The Alaska State Capitol on March 25, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Alaskans who rent out their cars on platforms like Turo and Getaround are no longer required to collect [...]
“I voted” stickers are seen on display in the headquarters offices of the Alaska Division of Elections in Juneau on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) A [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250711-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A Juneau man who pleaded guilty to stabbing someone to death at a senior and disabled housing facility in 2020 was sentenced this week, nearly 5 [...]
Sport fishing advisory announcements hang on a dockside information board at Petersburg’s South Harbor. (Photo by Olivia Rose/KFSK) Sport fishing for wild king salmon in Southeast Alaska is now more restricted for [...]
The Harborview Elementary School playground on July 9, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/09JSDAddBacks.wav A windfall of state education money means the Juneau School District Board of Education can pay [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250708-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A judge serving in Nome could be reprimanded after the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct found he acted in ways that could damage public trust in [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250707-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Search and rescue responders located the body of a cruise ship passenger in Juneau who went missing during a hike on Tuesday morning of last week. [...]
A candles burns near a missing person’s poster of Benjamin Stepetin at his brother’s apartment on Thursday, July 3, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/03benjamin.wav It’s been nearly two weeks [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250703-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The U.S. Department of Education is withholding about $6.8 billion in education funding for programs serving students that range from migrant education to English language instruction [...]
A sign sharing information about missing hiker Marites Buenafe is taped to a tree at the Mount Roberts trailhead on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Search and [...]
Photo courtesy of the family of Faith Rogers Earlier this week, a man arrested for the 2022 murder of a Juneau woman was released from prison in Wasilla. In early [...]
Students walk to the Harborview Elementary School entrance for the first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) The Juneau School District announced it is ending the [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250701-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A man originally charged with the 2022 murder of a Juneau woman is being released from prison, Two proposed ballot initiatives received enough public support to [...]
Faith Rogers in an undated photo. (Photo courtesy of the family of Faith Rogers) A man originally charged with the 2022 murder of a Juneau woman is being released from [...]
Kris Cheng waves at passing cars with other protesters at a protest outside Senator Dan Sullivan’s office on June 27, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Dozens of Juneau residents gathered [...]
The Bear Creek Fire north of Healy on June 25 (Erick Stahlin/AKCIMT) Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a disaster declaration on Thursday for the Denali Borough after the Bear Creek [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250627-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The fate of Juneau School District’s universal free breakfast program remains uncertain after the Board of Education delayed a decision yesterday, Huna Totem Corporation shareholders adopted [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250626-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau has a new emergency manager. A mandate to sell millions of acres of Public Land was struck from the Republican [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250625-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development has opened the public comment period for a proposed regulation change that redefines what counts as a local [...]
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 [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250623-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, which oversees federal fisheries off Alaska’s coast, is scaling back operations due to federal funding uncertainties. A man died after [...]
The Salmon Creek Dam, pictured here in July 2010. (Creative Commons photo by Nvvchar) A Juneau man died after falling roughly 150 feet while hiking near Salmon Creek Dam on [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250620-News-Update.wav In this newscast: The Juneau Independent, a new web-based newsroom in Juneau, launched today with a mission to offer a newspaper that is locally owned and operated. A Juneau court [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: The band Middle Names headlines a solstice concert at The Crystal Saloon, Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) and Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB) Camp 70 offer [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250618-News-Update.wav In this newscast: A man was arrested twice in Juneau last month for fraud, theft and attempted escape. The City and Borough of Juneau and the Central Council of [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Only Fools Run at Night, a fun run to support Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé cross-country running team, SEAGLA highlights remaining events in Pride [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250617-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The editor of Juneau Empire is leaving the paper. Mark Sabbatini has edited the paper since 2023 and announced his departure in a Facebook post, The [...]
St. Vincent de Paul’s transitional shelter has 26 rooms. (Photo by Lisa Phu/KTOO) The Juneau chapter of St. Vincent de Paul, a global Catholic organization that provides housing support and [...]
Juneau resident Wayne Carnes holds one of the 54 fish food bags he found around Funter Bay. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO) A shipping container full of empty industrial-sized fish food [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250613-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Alaska’s public schools likely won’t get all the money lawmakers approved in a bipartisan vote last month after Gov. Mike Dunleavy unilaterally reduced education funding with [...]
The sun sets at Eaglecrest Ski Area in November 2023. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) One of Eaglecrest Ski Area’s four chairlifts is permanently closed. That’s according to a decision announced [...]
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy gestures to his wife, Rose Dunleavy, during the opening moments of his seventh annual State of the State address in Juneau on Jan. 28, 2024. (Eric [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250611-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneteenth will now be an observed holiday for most City and Borough of Juneau employees starting next week, Juneau’s three Democratic state lawmakers met with constituents [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250610-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly voted to increase both the city’s property tax and utility rates for the fiscal year that begins in July, The City and Borough [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250609-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Dozens of Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone learned how to prepare for flooding expected later this summer, Sealaska Heritage Institute is hoping people [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250606.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau is getting a new public-use cabin, this time built by a local trail maintenance Th nonprofit, The largest timber companies operating in Southeast Alaska want [...]
A Joint Release from KTOO Public Media and 11 Alaska Stations June 6, 2025 – On Monday, June 3rd the White House sent a rescissions package to Congress requesting a [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Cancer Connection celebrates life and remembrance with a walk from Marine Park to Overstreet Park (Whale park), a new zine “To Palestine with Love, [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250605-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The National Guard will conduct emergency preparation drills throughout Juneau beginning this Sunday. A polar icebreaker is on its way to Juneau, where it will eventually [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250604-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Coast Guard responded to a ship fire near Adak Tuesday. Petersburg’s borough assembly passed its budget for the next fiscal year, but funding for a [...]
A ballot drop box sits outside City Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) The Juneau Assembly is mulling over a plan to implement a ranked choice voting system [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250602-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Local advocates have failed to gather enough signatures before the initial deadline for three ballot petitions that seek to lower the cost of living in Juneau, [...]
A landslide on Wednesday morning came to rest on a Ketchikan resident’s home. (photo courtesy of Ketchikan Fire Chief Rick Hines) Heavy rains and flooding in Southeast Alaska triggered a [...]
The stubby squid at the Sitka Sound Science Center usually burrows in the sand during the day, but emerges when she feels comfortable. (Photo provided by Matt Wilson.) In a [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250530-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau’s Joann arts and crafts store is closed, An unvaccinated Anchorage youth tested positive for measles earlier this month, Immigration officials detailed an Anchorage man originally [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20240529-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Heavy rains and flooding in Southeast Alaska triggered a series of small landslides in Ketchikan yesterday. Cancelled federal funding and grants have stalled the construction of [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250528-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Researchers launched and interactive glacial outburst flood website today to help Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley residents plan for annual floods, Many businesses in Southeast Alaska say they’re [...]
Tents line the sidewalks along Teal Street in the Mendenhall Valley on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) At a recent Juneau Assembly meeting, Juneau property and business [...]
Matt Kern harvests wild bull kelp for salsa that he and his partner, Lisa Heifetz, sell. (Photo courtesy of Matt Kern and Lia Heifetz) This is Lingít Word of the [...]
The Norwegian Joy docks in downtown Juneau on Saturday, April 26, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/23seasonaltax.wav Juneau voters may be asked whether to implement a new seasonal sales tax [...]