Executive director Tom Pittman stands in front of Identity Health Clinic on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. Identity is the largest provider of gender-affirming care in Alaska. The clinic is sprinting [...]
Bartlett Regional Hospital CEO Joe Wanner speakers to the audience at the Southeast Alaska Conference’s Mid-Session Summit on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) Juneau’s city-owned hospital is [...]
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 [...]
The U.S. Forest Service warned residents on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025 of a large crack in the Mendenhall Glacier that may cause significant calving. (Courtesy of U.S. Forest Service) The [...]
Harborview Elementary student Chloe Kinville-James participates in the Inuit stick pull at the Native Youth Olympics Junior Celebration at Dzántik’i Héeni Middle School gym on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (Photo [...]
The entrance of the Hurff Ackerman Saunders Federal Building in Juneau. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO) Since taking office last month, President Donald Trump’s administration has actively pursued its goal to [...]
Chilkoot Lake (Alain d’Epremesnil/KHNS) Authorities in Haines have suspended their search for a man who reportedly fell into Chilkoot Lake while ice skating on Thursday. In a dispatch, state troopers said [...]
A sexual assault kit. (Photo from Alaska Department of Public Safety) Gov. Mike Dunleavy has introduced legislation to set a statewide tracking system in place for sexual assault kits, [...]
City and Borough of Juneau’s Utilities Superintendent Brian McGuire walks across a bridge in the wastewater clarifier building at the Juneau Douglas Wastewater Treatment Plant on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. [...]
Federal dignitaries, VA employees and beneficiaries at a 2022 ceremony naming the Anchorage VA clinic after a pioneering Army officer. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) Uncertainty and stress are demoralizing Alaska’s [...]
Deputy Mayor Greg Smith speaks at a Juneau Assembly meeting on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/04floodvote.wav The City and Borough of Juneau will move forward with a controversial [...]
Audubon intern Mali Tamone discovers ribbon kelp at the beach near the Rainforest Trail on July 15, 2022 in Juneau. (Photo by Paige Sparks/KTOO) The waters of Southeast Alaska are [...]
Juneau Afternoon: Alaska Music Summit, Behind The Music, and Juneau Dance Theatre celebrates 50 yearsJanuary 24, 2025On today's program: The Alaska Music Summit, happening on Sat, Feb. 1, offers musicians, [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250131-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Portugal. the Man, Ya Tseen and Samantha Crain are performing in Southeast Alaska this weekend to fundraise for the Point House Revitalization Project, Alaska Folk Festival [...]
Students head to their first day of class at Thunder Mountain Middle School on Thurs, Aug. 15, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) Alaska students posted some of the lowest scores in the [...]
Sled dogs line up along the frozen Kuskokwim River for the start of the 2025 Holiday Classic sled dog race on Jan. 16, 2025. (MaryCait Dolan/KYUK) In an archival video [...]
President Trump is seen here after signing a range of executive orders on Jan. 23. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The Office of Management and Budget has rescinded its call for a pause [...]
President Donald Trump has promised to greatly curtail the federal government and a memo released Monday by the Office of Management and Budget aims to follow through on that promise [...]
Evening light hits Denali’s face. (Photo by Tim Rains/U.S. National Park Service) The Alaska House of Representatives offered a rebuke Monday to President Donald Trump’s move to rename North America’s [...]
Juneau Afternoon: Live music with The Forest That Never Sleeps, Tlingit & Haida's Cultural Ambassador Program, Brain Reboot class from SAILJanuary 23, 2025On this episode: Live music with The Forest [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250124-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Over $130 million in grants for clean energy projects in rural Alaska are now frozen, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing funding from [...]
Chilkat Valley News owner Rashah McChesney sits in her office in Haines, along with her malamute, Klondike. (Photo by Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS) Late one night in January, a reporter sat working [...]
A voter in Alaska’s special U.S. House primary election drops their ballot into a box on Saturday, June 11, 2022 as a poll worker observes. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) [...]
Children pick up their school lunches. A new bill in the Alaska Legislature could provide free breakfast and lunch for all students. (Amanda Mills/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) All [...]
Major General Hilbert apologizes to Wrangell Cooperative Association on Jan. 11, 2025 for bombarding Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw 155 years ago. (Colette Czarnecki/KSTK) A large group of people greeted each other with morning [...]
