Juneau Afternoon episode for Wednesday, November 26, 2025: Juneau’s annual Thanksgiving tradition, The Public Market, features demonstrations from Capital City Fire and Rescue and new vendors such as Sweet Spot [...]
Trees on Douglas Island on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Some Southeast residents put up Christmas decorations over Thanksgiving weekend. The centerpiece, of course, is the tree. [...]
Listen here: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/20251126-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The comment period for the first phase of construction of a new ferry terminal north of Juneau ends this Friday. For the first time, [...]
Vera Starbard poses in a KTOO studio in Juneau on Nov. 24, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Listen here: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/26VeraMolly.wav Lingít and Dena’ina writer and playwright Vera Starbard recently clinched [...]
Dorene Lorenz stands inside the Jesse Lee Home in Seward in 2018. (Casey Grove/Alaska Public Media) Alaska State Commission for Human Rights chair Dorene Lorenz sued blogger Jeff Landfield of [...]
The U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers Polar Star (at background), Healy (at left) and Storis (at foreground) are seen together at Coast Guard Base Seattle on Oct. 26, 2025, marking the [...]
Juneau Afternoon episode for Thursday, November 20, 2025: Tidal Echoes, the literary and arts journal published by the University of Alaska Southeast, is seeking submissions for the 2026 edition. The [...]
Juneau Afternoon episode for Friday, November 21, 2025: Audio Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id4OeYbRBx4 Video Livestream Bostin Christopher hosts the conversation. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3:00 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK with [...]
A March Master vehicle drives off-road in a field. (Coast Machinery LLC) Earlier this week, the Juneau Assembly approved spending $320,200 in mostly federal grant funding to purchase an amphibious [...]
Fresh produce is seen at the Alaska Commercial Company grocery store in Bethel on Oct 15, 2025. (Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon) Alaskans who qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program received [...]
Child care workers interact with infants at Gold Creek Child Development Center in Juneau on May 11, 2018. State rules require certain square footage and staffing levels, which limit this [...]
Signs for voting are posted outside the Mendenhall Valley Library on Election Day on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) The Juneau Assembly officially killed a proposal to [...]
The village of Kwigillingok, Alaska is seen in October. The area was hit by the remnants of Typhoon Halong earlier in the month, which caused major damage to homes and [...]
Juneau Afternoon episode for Friday, November 14, 2025: Juneau Community Foundation‘s Amy Skilbred on Alaska Philanthropy Day, giving deadlines, and updates on the Feeding Juneau Kids program Juneau Salvation Army [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/20251114-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly is slated to decide on Monday night whether Juneau should adopt a ranked choice voting system for municipal elections beginning next year. The [...]
Brant fly over the water on Sept. 28, 2016, at Izembek Lagoon in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge supports the entire Pacific population of black brant, a species of [...]
A brown bear stands in water in Katmai National Park on Sept. 27, 2022. A new lawsuit has targeted a revived predator control program that aims to boost Mulchatna caribou [...]
U.S. Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook aviators, assigned to the 207th Aviation Troop Command, Alaska Army National Guard, transport Alaska Organized Militia members and supplies to Kwigillingok, Alaska, Nov. 6, [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/20251110-News-Updat.mp3 In this newscast: Tomorrow is Veterans Day and there are several ceremonies honoring veterans in Juneau, Juneau’s avalanche forecasters are gearing up for winter, The state of Alaska is [...]
Commonly known date rape drugs are GHB and Rohyprol, or “roofies,” which are tasteless and odorless. But any kind of sedative can be used, like muscle relaxants, sleeping aids and [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/20251107-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The delay in SNAP benefit payments has driven Juneau residents to worry that their next meal isn’t guaranteed, and local organizations are stepping up their efforts [...]
The University of Alaska Southeast campus in Juneau on Monday, March. 4, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) Listen here: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/07UATuition.wav The University of Alaska will increase tuition for the entire system for [...]
Alaska Republican U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan. (Alaska Beacon file photos) Alaska’s two U.S. senators split on a vote that would have allowed the U.S. Senate to take [...]
Liza Sanden spent the first weeks of the government shutdown jarring jam and freezing homegrown kale at her Anchorage home. Then anxiety set in. She’s taken up substitute teaching while [...]
