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• Search underway for missing Angoon fisherman

  28-10-2026 20:48 via KTOO
  Angoon on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  This is a developing story. 
  A community-wide search and rescue is underway in Angoon for a man who hasn’t been seen since he left to go fishing Tuesday morning. 
  Angoon is a Southeast Alaska community on Admiralty Island near Juneau. According to Alaska State Troopers, 35-year-old Roger Williams, Jr. was reportedly last known to be taking his red and silver 16-foot Lund boat from the Angoon boat harbor to the ferry terminal to
  
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• Alaska elects Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins governor

  14-11-2026 07:39 via KTOO
  Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins speaks to a reporter on Election Day, Nov. 3, outside a polling site at the University of Alaska Anchorage. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state representative from the small island community of Sitka, won the race for Alaska governor, according to a race call by the Associated Press.
  At 37, he’ll be the youngest governor in state history.
  Kreiss-Tomkins will replace outgoing Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a term-limited Republican who
  
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• Peltola leads in U.S. Senate race, nearing 50% mark with almost all ballots counted

  14-11-2026 07:36 via KTOO
  This combination of photos shows Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, in Anchorage, left, and Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan on Monday, Nov. 2, 2026, in Soldotna. (Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)
  Former Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola widened her lead again Friday, though she still has less than 50% of first-choice votes. If that remains so, the race will likely be decided by ranked choice tabulation.
  Friday’s update added roughly 22,500 ballots to the total.
  
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• Lingít activists protest Cascade Point Ferry Terminal to defend sacred burial sites

  14-11-2026 03:21 via KTOO
  Seikoonie Fran Houston paints black tears on Keeyées Tláa Moriah Hayes’ cheeks at the Cascade Point protest on Nov. 13, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
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  More than 150 people gathered at Juneau’s Dimond Courthouse Plaza across from the Capitol Friday to speak out against the state’s proposed Cascade Point Ferry Terminal. 
  That’s after the state of Alaska authorized a construction contract
  
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• Newscast: Friday, Nov. 13, 2026

  14-11-2026 03:07 via KTOO
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  In this newscast:The Juneau Assembly will decide on Monday whether to approve an ordinance regulating electric motorcycles on Juneau’s streets, parks and trails.
  A nationwide ground stop causing air travel delays on Friday does not appear to be affecting in-state flights for Juneau travelers.
  For C. Scott Fry, music was a lifelong passion.
  Prince of Wales Island first responders and Alaska State Troopers are searching f
  
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• ‘Girl Yeti and a Spaceship’ film premiere | Juneau Legacy Challenge | Tidal Echoes seeks submissions | Multicultural Night at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé

  14-11-2026 02:10 via KTOO
  Juneau Afternoon recorded live on Friday, November 13, 2026
  The latest film from Anton Doiron, “Girl Yeti and a Spaceship,’ premieres Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the Gold Town Theater. Anton and cast share details on making this Juneau indie.The Juneau Community Foundation shares details about Juneau Legacy Challenge, National Philanthropy Day/Week, and Feeding Juneau Kids.Tidal Echoes, the literary and art journal from UAS, is seeking submissions before
  
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• Some flights out of Juneau delayed due to nationwide FAA grounding

  14-11-2026 01:04 via KTOO
  People wait for their baggage after their flight into Juneau International Airport just after the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A nationwide ground stop causing air travel delays on Friday does not appear to be affecting in-state flights for Juneau travelers.
  The Federal Aviation Administration issued the ground stop shortly after noon Alaska time for “extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.” Federal officials blam
  
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• Some flights out of Juneau delayed amid nationwide FAA grounding

  14-11-2026 01:04 via KTOO
  People wait for their baggage after their flight into Juneau International Airport just after the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday, Nov. 13, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Update, 4:45 p.m.: 
  The FAA says all air travel can resume as normal.
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  A nationwide ground stop causing air travel delays on Friday does not appear to be affecting in-state flights for Juneau travelers.
  The Federal Aviation Administration issued the ground stop shortly after noon Alaska time
  
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• Donations and volunteers needed for St. Vincent de Paul’s Thanksgiving Basket program

  14-11-2026 00:35 via KTOO
  St. Vincent de Paul volunteers Caroline Allen and Chris Gianotti – coordinators of the Thanksgiving Basket program (photo by Mike Lane / KTOO)
  A Thanksgiving meal can mean a lot more than what’s on the table. It’s about bringing friends and family together.St. Vincent de Paul is preparing its annual Thanksgiving food baskets. But  organizers need a little help from the community, both in donations and volunteers. KTOO’s Mike Lane visited with St. Vincent de Paul’s Chris Gianotti and C
  
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• Trump administration plan could open 28 million acres of Alaska land to development

  13-11-2026 23:09 via KTOO
  Some of the land that could lose its D-1 status touches the upper Ferebee, Chilkoot and Chilkat rivers. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS)
  The Trump administration is preparing to lift a classification on 28 million acres of federal land in Alaska that has long prevented it from being developed or transferred to the state or Alaska Native corporations.
  Removing so-called D-1 Withdrawals would open new land for resource extraction and other uses, in the Chilkat Valley, Southcentral, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
  
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• FAA lifts the nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports

  13-11-2026 23:02 via KTOO
  The Juneau International Airport in April 2023. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The nationwide ground stop that paralyzed the U.S. aviation system on Friday has ended, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
  The rare stop, which lasted about four hours on Friday, ground all U.S. airports following a “communication issue,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said earlier Friday.
  Friday afternoon, the FAA said in a post on X that there has been a “temporary telecommunications outage
  
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• FAA issues nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports

  13-11-2026 23:02 via KTOO
  The Juneau International Airport in April 2023. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a “communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers,” according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
  Friday afternoon, Duffy said: “FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them.”
  This is a developing story.
  
