Carolou holds a photo of her daughter, who left Juneau after receiving an email from the federal government telling them they had to leave or face prosecution. They are both [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250430-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Today marks Juneau International Airport Manager Patty Wahto’s final day on the job after a nearly three-decade-long career, Immigrants and refugees across the country are getting [...]

Rally attendees carry signs and babies on the steps of the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on April 29, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Listen here: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/29BebeRally.wav More than 100 [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250428-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Black bears are emerging from hibernation and roaming around Juneau in search of food, The Alaska Senate passed a bill today that would substantially boost long-term [...]

A car drives past a Juneau Education Association sign posted next to the North Douglas Highway on Thursday, May 4, 2023. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) A crowd of teachers filled [...]

Students, staff and partners with Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve check a crab trap at a community workshop. (Photo courtesy of reserve staff) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/25ClimateCuts_WEB.wav Alaska could lose several research [...]

Tlingit & Haida partners with NDN Girls Book Club for Southeast Book Drop TourApril 24, 2025On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Tlingit & Haida Book Drop Tour; CBJ/League of Women [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250424-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A cruise line representative dodged questions form the Juneau Assembly this afternoon about the company’s plans to develop a new cruise ship port on the backside [...]

Offshore oilfield service vessels sit docked in the city of Bergen in Norway, an Arctic nation that collaborates with the U.S. on military and other matters. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250422-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau’s public transportation system is ramping up its services for the summer tourism season this week, Juneau School District Board of Education member Will Muldoon stepped [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250421-News-update.mp3 In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau clerk’s office has certified a ballot petition that would put harder limits on cruise ship tourism in Juneau, A change [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250418-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a closely-watched education bill yesterday that would have boosted basic per-student funding by $1,000, Southeast Alaska’s largest tribal government approved a rule [...]

'Tangle of Rainbows' concert; Litter Free Community Cleanup; UAS graduation detailsApril 17, 2025On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Con Brio Chamber Series and Orpheus Project combine to present "Tangle of [...]

Alexandra Wagner, Christina Apathy and Flordelino Lagundino performing radio plays written by local high school students at Thunder Mountain Middle School on April 17, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) Students [...]

Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to reporters during a news conference on April 17, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday announced he had vetoed a bill that [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250416-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Alaska organizations that provide weather and environmental information to mariners and subsistence hunters are bracing for reduced funding. The University of Alaska Southeast is retaining services [...]

HESCO flood barriers line the Mendenhall River on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Listen here:  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/15HESCOlawsuit_WEB.wav Tensions over a levee that’s taking shape in backyards along Juneau’s [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250414-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Cruise ship tourism will pay for a number of upgrades to infrastructure in Juneau this year. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration released a long-delayed study on state [...]

Alaska State Troopers Sgt. Joseph Miller (left) and Jason Woodruff (right) pleaded not guilty to assault in Kenai District Court on Tuesday. (Ashlyn O’Hara/KDLL) Two Alaska State Troopers facing assault [...]

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks at a fisheries forum on Oct. 4, 2022. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is calling on the U.S. Department of [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250411-NEWS-UPDATE-1.mp3 In this newscast: People packed a park in Homer on Saturday to protest recent actions by the Trump administration. The JoAnn fabric store chain is closing their stores, including [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250410-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Two Alaska State Troopers facing assault charges over alleged conduct during their arrest of the wrong man in Kenai last year won’t go to trial until [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250409NEWSUPDATE.mp3 In this newscast: A middle-aged man was rescued from frigid waters near Petersburg, The person in charge of ordering and stocking produce at Skagway’s only year-round grocery store is [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250408-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly voted last night to approve a tidelands lease for a fifth cruise ship dock in downtown Juneau, Less than a year after Juneau [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250407-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Trump administration has frozen a million dollars in funding for Planned Parenthood in Alaska, More than 1,300 people in Juneau joined the nationwide Hands-off rally [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/20250404-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly is set to take a critical vote Monday night that will determine if the construction of a fifth cruise ship dock downtown will [...]

