Anchorage news

• Young doesn’t see GOP as rubber stamp of Trump’s ideas

  02-12-2016 21:14
  
  U.S. Rep. Don Young says there are similarities between the election of Donald Trump and the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan, which he says came during a period of “malaise” when people lacked hope and wanted change.
  Young is the longest-serving Republican in the House and Trump’s administration will be the ninth he’s served alongside.
  Young distanced himself from Trump during the campaign and acknowledged he was surprised by Trump’s victory, as he was with Reagan&rs
  
  Read more

• As Juneau residents dry out from the flood, some wonder which repairs are worth it

  06-09-2024 17:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Sam and Amanda Hatch circle their house on Meander Way (Photo by Anna Canny/KTOO)
  Sam and Amanda Hatch can’t reach the knob on their front door. It’s suspended in mid-air, along with the rest of their home, which towers above the others on Meander Way.
  During last year’s glacial outburst flood, water filled the Hatch’s crawl space and saturated the silty land beneath their house until it was wiggly, like quick sand. The whole building sank back towards the river. The four
  
  Read more

• Juneau Afternoon: AK Hip Hop Showcase, playreading fundraiser from Theatre in the Rough, and Douglas Candidate Forum

  06-09-2024 03:26 via ktoo.org
  
  
  WORDPLAY presents the AK Hip Hop Showcase, on Friday, September 6 at The Crystal Saloon.On today’s program:AK Hip Hop Showcase preview with event producer and artist WORDPLAYFriday, September 6 at 9:00 p.m. a The Crystal Saloon“Rough Reads” a new event from Theatre in the Rough, is serving as a fundraiser for the recent glacier overflow floodingFour plays presented beginning Thursday, September 12 at McPhetres HallDouglas Candidate Forum via Friends of Douglas, Sunday, Septembe
  
  Read more

• Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 5th, 2024

  06-09-2024 03:08 via ktoo.org
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240905-News-Update.wav
  In this newscast:Homeowners in the Mendenhall Valley are cleaning up and making repairs after last month’s record-breaking glacial outburst flood. They say it’s hard to know what kind of flood mitigation will protect them next year.
  Advocates for the “Ship Free Saturday” ballot initiative hope try to drum up support before the fall election.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024

  06-09-2024 03:08 via ktoo.org
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240905-News-Update.wav
  In this newscast:Homeowners in the Mendenhall Valley are cleaning up and making repairs after last month’s record-breaking glacial outburst flood. They say it’s hard to know what kind of flood mitigation will protect them next year.
  Advocates for the “Ship Free Saturday” ballot initiative hope to drum up support before the fall election.
  
  Read more

• Alaska Democrats ask judge to remove imprisoned out-of-state U.S. House candidate from November ballot

  06-09-2024 00:51 via ktoo.org
  
  Voters cast their ballots at the Anchorage Division of Elections Office on Election Day, November 8, 2022. The polling place served as a an early voting location for districts 1 to 40. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media)
  The Alaska Democratic Party is asking a judge to kick a convicted felon serving a 20-year sentence in a New York federal prison off this November’s general election ballot. Eric Hafner is challenging Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola for Alaska’s lone
  
  Read more

• Juneau activists make case for “Ship-Free Saturdays” as opposition campaign grows

  05-09-2024 22:14 via ktoo.org
  
  Karla Hart speaks to a crowd at a forum in support of the Ship-Free Saturdays ballot proposition downtown on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Advocates for a proposition set to appear on Juneau’s local ballot this fall say they want one day a week during the summer cruise season when there are no ships in port. 
  And the proposition would do just that — if they can convince enough Juneau voters to pass it.
  Steve Krall is a Juneau resident who attended a forum at Go
  
  Read more

• Ship en route to repair Sitka’s damaged fiber optic cable

  05-09-2024 20:23 via ktoo.org
  
  The cable ship Cable Innovator docked in Port Angeles, Wash. in May 2022 (Creative Commons/DeVos Max)
  A British-flagged cable-laying ship is sailing from Canada to Southeast Alaska to repair a damaged undersea fiber optic cable that has disrupted telecommunications and internet in Sitka since last Thursday.
  Alaska telecom firm GCI says the Cable Innovator stopped at Victoria, British Columbia to load materials for the repair job. It should arrive by the end of the week.
  GCI has confirm
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Alaska judge strikes down requirement that only licensed physicians provide abortions

