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 [...]
Carol Picket Hull executes the One-Foot High Kick at Arctic Winter Games, April 1982. (Courtesy of the Alaska State Library. Arctic Winter Games Team Alaska Collection,1967-P399-644.) Carol Pickett Hull was [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250523-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: An Anchorage lawyer has been implicated as a “cartel attorney” working for traffickers who allegedly sent hard drugs from Mexico to Alaska, It was Sen. Lisa [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250522-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Tomorrow is the last day of school at the Juneau School District, and high school seniors are graduating on Sunday, A storm is set to hit [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250521-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Monday in support of keeping the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area federally owned, The City and Borough of Juneau [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250520-News-Update.wav In this newscast: The local advocates who filed a petition with the City and Borough of Juneau last month to put harder limits on cruise ship tourism have withdrawn it. The [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250519-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau School District Board of Education appointed Steve Whitney to the board on Saturday, Senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced a bill that would reauthorize funds [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250516-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Five candidates have applied to fill an empty seat on the Juneau School District Board of Education after Will Muldoon resigned, Alaska regulators have assessed a [...]
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 Alaska Department of Education [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: The Heists perform and preview TrollFest; Members of the Lionel Hampton Big Band stop in ahead of the Juneau Jazz & Classic finale; artists [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250515-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A German Shepherd who was on the lam for nearly three months has been captured to returned to her family, The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation [...]
Senators and representatives speak with one another on the floor of the Alaska House of Representatives during a joint session on May 14, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Lawmakers rejected [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250513-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau was one of nine communities selected for an annual grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a health philanthropy group, Flood inundation maps that model [...]
HESCO barriers along Riverside Drive on April 2, 2025. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO) The Juneau Assembly voted Monday to extend the Mendenhall River levee meant to protect Valley homes from [...]
Molly of Denali (Image courtesy of PBS Kids) The next season of the PBS KIDS show “Molly of Denali” will be the last for the foreseeable future. The team behind [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250509-News-Update.wav In this newscast: The federal government may soon return a traditional subsistence site connected to Douglas Island to its original tribal owners. The next season of the PBS KIDS [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Memphis Gold plays a blues dance and cruise with Juneau Jazz & Classics, Juneau Soccer hosts the fundraiser “Rock n’ Goal,” JAMM faculty shares [...]
HESCO flood barriers line the Mendenhall River on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Flood inundation maps that model how Juneau’s Mendenhall River levee should perform have finally [...]
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon, the Brain Reboot class is back. If you have experienced a brain injury or are caring for someone who has, this class may be [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250506-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Lieutenant governor and former U.S. House candidate Nancy Dahlstrom is running for governor, The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska announced [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250505-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Alaska’s oldest ferry is too expensive to fix, Tlingit and Haida announced that its annual food distributions of herring eggs have been canceled because the federal [...]
Self-portraits Haitian students made at Harborview Elementary School before their family left Juneau. (Photos courtesy of Gwenna Corvez) Some immigrants living in Juneau left the United States recently after an [...]
Samuel Hatch, a new plaintiff in the case, stands on the porch of his home on Meander Way. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO) A lawsuit originally aimed at stopping the construction [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250502-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A proposal that would create and fund tribally run public schools in Alaska inched closer to reality on Thursday, Hundreds in Juneau joined thousands nationwide yesterday [...]