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• The Hungry Chum: Kava’s is more than pancakes, it’s aloha

  28-10-2016 07:35
  
  The red vinyl covering the seat of the booth groaned as I reached for my yellow mug of diner coffee. Suddenly, my weekend morning (OK, early afternoon) was interrupted by a wave of recollection: driving in a white Jeep on a road that hugged the ocean, windows down and music up.
  Much to the dismay of my mother, I have now lived in both of the outlying states in the U.S.: Hawaii and Alaska. As a senior in high school, my rural upbringing and craving for adventure spurred my decision to apply to a
  
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• North Slope village runs out of gasoline at height of hunting season

  28-08-2026 21:59 via ktoo.org
  Wainwright on June 2, 2018. (Photo from Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs)
  The North Slope village of Wainwright has run out of gasoline after a delivery disruption last week, officials with the local Native corporation said. An emergency fuel delivery was expected by late Thursday.
  A number of Wainwright residents, including Michael Agnasagga, have posted on social media that the shortage was preventing them from hunting during the peak season.
  “None of us can go hunt,&rd
  
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• Sullivan and Peltola, lead candidates in Alaska U.S. Senate race, trade barbs at industry forum

  28-08-2026 21:51 via ktoo.org
  Sen. Dan Sullivan and former Congresswoman Mary Peltola vied for industry support Aug. 27, 2026 at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association conference in Anchorage. (Photo by James Daggett/Alaska Public Media)
  A pattern emerged when the two leading candidates for U.S. Senate vied for industry support Thursday at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association’s annual conference in Anchorage.
  Again and again, Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan tied former Congresswoman Mary Peltola to her fellow Democrats in the
  
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• Former Juneau principal pleads no contest to assault charge

  28-08-2026 03:15 via ktoo.org
  The Dzantik’i Heeni campus in Lemon Creek on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A former Juneau principal pleaded no contest to an assault charge and was sentenced to 60 days in prison on Tuesday. He physically assaulted a student who was waiting outside the school for his mom to pick him up.
  In March, John Paul tackled and pinned down a twelve-year-old child while he was the principal of Juneau’s Montessori Borealis and Yaaḵoosgé Daakahídi Hig
  
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• Teri Tibbett 50-year career retrospective concert | Juneau Chamber | UAS Chancellor Dr. Aparna Palmer

  28-08-2026 02:45 via ktoo.org
  Juneau Afternoon recorded live on Thursday, August 27, 2026
  Juneau Afternoon featuring musician Teri Tibbett celebrating 50 years of music in Alaska with a special retrospective concert, plus Juneau Chamber of Commerce events and updates, and UAS Chancellor Dr. Aparna Palmer on new classes, faculty, and more.
  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 th
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026

  28-08-2026 02:39 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright is touring Alaska this week
  Four people died in a plan crash in the Kenai Peninsula community of Seldovia on Wednesday
  A group of Juneau volunteers has been restoring cemeteries on Douglas Island for five years
  State and federal officials are investigating a large oily sheen on the west side of Cook Inlet
  
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• Douglas Lawson Creek Cemeteries Project celebrates five years of work | Corin & Friends Comedy Show returns for second year at Goldtown

  27-08-2026 23:04 via ktoo.org
  Juneau Afternoon recorded live on Wednesday, August 26, 2026The Douglas Lawson Creek Cemeteries Restoration Project
  Corin & Friends Comedy Show
  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 OneSpotifyStitcherRSS
  Juneau Afternoon is a production of the KTOO Arts and C
  
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• Troopers identify pilot and 3 passengers killed in Seldovia plane crash

  27-08-2026 21:27 via ktoo.org
  The Seldovia Slough on June 10, 2025. (Photo by Ashlyn O’Hara/KDLL)
  Four people died in a plane crash in the Kenai Peninsula community of Seldovia Wednesday, state troopers say.
  Troopers were alerted to the crash at around 1:18 p.m., according to a dispatch. A Piper PA-24 was heading to Seldovia from Merrill Field in Anchorage when it crashed and sank in the Seldovia Slough, troopers said.
  Officials said troopers were able to recover the victims’ bodies from the wreckage at abo
  
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• In third place, U.S. Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan says he doesn’t plan to withdraw

  27-08-2026 21:19 via ktoo.org
  Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan in his home workshop on July 20, 2026. (Photo by Taylor Heckart/KFSK)
  Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg said he’s staying in the race for U.S. Senate, for now.
  The retired teacher faced off against Alaska’s incumbent Republican senator with the same name and party affiliation in last Tuesday’s primary election.
  “I don’t have any plans on withdrawing at the moment,” Sullivan said during a phone call with KFSK. “But I still do
  
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• Despite calls to change Alaska cannabis taxes, lawmakers have been slow to act

  27-08-2026 21:05 via ktoo.org
  Gracie Crowe prunes marijuana plants before they are hung to dry at Alaska GreenWorks in Anchorage Aug. 12, 2026. (Photo by James Daggett/Alaska Public Media)
  Many Alaska cannabis industry leaders say the way the state taxes them is broken, leading to lower revenue for the state and increased participation in the black market.
  Since Alaskans voted to legalize recreational cannabis in 2015, the state has imposed an excise tax on each ounce growers sell to retailers and manufacturers. Ultimately,
  
