Charlene Aqpik Apok is the executive director of Data for Indigenous Justice, a nonprofit that requested a list of every Alaska Native murdered in the state over the past three [...]
Former Juneau Chiropractor Jeffrey Fultz and his defense team at the Dimond Courthouse in Juneau on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) After a week of deliberation, the [...]
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (center, red tie) stands with members of the Alaska Legislature on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association’s annual convention in Anchorage. [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250829-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Gov. Mike Dunleavy has named Stephen J. Cox to be Alaska’s next attorney general, The Juneau Police Department released the body-worn camera footage today of a [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250828-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau School District Board of Education is fast tracking a move to restore universal free breakfast for K-12 Students, The Roadless Rule, the rule that [...]
The Dzantik’i Heeni campus in Lemon Creek on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) The Juneau School District Board of Education unanimously accepted nearly $120,000 in grant funding [...]
Students begin their first day of school at the Tlingit Culture, Language and Literacy program at Harborview Elementary School in Juneau on Aug. 15, 2025 (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon) [...]
Alaska’s U.S. House Rep. Nick Begich speaks at a Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee is [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250822-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau School District started off the school year with more than 90 open positions. The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of [...]
A “No Trespassing” sign hangs on a tree at the border of a Native allotment on Douglas Island on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/22THgaming.wav A site [...]
Attorneys James Christie and Krystyn Tendy speak with Judge Larry Woolford in an aside during the trial against Jeffrey Fultz on August 21, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) The trial [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250821-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Cruise ship passengers who arrive at Juneau’s farthest dock may not have to trek as far to get to downtown in the coming years. The union [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250820-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The University of Alaska Southeast has received a grant to train school administrators at local school districts, A former Juneau chiropractor accused of assaulting a dozen [...]
Sam Hatch wades through floodwater in his backyard on Meander Way on Wednesday morning, Aug. 13, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) A temporary levee in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley mostly held [...]
Former state senator Tom Begich announced he’s running for governor. He’s the first Democrat in the crowded race. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) Former state senator Tom Begich is running for [...]
The Habegers build a berm around their house on View Drive on July 22, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Listen to this story: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/15ViewDrive_WEB.wav Homes on View Drive were hit [...]
Students and families walk into Mendenhall River Community School on Aug. 15, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Mendenhall River Community School Principal Eric Filardi welcomed students and families over the [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250815-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Joint Information Center on Friday reported 50 homes in the Mendenhall Valley being flooded. Juneau residents mull over a federal [...]
The Mendenhall Glacier on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Outburst-Ep.-3.mp3 Hundreds of people in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley are living on the front line of a climate change [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250813-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau schools will remain closed tomorrow following a record-breaking glacial outburst flood event, Former Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum is throwing his hat in the ring for [...]
Adam Crum, Commissioner of Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services, answers a question during a press conference centered on Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s latest budget proposal on Wednesday, December 11, [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250811-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: With school set to begin on Thursday, the Juneau School District announced that it plans to close all schools this week if any campuses are impacted [...]
An image of Suicide Basin from the official webcam Sunday afternoon. (Courtesy of National Weather Service & USGS) Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a state disaster declaration Sunday in anticipation of [...]
On this episode of Garden Talk, host Bostin Christopher talks with Darren Snyder about the various ways to gather, process, and apply seaweed to your fertile garden. Seaweed and other [...]
Former Juneau Chiropractor Jeffrey Fultz and his defense team at the Dimond Courthouse in Juneau on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) This was the second week of [...]
City of Juneau prepares for glacial outburst flooding in unified command center with state and local partnersAugust 7, 2025On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: CBJ Deputy City Manager Robert Barr [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250806-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly delayed voting on whether to adopt a ranked choice voting system for local elections beginning in 2026. A summer school program taught incoming [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/20250805-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski isn’t ruling out running for governor. Juneau Assembly members rejected a plan to create a shelter safety zone around a homeless [...]
The Harborview Elementary School playground on July 9, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Registration for after-school child care in the Juneau School District opened last Friday, but the information the [...]
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline crosses the landscape, seen here south of Copper Center, Alaska on August 13, 2024. Alaska lawmakers overrode Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a bill intended to bolster [...]
Suzanne Cohen holds a sign in the rain outside the Alaska State Capitol on Friday, Aug. 1 calling on lawmakers to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of more than $50 [...]
Former Juneau chiropractor Jeffrey Fultz sits during his sexual assault trial in Juneau on Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Content warning: This article includes mentions of sexual [...]
Erin Stockdale, Curtis Lee, Mike Records and Leif Hammes from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers present the federal process to come up with a long-term flood protection solution for [...]
Former Juneau chiropractor Jeffrey Fultz sits during jury selection ahead of his sexual assault trial in Juneau on Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Content warning: This article [...]
(Courtesy of U.S. Tsunami Warning System) Alaska communities in the Aleutians and Pribilofs are under a tsunami warning after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka at about 3:25 [...]
A U.S. Coast Guard boat approaches the humpback whale carcass on Saturday, July 26. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) A dead humpback whale calf washed ashore near Douglas Harbor over the [...]
Juneau Police Department vehicles park in downtown Juneau on Thursday, June 13, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) After an 8-month investigation, the law enforcement officers arrested multiple Juneau residents this week for [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250725-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A second Juneau school board member is not running for reelection. Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital leadership discusses the financial impacts on cuts to Medicaid funding. Law [...]
The Unalaska City School District sign. (Maggie Nelson/KUCB) The Trump administration will release millions in federal education funding for Alaska that had been frozen since June 30. Alaska schools will [...]
The facade of the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on May 22, 2024. Lawmakers are planning to gather in Juneau in just over a week for a special legislative session [...]
Alaskans protest potential federal and state funding cuts March 4, 2025 in Anchorage. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Department of Health said Wednesday it is still assessing how President [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250722-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau is inviting developers, nonprofit and tribal governments to apply for grants or loans from its affordable housing fund. Two black [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250721-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Tomorrow marks one month since Juneau resident Benjamin or “Benny” Stepetin was last seen in the capital city. For years, the state has struggled to keep [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Theatre Alaska produces its annual “Climate Fair for Cool Planet” with theatre and musical offerings on Saturday, July 26, Juneau Masonic Family produces the [...]
Food policy advocates at a 2024 meeting in Homer, hosted by the Alaska Food Policy Council, to discuss ways of supporting local farmers. (Alaska Food Policy Council) The U.S. Department [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/240718-fulll.mp3 In this newscast: The Environmental Protection Agency is sticking with its veto of the proposed Pebble Mine project in southwest Alaska. Northern Dynasty, the parent company behind the Pebble [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250717-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly is moving forward with a plan to temporarily move its regular meetings from City Hall to Centennial Hall due to sound quality issues. [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250716-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Petersburg Borough settled a lawsuit from its police chief out of court. The Juneau School District Board of Education approved grant funding to maintain a [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/News-Update-20250715.mp3 In this newscast: As electronic gaming machines chime away at the Eklutna Tribe’s new casino near Anchorage, the high-stakes legal battles over its right to operate goes on. It’s [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250714-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: June’s commercial salmon harvest in the South Alaska Peninsula was one of the lowest in four decades. Wrangell students are continuing to track wildlife with cameras [...]