  05-09-2024 19:18 via ktoo.org
  
  Protesters rally for abortion rights in front of the Alaska Capitol in Juneau on May 21, 2019. (Photo by David Purdy/KTOO)
  An Alaska law prohibiting anyone other than a licensed physician from performing abortions violates the state constitution’s equal protection and privacy guarantees, a state Superior Court judge ruled on Wednesday.
  There is “no medical reason” why abortions cannot be provided by advanced practice clinicians, or APCs, such as nurse practitioners and physicia
  
  Read more

• For some University of Alaska faculty, the next paycheck could be $0

  05-09-2024 03:51 via ktoo.org
  
  The University of Alaska Southeast campus in Juneau on Monday, March. 4, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  When Tara Palmer checked her upcoming paycheck online on Tuesday, she got an unwelcome surprise. For her first weeks back to full-time work as a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, she was scheduled to be paid $0.
  “I am a single parent. I have a daughter in college that I help support, and a daughter in high school, and this is a very significant financial issue for me,”
  
  Read more

• Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024

  05-09-2024 03:07 via ktoo.org
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240903-News-Update.wav
  In this newscast:A state agency that’s been awarding annual grants to Alaska libraries cut some of its stipend this year, and smaller rural libraries may suffer.
  For Tongass Voices, Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds is an Inupiaq actor starring in “Cold Case” a play opening this weekend at Perserverance Theater.
  
  Read more

• A meeting at an Eagle River brewery helped put a convicted felon on Alaska’s U.S. House ballot

  05-09-2024 03:03 via ktoo.org
  
  A summary sheet is seen during ballot review on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, at the headquarters of the Alaska Division of Elections in Juneau. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  When Nick Begich arranged to meet Matt Salisbury at Matanuska Brewing in Eagle River last Thursday, he intended the get-together to be a simple scouting mission.
  Salisbury finished fourth in Alaska’s U.S. House primary last month, and Begich, who finished second, wanted to get to know his fellow Republican.
  Instead,
  
  Read more

• Juneau Afternoon: Suicide Prevention Month, Marie Darlin prize awardee Scott Burton, Avery Skaggs First Friday opening

  05-09-2024 02:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Scott Burton was presented with the $5000 Marie Darlin Prize at the City Museum on August 13th, 2024. (Photo from Juneau-Douglas City Museum)On today’s program:Juneau Suicide Prevention Coalition – Suicide Awareness & Prevention MonthJuneau-Douglas City Museum featuring Scott Burton, winner of the Marie Darlin $5,000 prizeJuneau Arts and Humanities Council September First Friday and events preview
  Bostin Christopher hosts the conversation. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3:00 p.m. on KT
  
  Read more

• Tongass Voices: Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds on finding herself on the stage

  04-09-2024 23:57 via ktoo.org
  
  Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds plays the grandmother, Aaka Mary, in Cold Case, running at Perseverance Theater this month. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond.
  Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds is an Inupiaq actor and language teacher. She was seen by more than 12 million people playing an auntie to Jodie Foster’s step-daughter in the latest season of True Detective. She&rsqu
  
  Read more

• Landslide triggers 55-foot tsunami wave at Kenai Fjords National Park

  04-09-2024 21:46 via ktoo.org
  
  A satellite map showing the Pedersen Lagoon tsunami site. (From National Park Service)
  A remote landslide produced a tsunami last month at Kenai Fjords National Park near Seward.
  No injuries or fatalities were reported, but the wave caused minor damage to a privately-owned boardwalk. It also moved a Park Service campground food storage box about 20 feet.
  According to the National Park Service, the Aug. 7 landslide splashed down into the upper part of Pedersen Lagoon about 20 miles southwest of S
  
  Read more

• Expanded access to food stamps, health care becomes law in Alaska

  04-09-2024 19:31 via ktoo.org
  
  The facade of the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on May 22, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  More Alaskans will be eligible for food stamps and access to health care for school-age children and young adults will increase under a bill that became law without Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s signature on Aug. 30.
  Dunleavy sponsored the original bill, whose goal was to expand the services covered by Medicaid to include things like workforce development and food security. The bill takes advantage of
  
