Coho Park Apartments since 2021. The Section 8 affordable housing complex, which is federally subsidized, i
  
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• Juneau secures $12.1M federal grant for Fred Meyer intersection improvements

  13-07-2026 23:39 via ktoo.org
  
  Traffic traffic zooms down Egan Drive where it intersects with Yandukin Drive in Juneau on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $12.1 million to Juneau last week to fund safety improvements at one of Juneau’s most dangerous intersections. 
  The funding is for the intersection at Yandukin Drive and Egan Drive, near the Fred Meyer grocery store. According to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, betw
  
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• 15 Alaskans and businesses charged with $1.8M in Medicaid fraud

  13-07-2026 21:15 via ktoo.org
  
  Pedestrians pass the Nesbett Courthouse, located in downtown Anchorage on August 31, 2022. (Valerie Kern/Alaska Public Media)
  State investigators have accused 15 Alaskans and businesses of filing more than $1.8 million in fraudulent Medicaid claims in five separate cases.
  The criminal cases filed in June are part of a broader nationwide effort to crack down on fraud in the jointly funded federal and state program, state officials said.
  The defendants include managers and proprietors of Anchorage
  
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• Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy sets state record for most vetoes in a single Legislature

  13-07-2026 20:26 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy talks to reporters during a news conference on Monday, May 19, 2025. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  Amid a series of disagreements with lawmakers in the state House and Senate, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has set a record for the most vetoes by an Alaska governor during a single two-year Legislature.
  Through Friday morning, Dunleavy had vetoed 29 of the 115 bills passed by the 34th Alaska Legislature.
  The previous record, 25 vetoes, was held by Gov. Tony Knowles in
  
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• Newscast – Friday, July 10, 2026

  11-07-2026 03:03 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:Defenders of ranked choice voting and the open primary filed complaints to the Alaska Public Offices Commissions against a campaign supporting a measure to repeal both things.
  A Juneau resident shot and wounded a yearling black bear that was rummaging through trash downtown on Thursday morning.
  Alaska’s three major cities continue to have higher living costs than most of the nation’s urban are
  
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• Patrick Bringley ‘All the Beauty in the World’ talk and book signing | Juneau Community Foundation Hope/CBJ Grant

  11-07-2026 02:44 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Juneau Afternoon – Recorded live on Friday, July 10
  Juneau Afternoon featuring Patrick Bringley’s author talk for “All the Beauty in the World” with City Museum, Juneau Community Foundation Hope/CBJ Awards, Marimba workshop and public performance at Perseverance Theatre on Sunday, July 12.
  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 t
  
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• Yearling bear euthanized after being shot out of a tree in downtown Juneau

  11-07-2026 02:30 via ktoo.org
  
  A second yearling black bear, which was traveling with the bear that got shot, was seen in the area off of Village St. the next day, on July 10, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  A Juneau resident shot and wounded a yearling black bear that had been rummaging through trash downtown on Thursday morning. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game euthanized the bear soon after. The unknown resident who shot it could face criminal charges.
  Heather Hintze, a Juneau resident, witnessed the shooting just
  
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• 4 Alaska communities could get millions in FEMA disaster funding

  10-07-2026 23:53 via ktoo.org
  
  Chilkat Indian Village environmental staff stand on the 23 mile slide area during a site visit in 2025. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS)
  Four communities across Alaska could soon receive nearly $7 million in federal funding to better prepare for natural disasters.
  The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced late last month that it has set aside disaster-related funding for Juneau, the Bering Sea community of St. Paul, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Chilkat Indian Village, near Haines.
  The
  
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• Group seeking to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting hit with campaign finance complaints

  10-07-2026 23:44 via ktoo.org
  
  A sample ballot from Alaska’s first ranked choice election, in 2022. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  Defenders of Alaska’s open primary and ranked choice ballot say the campaign to repeal the system is violating campaign finance and disclosure laws.
  That might sound familiar: A different repeal campaign, Alaskans for Honest Elections, was fined for multiple campaign finance violations in 2024.
  A fresh repeal measure will be on the November 2026 general election ballot, and again the
  
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