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• Juneau Assembly to vote on city-wide e-motorcycle regulations on Monday

  13-11-2026 16:00 via KTOO
  People ride electric motorcycles down Basin Road on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  The Juneau Assembly will decide on Monday whether to approve an ordinance regulating electric motorcycles on Juneau’s streets, parks, and trails. 
  If approved, the ordinance would mean that more classes of e-bikes and electric motorcycles would be prohibited on city bike paths, shared-use pathways, sidewalks, and trails in Juneau. It would also mean that riders on public roads would need a
  
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• JKT tops 50% in Alaska governor’s race as Peltola extends Senate lead

  13-11-2026 07:14 via KTOO
  Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins at his election party on Nov. 3, 2026. (Wesley Early | Alaska Public Media)
  Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, the leading candidate for governor, just barely crested the important 50% mark in the latest election results the Alaska Division of Elections released Thursday.
  His nearest challenger, Republican business owner Bernadette Wilson, has 28.7%.
  The results Thursday added 5,723 early, absentee and questioned ballots to the total, primarily from Southeast. The Associa
  
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• JKT declares victory after topping 50% in Alaska governor’s race as Peltola extends Senate lead

  13-11-2026 07:14 via KTOO
  Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins at his election party on Nov. 3, 2026. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, the leading candidate for governor, just barely crested the important 50% mark in the latest election results the Alaska Division of Elections released Thursday.
  His nearest challenger, Republican business owner Bernadette Wilson, has 28.7%.
  Kreiss-Tomkins declared victory in a news release Friday morning after CNN projected he would win. His campaign said the rema
  
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• Art songs and opera from the Philippines in ‘Singing the Archipelago’ | Evening at Egan lecture on Indigenous-Settler Coalitions in Desert Southwest

  13-11-2026 06:10 via KTOO
  Juneau Afternoon recorded on Thursday, November 12, 2026
  UAS Evening at Egan talk by Taylor Rose, entitled “Unlikely Alliances? Oral Histories of Indigenous-Settler Coalitions for Land in the Desert Southwest.” Public lecture to be held at UAS Egan Library on Friday, 11/13 at 7 p.m.“Singing the Archipelago”– Art songs and opera from the Philippines presented by Orpheus Project with Tess Altiveros, Jose Rubio, Elisabeth Ellis, and the Icefield Quartet. Friday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. & S
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026

  13-11-2026 02:59 via KTOO
  
  
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  In this newscast: Alaska’s U.S. Senate race tightened slightly in the last batch of election results released yesterday,
  A group of state legislators tasked with charting the future of public school funding in Alaska is calling for further study of the subject,
  Officials with the University of Alaska report more than $86 million in federal grants that were frozen or delayed by the Trump administration have been restore
  
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• In Alaska’s legislative elections, a handful of races remain undecided nail-biters

  13-11-2026 02:00 via KTOO
  People wait in line to vote on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026 at Scenic Park Elementary School in East Anchorage. (Photo by Loren Holmes/Alaska Beacon)
  In the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, candidates in two different Alaska House of Representatives elections are separated by five votes, according to preliminary, partial ranked choice runoff data published by the Alaska Division of Elections on Wednesday night.
  The winners of those two races are not expected to change the balance of power in th
  
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• Weeks before Alaska gets a new governor, its economic development arm goes on a spending spree

  12-11-2026 23:15 via KTOO
  The Anchorage headquarters of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, shares space with a sister agency, the Alaska Energy Authority. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz)
  A $25 million investment in a nuclear energy startup. Another $36 million for a controversial mining road. And up to $75 million for a new state-owned company promoting broadband.
  Those are among the multi-million-dollar decisions that GOP Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s appointees and state officials have made as part of a spendi
  
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• Buddy Bendixen: The last of Alaska’s Territorial Guard

  12-11-2026 20:25 via KTOO
  Buddy Bendixen at his home in King Cove, August 2022. (Courtesy Aleut Corporation)
  On Veterans Day, Alaska honors veterans from across the generations. But for the first time this year, none will come from the ranks of the Alaska Territorial Guard. Buddy Bendixen died on Oct. 26 at his home in King Cove, a small community on the Alaska Peninsula. He was 101 and the last known member of the ATG. His passing marks the final chapter in the story of the men and women who defended Alaska during World
  
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• Museum swap bring bones of hero dog back to Alaska

