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 [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Audio Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nxnBY7_Q34 Video Livestream Bostin Christopher hosts the conversation. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3:00 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK with a rebroadcast [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/20251008-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Preliminary results are in for Juneau’s 2025 municipal election. No developers have bitten on 200 acres of city land upzoned for denser housing on Douglas Island [...]
SATURDAY, October 25 – Celebrate Halloween Early with KXLL – Excellent Radio for Zombie Walk, Juneau’s annual flesh eating flash mob! BACK FROM THE DEAD AFTER NINE YEARS! Zombies will [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/20251006-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau’s municipal Election Day is almost here. Voters have until tomorrow night at 8 p.m. sharp to cast their ballots, And Juneau’s high school students also [...]
Judge Larry Woolford in the Dimond Courthouse in Juneau on August 14, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) It’s been a month since the sexual assault trial against a former Juneau [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Audio Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucXAIZ_uTRQ Video Livestream Juneau Afternoon livestream featuring “Moving through the Boreal Forest” at the Alaska State Museum, First Friday with the [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/20251003-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Among the most vulnerable Alaskans to the ongoing federal shutdown could be thousands of parents who depend on WIC to help them buy food, Former Anchorage [...]
Kax̱dig̱oowu Héen Elementary School librarian and arts specialist Davin Savikko gestures at picture books at the school’s library on Oct. 1, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Davin Savikko wears a [...]
On this epsiode of Juneau Afternoon: Juneau Symphony opens its season with new Music Director Brad Hogarth conducting Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 Juneau Ghost Light Theatre presents “Dracula: A Comedy [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250930-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Chief of Police Derek Bos says the Juneau Police Department is taking action to reform its policies after an officer was filmed slamming a man to [...]
Trees outline the Telephone Hill neighborhood in downtown Juneau on Monday, June 9, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) The City and Borough of Juneau has pushed back the eviction deadline [...]
Cottongrass wafts over the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 2, 2006. (Steve Hillebrand/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) A U.S. District Court judge in Anchorage has ruled [...]
The East Plaza of the U.S. Capitol. The Senate is due to vote on a short-term spending plan Monday, but it is not expected to pass. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250926-News-update.mp3 In this newscast: Bartlett Regional Hospital is taking over ownership of an independently owned pediatric clinic in downtown Juneau, A proposition on Juneau’s local ballot this year asks voters [...]
Homes in the Mendenhall Valley on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/26millrate.wav A proposition on Juneau’s local ballot this year asks voters whether to lower the cap [...]
Anchorage Police Department downtown headquarters on June 9, 2020 (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage Police Department is now using artificial intelligence software to better review investigative data. It’s the [...]
Editor’s note: Due to a slow web editor, today’s installment is being posted after Day 1 results were released. Here is the line up nevertheless. Tune in Wednesday morning for [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/clarise.mp3 In this newscast: It’s officially autumn, and with the season comes more stormy weather. The National Weather Service issued a high wind warning and flood watch for Juneau today. Raising [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250919-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Ballots are on their way from Washington state to registered voters in Juneau for this year’s local election, This year’s Permanent Fund Dividend will be exactly [...]
Alaskans file their Permanent Fund dividend applications in downtown Anchorage in March 2016. The Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks PFD information offices are closed because of the pandemic, but Alaskans can [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t14Suur-fY Juneau Assembly and school board candidates running in the Oct. 7 municipal election answered questions about local issues during the 2025 League of Women Voters Candidate Forum on [...]
Mitchell Watley testifies at the trial against him, presided by Judge Amy Mead, on Sept. 15, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) A jury has declared a Juneau artist not guilty [...]
Kristen Ford, queer singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, kicked off her North American tour for her latest album “Pinto” at the Crystal Saloon on August 30. Delivering a blend of indie rock [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250916-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau’s longtime fire chief announced he plans to retire later this fall, The National Weather Service has canceled a flood warning for Mendenhall Lake and River [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250915-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A second, minor glacial lake outburst flood is underway in Juneau, On Saturday, more than 100 people gathered in Juneau to protest the potential rescission of [...]
Tyonek Garden in 2024. Some Alaska Native leaders said the USDA reorganization could harm tribal agriculture.(Photo from Tyonek Tribal Conservation District) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced in July [...]
Families, students and teachers hold hands and walk toward a trail to pick tea leaves next to Eagle River United Methodist Camp near Juneau on Sept. 5, 2025. (Photo by [...]
A tower and avalanche diversion wall on the Snettisham transmission line. (Photo courtesy of Mike Janes/AEL&P) Juneau might lose its ability to say that its electricity is created entirely by [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250911-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau School Board greenlit bringing back the district’s universal free breakfast program this week, Major maritime shipping companies in Alaska have stopped transporting electric vehicles [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250910-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau may be getting a ‘new’ City Hall after all – but this time voters won’t get to decide on whether to approve it. The union [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250909-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: University of Alaska Fairbanks administrators told the Board of Regents last week that they think UAF is set to become a top-tier research institution in 2030. [...]
Workers at the Alaska Division of Elections’ State Review Board consider ballots on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, at the division’s headquarters in Juneau. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) A document [...]
Coeur Alaska’s Kensington Mine. Lower Slate Lake is tucked in the trees on the left and the port is on the bottom right (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO) A gold exploration [...]
Drone image of Marion Drive during the 2025 glacial outburst flood on August 13, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Alaska DOT) During Juneau’s record-breaking glacial outburst flood earlier this month, the [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250905-News-Update.wav In this newscast: Sunday is the last day to register to vote or update your mailing address for Juneau’s 2025 municipal election A pedestrian is dead after a car [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/20250904-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Alaska Marine Highway System ferry LeConte will continue to be out of service leading into the weekend. After eight days of deliberation, the jury in [...]
Cereal boxes sit on a store shelf in Kodiak in 2023. (Kirsten Dobroth/KMXT) Alaska’s Department of Law is asking a judge to throw out much of a class action lawsuit [...]
The Alaska ferry MV LeConte docked at the Auke Bay Ferry Terminal on Sept. 2, 2025. The LeConte has been docked since Aug. 31 due to mechanical issues. (Photo by [...]