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• Volunteers mark 5 years of cleaning Douglas cemeteries

  27-08-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  S’eiltin Jamiann Hasselquist stands next to a headstone she and others clean in the Lawson Creek cemeteries on Douglas Island on August 25, 2026. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  Gleaming headstones stick out of the ground, some at an angle as S’eiltin Jamiann Hasselquist walked through a graveyard on a hill in Douglas. 
  Some have ornate designs with a Bible, a bear, or the pearly gates, while others are simple: just a name, and years of a life lived. Many of those lives were shor
  
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• The Mukluk Fire has destroyed 44 homes in Tok

  27-08-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  A charred oil tank left over from a house that burned in the Mukluk Fire. (Shelby Herbert/KUAC)
  State fire officials say the Mukluk Fire has destroyed 44 homes in Tok, more than double last week’s early estimate.
  Sam Harrel, a spokesperson for the Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection, described the loss of so many homes as a tragedy for the town, which has just 1,600 residents.
  “It’s the fire nobody wants to have start in a populated area,” Harrell said. &ldqu
  
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• More out-of-state students opt for University of Alaska Southeast, with new in-state tuition rate

  27-08-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  New students at the University of Alaska Southeast attend orientation at the Egan Library on the Juneau campus on Aug. 21, 2026. (Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)
  Under a driving Juneau rain, dozens of new students at the University of Alaska Southeast gathered Friday for orientation and to kick off the fall semester. This year, the public university saw a boost in enrollment of out-of-state students, which officials and students say is largely due to a new policy eliminating the non-resident tuiti
  
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• Whittier gas restored after Enstar secures temporary LNG supply

  27-08-2026 03:00 via ktoo.org
  The Begich Towers resident apartment building in Whittier. (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media)
  Whittier residents now have access to natural gas after a pipeline failure forced the local utility to temporarily shut off service.
  A boater on the Twentymile River smelled gas Aug. 9 near an underwater section of pipeline, according to Enstar Natural Gas Company. Enstar said about a week later that the pipeline had deteriorated to the point that the gas flow to Whittier, a community of about 250 peop
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, August 26, 2026

  27-08-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
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  In this newscast:The University of Alaska Southeast is seeing a boost in enrollment of out-of-state students,
  A niche subset of scientists has started exploring a new and controversial question: whether its possible to save glaciers by engineering them,
  Tongass Voices: Holly Huber on competing for Miss USA
  
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• Primary standings largely unchanged as Alaska elections officials update ballot count

  27-08-2026 00:34 via ktoo.org
  Nome’s 2026 primary election polling location at Old St. Joe’s Church on Aug. 18, 2026. (Margaret Sutherland/KNOM)
  The standings in the races for governor and U.S. Congress were largely unchanged after Alaska elections officials released an updated count of ballots Wednesday morning.
  The top four vote-getters in the primary will advance to the ranked choice general election in November. For now, the top four in the race for governor are:Democratic former state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-T
  
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• State, Coast Guard investigating oily sheen in Western Cook Inlet

  27-08-2026 00:31 via ktoo.org
  The view across Cook Inlet from Nikiski. (Riley Board/KDLL)
  State officials, the U.S. Coast Guard and one of Alaska’s leading oil and gas producers are investigating the cause and source of a large oily sheen on the west side of Cook Inlet. A pilot flying over the area Monday afternoon reported the sheen to the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the sheen is near a former oil platform that’s been out of service f
  
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• Tongass Voices: Holly Huber on competing for Miss USA

  26-08-2026 21:35 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Miss Alaska USA 2026 Holly Huber poses outside KTOO. She soon traveled to Miami to compete in the Miss USA pagaent. August 7, 2026. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond.
  Holly Huber is the first Miss Alaska USA from Juneau. After being crowned this summer, she’s currently competing on a national stage in Miami. The Miss USA competition is running this week, and Mis
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, August 25, 2026

  26-08-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
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  In this newscast:A Superior Court judge heard oral arguments this morning over the legality of the city’s planned redevelopment of Juneau’s Telephone Hill,
  A former Juneau fire captain has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for assaulting his stepdaughter, and KTOO examines how the city dealt with having a public safety employee charged for child assault,
  Around 250 U.S. Coast Guard crew members stati
  
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• Former Juneau fire captain convicted of assault resigned months after charges were filed

  26-08-2026 02:21 via ktoo.org
  A Capital City Fire/Rescue truck. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A former Juneau fire captain has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for physically assaulting his stepdaughter. 
  The State of Alaska filed criminal charges against Brent Clancy in June of last year. But Clancy was still employed with the city’s fire department for two more months — until the end of August. The city’s Human Resources and Risk Management Director Dallas Hargrave said Clancy was not ac
  
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• Judge hears arguments on legality of Juneau’s Telephone Hill demolition plan

