Mendenhall Glacier on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Listen to this story: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/24GlacierScience_web.wav Glaciers shape the land and lives of Alaskans — carving mountains, funneling cold freshwater [...]
Audio Podcast Video Podcast On today’s program: Mindset coach Julie Peters is offering a workshop on co-creating with the universe Deborah Craig from the Juneau Commission on Aging shares upcoming [...]
Audio Podcast Video Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tswbAOuIZ1U Local musician Andrew Heist plays with band members Erik Yates and Bryan Horne from Hot Buttered Rum during Juneau Afternoon on Friday, March 21, [...]
Waste Management’s Capitol Disposal Landfill in Lemon Creek on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/21trash.wav The clock is ticking for Juneau to come up with a new [...]
The Petersburg Fisheries seafood processing plant (shown) has changed hands multiple times in recent years, from Icicle to OBI to Silver Bay. (KFSK file photo) Sitka-based Silver Bay Seafoods is [...]
Water levels rise in the Mendenhall River beneath Mendenhall Loop Bridge during Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood on Monday, August 5, 2024. (Photo by Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Some of [...]
Unalaska’s 2025 cruise ship season is from May till October. (Laura Kraegel/KUCB) Some international visitors are halting their summer travel to Unalaska as political tensions between countries rise. The Museum [...]
In May, Sitkans will vote on a ballot measure to limit cruise tourism in Sitka. Pictured: the Nieuw Amsterdam ties up in Sitka. (Tash Kimmell/KCAW) Enough signatures have been gathered [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250314-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Alaska’s state ombudsman is resigning in April. Kate Burkhart leaves after eight years on the job and countless investigations that have led to major systemic reforms [...]
The family of Tracy Lynn Day, a Lingít woman who has been missing since 2019, at a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples vigil on March 13, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne [...]
Juneau School District President Deedie Sorensen at a meeting on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) After months of back and forth between administrators, staff and school board [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250313-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau School District Board of Education is expected to pass a budget at a special meeting tonight. The board made last minute changes at its [...]
Rep. Rebecca Himschoot, I-Sitka, speaks in support of the education funding bill on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska House of Representatives narrowly approved a bill [...]
Students walking toward the Dimond Park Field House in Juneau on March 11, 2025. (photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) No one was hurt in a fire at the Dzantik’i Heeni campus [...]
Daaljíni Mary Cruise, who helped organize the Unity for the Queer Community event, addresses those gathered on March 9, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO). Members of Juneau’s LGBTQ+ community and [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250307-News-Update.wav In this newscast: The Juneau School District Board of Education appears to maintain its concerns about state funding as it moves through the budget process for the next fiscal [...]
Students walk off a bus to the Thunder Mountain Middle School entrance for the first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) The Juneau School District Board [...]
Two humpback whales feed in Beaufort Sea, northeast of Point Barrow. (Kate Stafford) Catching salmon in the North Slope village of Kaktovik was unheard of not too long ago. But [...]
Rep. Rebecca Himschoot, I-Sitka, presents an education bill to the House Rules Committee on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) State House leaders unveiled a revised high-priority education [...]
Courtroom A at the Dimond Courthouse in Juneau on Dec. 11, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO). In a Juneau courtroom in January, a man calling in from Lemon Creek Correctional [...]
Application for Medicaid for Alaska Residents. (Rachel Cassandra/Alaska Public Media) Alaska did a good job of keeping its Medicaid costs in check in past years, but the state faces pressures [...]
Downtown Juneau on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Temporary cell phone and internet connection has most Juneau residents back online after a damaged subsea cable caused a [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250228-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A damaged subsea cable is the apparent cause of the internet and cell service outage in Juneau, More federal workers were fired in Alaska yesterday, this [...]
SEAGLA, the Southeast Alaska LGBTQIA+ alliance, has a full slate of March events, including yoga, pride month planning, and a book & media swap. On this episode: Juneau Community Bands [...]
The mineral exploration site sits above a tributary that runs into the Chilkat Watershed outside Haines. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS) For years, a prospector who discovered a controversial mineral deposit outside Haines [...]
Rep. Genevieve Mina, D-Anchorage, speaks in favor of a budget amendment on Thursday, April 6, 2023, in the Alaska House of Representatives. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) A budget resolution passed [...]