  12-11-2026 18:21 via KTOO
  A mount of Togo, the lead dog in Leonhard Seppala’s team that delivered life-saving medicine to Nome in the 1925 Serum Run, is seen on display behind plexiglass at the Iditarod Trail Committee headquarters in Wasilla on Feb. 25, 2022. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  More than 100 years after he ran the longest stretches in a heroic dogsled mission to bring lifesaving medicine to snowbound Nome, Togo has returned to Alaska.
  Or, to be more precise, Togo’s bones have returned. The skeleton of the
  
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• Alaska’s U.S. Senate, governor’s races tighten with new ballot count

  12-11-2026 17:43 via KTOO
  Election day at the Mendenhall Valley Public Library in Juneau, Alaska on Nov. 3, 2026. (Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  Alaska’s U.S. Senate race tightened slightly in the latest batch of election results released Wednesday.
  Democrat Mary Peltola now has 48.7% of the vote to Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s 47.1%. Her lead narrowed from 4,250 votes Tuesday to 3,975 on Wednesday. She also fell below an important threshold: Her lead is less than the 4,100 votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.
  
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• Alaskans have a lot of animals, but not nearly enough vets

  11-11-2026 23:15 via KTOO
  Malisa Levenson rides her horse Ellie May in late August. With no permanent horse vet in Kodiak, Levenson says keeping her horses healthy can be a struggle. (Katherine Irving/KMXT)
  In addition to her human kids, Kodiak resident Malisa Levenson said she’s mom to three cats, three dogs, three horses and about forty chickens. The dogs, cats and chickens are pretty low maintenance, mostly.
  “Except one of them happened to steal a little jar of Nutella,” she said. “I’m like, ‘how did you g
  
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• Peltola and JKT strengthen leads in latest Alaska election results

  11-11-2026 17:06 via KTOO
  Mary Peltola and Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins. (Alaska Public Media and KCAW)
  Democrat Mary Peltola increased her lead over Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan again Tuesday, as election officials counted more than 24,000 additional votes. Peltola now leads 49% to 47.2% in one of the nation’s last undecided U.S. Senate contests.
  Meanwhile, Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins continues to hold a large lead in the race for governor. He now has 49.9% of the first-choice vote in the four-way race against three
  
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• U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Storis visits Juneau, captain reflects on Arctic security voyage

  11-11-2026 03:10 via KTOO
  USCGC Storis travels up Gastineau Channel to port in Juneau on Nov. 7, 2026. (Photo by Mikko Wilson/KTOO)
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  After a 4.5-month deployment in the Arctic, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Storis visited its future homeport of Juneau this week. At a press meeting aboard the ship in Juneau on Tuesday, Captain Corey Kerns said the mission’s purpose was to enforce U.S. sovereignty in Arctic waters.
  “We have some s
  
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• Alaska legislators tasked with assessing education funding call for new study in draft report

  11-11-2026 02:21 via KTOO
  School buses sit in a lot in Bethel. (Katie Basile/KYUK)
  A group of state legislators tasked with charting the future of public school funding in Alaska is calling for further study of the subject.
  The Legislature’s Task Force on Education Funding was set up as part of a deal to win Republican support for a school funding boost lawmakers overcame a veto to pass last year. The group put out the first public draft Monday of a nine-page document outlining its recommendations.
  For a report on fund
  
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• University of Alaska reports $86.2M in frozen federal grants restored

  10-11-2026 23:07 via KTOO
  A sign, seen July 24, 2026, celebrates the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ status as a leader in Arctic research. Behind the sign are buildings that house UAF’s Geophysical Institute and International Arctic Research Center. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  Officials with the University of Alaska report more than $86 million in federal grants that were frozen or delayed by the Trump administration have been restored.
  The update was provided to the University of Alaska Board of Regents at their q
  
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• Juneau man detained by immigration officials in Anchorage

  10-11-2026 22:17 via KTOO
  The entrance to the Anchorage Correctional Complex is seen on Aug. 29, 2022. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  A Juneau man has been detained by federal immigration officials in Anchorage. Cruz Vargas-Enriques was taken into custody on Oct. 28, according to the Alaska Department of Corrections. He was transferred out of Alaska on Nov. 7.
  Vargas-Enriques is 42 and has children in Juneau schools. Shawn Arnold, superintendent of the Juneau School District, says the district is aware of the situation. 
  
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• Observing Veterans Day in Juneau

  10-11-2026 21:47 via KTOO
  Southeast Alaska Native Veterans carry flags to the stage at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall on Veterans Day in 2022. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Wednesday is Veterans Day and there are several ceremonies honoring veterans in Juneau. 
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and Southeast Alaska Native Veterans will host their annual Veterans Day ceremony and luncheon on Wednesday starting at 11 a.m. This year’s event will take place at the Tlingit & Haida Commun
  
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• How to observe Veterans Day in Juneau

  10-11-2026 21:47 via KTOO
  Southeast Alaska Native Veterans carry flags to the stage at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall on Veterans Day in 2022. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Wednesday is Veterans Day and there are several ceremonies honoring veterans in Juneau. 
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and Southeast Alaska Native Veterans will host their annual Veterans Day ceremony and luncheon on Wednesday starting at 11 a.m. This year’s event will take place at the Tlingit & Haida Commun
  
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