  26-08-2026 02:20 via ktoo.org
  Attorney Fred Triem gives an oral argument for a civil lawsuit regarding the Telephone Hill neighborhood in downtown Juneau on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A Superior Court judge heard oral arguments on Tuesday morning for a civil lawsuit about the legality of the city’s planned redevelopment of the downtown Telephone Hill neighborhood.
  The lawsuit pits former tenants of the neighborhood against the City and Borough of Juneau. The former tenants filed the joint ci
  
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• Military identifies 3 victims of deadly Southwest Alaska plane crash

  26-08-2026 00:19 via ktoo.org
  (From left) Leah Borsich, Sabrina Hansen and Hayden Scalis. (Photos provided by Maggie Endres, Casey Cash and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.)
  The U.S. military has identified some of the victims of the plane crash that killed eight people in Southwest Alaska last week.
  A chartered Cessna 441 Conquest crashed on Thursday at a military radar site on Cape Newenham, about 450 miles west of Anchorage. Conditions in the area were foggy with low visibility that morning, according to the National We
  
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• Coast Guard holds “Buoy Tender Olympics” in Juneau

  26-08-2026 00:18 via ktoo.org
  Coast Guard crews compete in a Buoy Tender Olympics game called the “heat and beat” on Aug. 19, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
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  Around 250 U.S. Coast Guard crew members stationed across Alaska and the Pacific Northwest spent last week in Juneau to train and compete in games called the Buoy Tender Olympics on Wednesday. 
  On the cutter Fir, anchored at the Coast Guard dock downtown, t
  
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• 4 takeaways from Alaska’s primary election

  25-08-2026 20:06 via ktoo.org
  An Alaskan votes in the primary election at the State Office Building in Juneau on Aug. 18, 2026. (Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  Two Democrats and two Republicans are poised to face off this November in the race for governor after primary voting wrapped up on Tuesday. And it looks like there’ll be two Dan Sullivans and a Mary Peltola in the race for U.S. Senate.
  But the dust is still settling. Though all but three of Alaska’s 403 precincts had reported results by Thursday evening, thousands of e
  
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• Gasoline hits $26 per gallon in the northwest Alaska village of Shungnak

  25-08-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  Glenda Douglas of Shungnak, in the Northwest Arctic Borough, shared this photo on social media of a gasoline purchase she made on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (Glenda Douglas photo)
  It’s not a typo. The price of a gallon of gasoline in the northwest Alaska village of Shungnak was $26.82 on Friday, local residents and regional officials said, likely giving the community the dubious honor of having the most expensive gasoline in the United States.
  “It is very much real,” said Glenda Do
  
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• Newscast – Monday, August 24, 2026

  25-08-2026 02:59 via ktoo.org
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  In this newscast:The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to end Juneau’s annual glacial lake outburst flood before the flood of 2030,
  The state approved the first segment of a new access road for the controversial New Amalga gold mine in Juneau,
  The Alaska Marine Highway System will finally receive $410 million in federal grant money,
  Federal investigators say a charter plane crashed into a remote area of Southwest A
  
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• Army Corps plans to construct glacial outburst flood solution before Juneau’s 2030 flood

  25-08-2026 01:51 via ktoo.org
  A tree floats down the Mendenhall River as the flood crests on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon)
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gathered a group of potential industry partners in Juneau on Aug. 21 to discuss how they might drain Suicide Basin — the glacial lake that produces Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood. 
  In a recording of the ‘Industry Day’ meeting obtained by Alaska Beacon reporter James Brooks, Army Corps officials laid ou
  
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• Is a U.S. Department of Justice investigation about to disrupt Alaska’s U.S. Senate race?

  24-08-2026 20:04 via ktoo.org
  Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, talks to staffers on the morning of Aug. 18, 2026, at the intersection of the Seward Highway and Northern Lights Boulevard. The Midtown Anchorage intersection is a favored spot for candidate sign-waving, and Sullivan, who is running for re-election, was there with U.S. Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska, also running for re-election. (Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
  On Alaska’s primary election day, NBC News — citing unidentified sources — reported that the U.
  
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• NTSB says Security Aviation plane was on its 2nd landing attempt when it crashed, killing 8

  24-08-2026 19:50 via ktoo.org
  The Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site, located roughly 360 miles west of Anchorage, is seen in 2014. (NOAA Alaska ShoreZone)
  A charter plane was on its second attempt at landing when it crashed at a military radar site in a remote area of Southwest Alaska on Thursday, Aug, 20, killing all eight people on board.
  National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Alaska Region Chief Clint Johnson confirmed the Cessna 441 Conquest was owned and operated by Anchorage-based Security Aviation.
  Johnson als
  
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• A Juneau landmark that burned down in June has been a decades-long, international mystery to one man

  24-08-2026 15:01 via ktoo.org
  One of the remains of Pederson’s dairy in the Mendenhall Valley still stands in view of Glacier Highway. This is not the one featured in the Microsoft background, but near it. April 11, 2023. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  A Juneau landmark burned down earlier this summer. It was beloved by many in town and, unbeknownst to some, around the world – thanks to a visitor who took a photo of it nearly 30 years ago. And for almost as long, it’s been a mystery for one man thousands of
  
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