The University of Alaska Southeast campus in Juneau on Monday, March. 4, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) The University of Alaska is grappling with how to respond to broad executive orders from [...]
Painter Jennifer Gross (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Gross) This episode of Culture Rich Conversations from Juneau’s Black Awareness Association concludes the February series spotlighting Black artists in Alaska. Host Chritina [...]
From left, University of Alaska regents Seth Church, Albiona Selimi and Dennis Michel participate in a board meeting on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/KDLL) The University [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250221-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A survey of Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital staff last year shows they lack confidence in management and leadership and are experiencing higher rates of burnout and [...]
The Juneau Piano Series Eduard Zilberkant and Jon Hays on Juneau Afternoon Fri, Feb. 21, 2025. On this episode: The Juneau Piano Series previews two concerts featuring Eduard Zilberkant and [...]
Bartlett Regional Hospital Human Resources Director Chad Brown presents to the board of directors on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) A survey of Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital [...]
Vera Starbard will serve as Alaska State Writer Laureate through 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Juneau Afternoon’s Rainy Day Conversations features Alaska State Writer Laureate and three-time Emmy-nominated writer Vera [...]
People who followed Rep. Begich’s town hall on Facebook saw this image the entire time. (Screenshot from Facebook) Some Alaskans were bursting to ask tough questions of their congressman, Nick [...]
State biologists are tracking Haines-area mountain goats to understand their habitat and range better. (Photo courtesy Alaska Department of Fish and Game) This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each [...]
A hiker walks on May 30, 2018, on the trail to the Tongass National Forest’s Tern Island campsite in Wrangell, Alaska. (Photo by Xavier Rivera/U.S. Forest Service) At least 30 [...]
Children exit a school bus outside the Alaska Capitol on Feb. 14, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Preschoolers, childcare providers and parents flanked the hallways of the Alaska Capitol leading [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250214-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Sen. Lisa Murkowski introduced a bill that would keep the name Denali for North America’s highest peak; Lawmakers are looking at Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposal to [...]
Executive director Tom Pittman stands in front of Identity Health Clinic on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. Identity is the largest provider of gender-affirming care in Alaska. The clinic is sprinting [...]
Bartlett Regional Hospital CEO Joe Wanner speakers to the audience at the Southeast Alaska Conference’s Mid-Session Summit on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Juneau’s city-owned hospital is [...]
The Tongass National Forest is the largest temperate rainforest in the country. With exceptions, the Clinton-era Roadless Rule restricted road building and industrial activity in around 55% of the national [...]
The U.S. Forest Service warned residents on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025 of a large crack in the Mendenhall Glacier that may cause significant calving. (Courtesy of U.S. Forest Service) The [...]
Harborview Elementary student Chloe Kinville-James participates in the Inuit stick pull at the Native Youth Olympics Junior Celebration at Dzántik’i Héeni Middle School gym on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (Photo [...]
The entrance of the Hurff Ackerman Saunders Federal Building in Juneau. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO) Since taking office last month, President Donald Trump’s administration has actively pursued its goal to [...]
Chilkoot Lake (Alain d’Epremesnil/KHNS) Authorities in Haines have suspended their search for a man who reportedly fell into Chilkoot Lake while ice skating on Thursday. In a dispatch, state troopers said [...]
A sexual assault kit. (Photo from Alaska Department of Public Safety) Gov. Mike Dunleavy has introduced legislation to set a statewide tracking system in place for sexual assault kits, [...]
City and Borough of Juneau’s Utilities Superintendent Brian McGuire walks across a bridge in the wastewater clarifier building at the Juneau Douglas Wastewater Treatment Plant on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. [...]
Federal dignitaries, VA employees and beneficiaries at a 2022 ceremony naming the Anchorage VA clinic after a pioneering Army officer. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) Uncertainty and stress are demoralizing Alaska’s [...]
Deputy Mayor Greg Smith speaks at a Juneau Assembly meeting on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/04floodvote.wav The City and Borough of Juneau will move forward with a controversial [...]
Audubon intern Mali Tamone discovers ribbon kelp at the beach near the Rainforest Trail on July 15, 2022 in Juneau. (Photo by Paige Sparks/KTOO) The waters of Southeast Alaska are [...]