The finish line of the 45th annual Kuskokwim 300. (MaryCait Dolan/KYUK) The 2025 Kuskokwim 300 has been pushed back two weeks because of poor snowfall and looming above-freezing temperatures, according [...]
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 Juneau School District says [...]
Flooding in Kwigillingok on Jan. 10, 2025. (Courtesy Lewis Martin) Strong tidal action and fierce southerly winds inundated low-lying areas of the Kuskokwim Delta coastal community of Kwigillingok on Friday [...]
A male deer licks a tree branch at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center raised over $30,000 [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250110-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau’s Áak’w Rock Indigenous Music Festival postponed until 2027, The new district attorney in Juneau sat down with KTOO’s Yvonne Krumrey to talk about the job, [...]
Juneau District Attorney Whitney Bostick on Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO) Whitney Bostick became Juneau’s new district attorney in November. Bostick grew up in Palmer and previously worked [...]
Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case (left) and Mayor Suzanne LaFrance speak to reporters on Aug. 15, 2024 at APD headquarters. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) A consultant hired by Anchorage’s municipal [...]
Cottongrass wafts over the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Sept. 2, 2006. (S. Hillebrand/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) No bids were received in the second congressionally managed [...]
Downtown Anchorage skyline, viewed from Tony Knowles Coastal Trail on Nov. 18, 2022. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) A new state population estimate shows Alaska has 741,147 residents, an increase of more [...]
Roblin Gray Davis (right) clowning around with his brother W. Scott Davis. (Photo courtesy of Roblin Gray Davis) This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from [...]
Sea ice floats in the Bering Strait off Cape Prince of Wales. (UAF photo by Gay Sheffield) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden announced Monday that he is banning offshore oil [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250103-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Applications for the 2025 PFD opened on New Year’s Day and will stay open until March 31, Ketchikan has a new police chief, A new report [...]
Juneau Afternoon: The new Widows & Widowers Garden Support Group begins next week in JuneauJanuary 2, 2025On this episode: The Widows & Widowers Garden Support Group is forming in Juneau, [...]
Construction workers attend to outdoor tasks on Dec. 17, 2024, at a residential project being built in downtown Anchorage. Alaska is expected to gain 1,500 construction jobs this year, according [...]
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Fairbanks campus Chief Scientist Tom Marsik describes how the lab is testing LG’s new air-source heat pump prototype, which is supposed to be an effective home [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/202412312024-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A union representing nurses at Providence Alaska has filed three unfair labor practice charges against the hospital, Tongass Voices: Juneau Animal Rescue on the joy of [...]
Juneau Animal Rescue Executive Director Rick Driscoll and Board Member Amber Hawke pose with the 2025 Alaska Pets Calendar on Dec. 18, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO). This is Tongass [...]
A fitted with a tracking collar walks through muskeg on Mitkof Island in 2020. (Photo courtesy of Dan Eacker/ADF&G) This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each week, we feature [...]
Southeast Alaska Food Bank in Juneau. November 15, 2022. (Photo by Claire Stremple/KTOO) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/26gustavus-.wav The small Southeast Alaska town of Gustavus is hosting a food drive this weekend. And it’s [...]
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/20241226-News-Update.wav In this newscast: A Juneau woman died after she was shot and killed by a Juneau Police officer in the parking lot of the Mendenhall Valley Breeze In convenience [...]
Nikolski School students gather on couches as teacher Lynette Hall and teacher’s aide Tatyana Hillhouse review homework assignments at the end of the school day. (Sofia Stuart-Rasi/KUCB) Nikolski’s one-room purple [...]
Skagway School Superintendent Josh Coughran talks with students at lunch time. (Melinda Munson/KHNS) Skagway School District has just one school, a one-story building that serves the families of the small [...]
Tape surrounds the Valley Breeze In as police investigate the death of a woman involving a police officer on Christmas morning on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO) A woman [...]
Teshekpuk Caribou Herd animals graze in June of 2014 in the northeastern part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The land around Teshekpuk Lake is considered key habitat for [...]
Beavers build dams to create ponds, where they build underwater lodges. The deep water offers protection from predators. (Photo courtesy of SEALT) This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each [...]