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 [...]
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 [...]