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 [...]
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 [...]