Dead batteries are common household hazardous waste items that are accepted at Juneau’s hazardous waste facility. (Photo by Rosemarie Alexander/KTOO) Alaska might soon regulate its own hazardous waste if the [...]
Regina Qussauyaq Therchik, manager of workforce and shareholder development at Calista Corporation, shows information on a laptop on Oct. 29, 2025, to Stephanie and Carl Anaver of Kipnuk. Therchik was [...]
This is a concept design drawing of a new ferry terminal facility in Juneau at Cascade Point. (Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities) The Juneau Assembly doesn’t plan to [...]
Seig̱óot Jessica Chester and Naakil.aan Hans Chester dance to Goosú Wa.é and donate money for a snack fund at Tlingit, Culture, Language and Literacy in Juneau on Oct. 30, 2025. [...]
Don Habeger and Wayne Coogan walk on the top of a privately made berm that failed to protect Habeger’s home from flooding on View Drive in August 2025. (Photo by [...]
Mayor Beth Weldon and Daryl Downing, a program manager at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, sign the assistance agreement to enhance the temporary levee on Oct. 30, 2025. (Alix [...]
Alaska Organized Militia members remove debris while supporting storm recovery operations at Kotzebue, Alaska, Oct. 15, 2025. (Photo courtesy of the Alaska National Guard) It’s been nearly three weeks since [...]
Alaska attorney Aaron Peterson, seen here in a February 2024 photo, is expected to be nominated by President Trump to one of two vacancies on Alaska’s federal court bench. (Alaska [...]
Incumbent Juneau Assembly member Ella Adkison (left) and Greg Smith (middle), and new member Nano Brooks (right) and give their oath to the city attorney at a meeting on Monday, [...]
The Norwegian Jewel berths below the Railroad Dock in Skagway on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) A major rockslide has been threatening Skagway’s busiest cruise ship dock [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Dan Earls had haunted his giant garage for nearly 15 years every Halloween. 100% of the proceeds have been going to Southeast Alaska Foodbank. [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/20251024-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A private beach in Gustavus, known as the Beach Meadows, is now protected by a conservation easement the owners signed with the Southeast Alaska Land Trust, [...]
Alaska Army National Guard Sgt. Hunter Lorenz, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter crew chief, carries a dog during recovery operations at Bethel, Alaska, Oct. 16, 2025. (Staff Sgt. Joseph Moon/Alaska National [...]
October 21, 2025 On this episode of Culture Rich Conversations from Juneau’s Black Awareness Association, it’s the season six premiere. Kicking off the new season with Christina Michelle and Al Boogie, they dive [...]
A swing set at Harborview Elementary School on July 9, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Listen here: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/21OCSDemo.wav The Alaska Office of Children’s Services has struggled with staffing for years, [...]
Juneau, Alaska – October 20, 2025 – KTOO Public Media is pleased to announce the appointment of Lisa Phu as Managing Editor, effective November 10, 2025. Phu brings more than [...]
More than 1,500 people gathered at Overstreet Park for a No Kings protest in Juneau on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/20JUNprotest.wav More than 1,500 Juneauites joined [...]
Evacuees from Tuntutuliak arrive in Bethel on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy requested Thursday that President Donald Trump declare a federal disaster after remnants [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/20251017-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Dozens of attendees at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention stood in protest during U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s speech Friday morning. Juneau residents got a glimpse [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council, in partnership with Perseverance Theatre, presents “Roll for Your Life.” It’s a one-night-only live version of a tabletop [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/20251015-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau’s cold weather emergency shelter opens tonight, Researchers presented new preliminary data on how the ice contributed this summer’s record-breaking flood in the Mendenhall Valley and [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/20251014-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A power outage hit all of Juneau today just after 11 a.m., The city clerk’s office released another batch of results from Juneau’s municipal election today [...]
Gov. Mike Dunleavy and numerous state and federal officials held a news conference on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Anchorage to discuss the devastating impacts of the weekend storm. (Matt [...]
Juneau School District Superintendent Frank Hauser at a school board meeting on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Juneau School District Superintendent Frank Hauser is resigning. In an [...]
Candidates and residents wave election signs in the Mendenhall Valley on Election Day on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) The outcome of Juneau’s municipal election is beginning [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/20251010-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A grand jury indicted a Juneau man on two counts of felony assault for allegedly injuring two Juneau Police officers earlier this month Floodwaters have receded [...]