April events previews with Juneau Symphony, Lily Hope, UAS Student Acitivities, and the JAHCApril 3, 2025On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: The Juneau Symphony is on the move. They will [...]

Lee Miller is a Cultural ambassador at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center on April 2, 2025. The Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska program started in [...]

Haines, pictured above on April 3, is Alaska’s oldest borough with a median age around 50. The next oldest borough in the state is Wrangell. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS) Alaska has returned [...]

Clockwise from top center: Malia Towne, Mackenzie Englishoe, Sophie Swope and Jazmyn Lee Vent. (Mer Young/High Country News) Alaska Native youth are living through a pivotal time, bearing witness to [...]

Tali Stone stands in the parking lot at the Hyatt Hotel in Anchorage on Monday, March 31, 2025. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) Tali Stone was nine years old when her [...]

The State of Alaska’s PFD and Child Affairs Office is located in downtown Anchorage and pictured here on August 31, 2022. (Valerie Kern/ Alaska Public Media) Monday, March 31, marks [...]

Hot Buttered Rum plays Juneau, JAMHI turns 40, and the HOLI Festival of ColorsMarch 21, 2025On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: The progressive bluegrass band Hot Buttered Rum plays The [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250328-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Trump administration’s potential cuts to federal health care programs leaves Alaska’s HIV/AIDS prevention and support organization in lurch, A Canadian company announced last week that [...]

Rep. Carolyn Hall, D-Anchorage, speaks in support of a bill designating March as Women’s History Month in state law on March 28, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Legislature [...]

The log transfer facility and storage site would be a little over four miles outside of town, in Haines’ Lutak Inlet, pictured above on March 27, 2025. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS) Four [...]

Ed Schoenfeld and Betsy Longenbaugh research old true crime stories in Southeast Alaska together at the Alaska State Archives on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) This is Tongass [...]

The aurora seen from the Old Nenana Highway near Fairbanks in October, 2015. (Photo by Ian Dickson) People living in the northern part of the state will have a chance [...]

Mendenhall Glacier on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Listen to this story: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/24GlacierScience_web.wav Glaciers shape the land and lives of Alaskans — carving mountains, funneling cold freshwater [...]

Audio Podcast Video Podcast On today’s program: Mindset coach Julie Peters is offering a workshop on co-creating with the universe Deborah Craig from the Juneau Commission on Aging shares upcoming [...]

Audio Podcast Video Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tswbAOuIZ1U Local musician Andrew Heist plays with band members Erik Yates and Bryan Horne from Hot Buttered Rum during Juneau Afternoon on Friday, March 21, [...]

Waste Management’s Capitol Disposal Landfill in Lemon Creek on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/21trash.wav The clock is ticking for Juneau to come up with a new [...]

The Petersburg Fisheries seafood processing plant (shown) has changed hands multiple times in recent years, from Icicle to OBI to Silver Bay. (KFSK file photo) Sitka-based Silver Bay Seafoods is [...]

Water levels rise in the Mendenhall River beneath Mendenhall Loop Bridge during Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood on Monday, August 5, 2024. (Photo by Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media) Some of [...]

Unalaska’s 2025 cruise ship season is from May till October. (Laura Kraegel/KUCB) Some international visitors are halting their summer travel to Unalaska as political tensions between countries rise. The Museum [...]

In May, Sitkans will vote on a ballot measure to limit cruise tourism in Sitka. Pictured: the Nieuw Amsterdam ties up in Sitka. (Tash Kimmell/KCAW) Enough signatures have been gathered [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250314-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Alaska’s state ombudsman is resigning in April. Kate Burkhart leaves after eight years on the job and countless investigations that have led to major systemic reforms [...]

The family of Tracy Lynn Day, a Lingít woman who has been missing since 2019, at a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples vigil on March 13, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne [...]

Juneau School District President Deedie Sorensen at a meeting on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO) After months of back and forth between administrators, staff and school board [...]

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/20250313-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau School District Board of Education is expected to pass a budget at a special meeting tonight. The board made last minute changes at its [...]