  Read more

• Here’s where money from Alaska’s opioid settlement is going

  04-09-2024 17:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Willy Dunne, vice president of Kachemak Bay Recovery Connection, stands in front of their mobile recovery unit. The organization will use funds from the state’s opioid settlement to open a center in downtown Homer and staff it. (Photo courtesy of Kachemak Bay Recovery Connection)
  Alaska’s Division of Public Health announced 18 organizations in the state that will get grants as part of the National Opioid Settlement. The grants will fund programs to help communities address the state&
  
  Read more

• Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024

  04-09-2024 03:12 via ktoo.org
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240903.wav
  In this newscast:A widespread internet outage in Sitka continued into the weekend.
  Underwater anthropologist Kelly Monteleone kicks off Sealaska Heritage Institute’s fall lecture series this week.
  A new project helps provides communities with data in
  
  Read more

• Bill adding more Indigenous languages to Alaska’s official list becomes law

  04-09-2024 01:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Rep. Andi Story, D-Juneau, speaks during a House Education Committee meeting on May 3, 2024. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  A bill adding more Indigenous languages to Alaska’s official list became law on Friday without the governor’s signature. 
  Its passage means Alaska now officially recognizes 23 Alaska Native languages. The new additions to the list are Cup’ig, Middle Tanana, Lower Tanana and Wetał. Middle and Lower Tanana were previously classified as just one l
  
  Read more

• Murkowski pledges federal support for Ketchikan landslide recovery efforts

  04-09-2024 00:26 via ktoo.org
  
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski surveys the Third Avenue landslide zone with Ketchikan Mayor Dave Kiffer and other local officials. (Jack Darrell/KRBD)
  On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski stood on Ketchikan’s Third Avenue Bypass in a reflective safety vest with local officials. All around her, crews with heavy machinery worked to clear layers of mud and debris from the roadway. She looked up the collapsed slope and down at the devastation below from last week’s deadly landslide.
  &ldq
  
  Read more

• How an underwater anthropologist explores Southeast’s fluid landscape

  03-09-2024 20:51 via ktoo.org
  
  A team of scientists and Alaska Native community members use an autonomous underwater vehicle to explore the continental shelf west of Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska, seeking submerged caves and rock shelters that would have been accessible to early inhabitants of the region. (Photo courtesy of NOAA)
  Dr. Kelly Monteleone is an underwater anthropologist at Sealaska Heritage Institute and an assistant professor at the University of Calgary.
  She’s kicking off SHI’s fall lec
  
  Read more

• Ketchikan police chief to resign in plea deal over off-duty assault charges

  03-09-2024 19:37 via ktoo.org
  
  Ketchikan Police Chief Jeff Walls stands in Ketchikan Superior Court on Friday, Dec. 30, 2022, ahead of his arraignment on assault charges. (Eric Stone/KRBD)
  Ketchikan Police Chief Jeffrey Walls has agreed to resign in exchange for state prosecutors dropping five misdemeanor assault charges against him following an off-duty encounter.
  The charges stem from a 2022 altercation at the Salmon Falls Resort north of Ketchikan. During the incident, Walls allegedly shoved a Washington state ma
  
  Read more

• In Valdez, the city hopes it’s found a solution to the affordable housing crisis

  03-09-2024 19:34 via ktoo.org
  
  Mobile homes at a trailer court in Valdez, Alaska on Aug. 15, 2024. Roughly a quarter of Valdez’s housing units are mobile or manufactured homes, and city officials hope to leverage a federal grant to pay for upgraded stock. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)
  For Hermon Hutchens Elementary School Principal Jason Weber, a lack of housing is a big part of his struggle attracting new teachers to Valdez.
  “If I’m trying to hire teachers outside of the community, I’m normally goi
  
  Read more

• Fiber optic cable break in Sitka could take nearly two weeks to repair

  03-09-2024 19:28 via ktoo.org
  
  Trollers await the July 1 opening of the king salmon season in Sitka’s Crescent Harbor. The commercial season for king salmon in Southeast Alaska opens on Saturday, July 1, 2023. (Berett Wilber/KCAW)
  A widespread internet and cellular outage in Sitka continued into the weekend.
  Sitka has been without internet access since Thursday after an undersea fiber optic cable broke, cutting off the island from the online world.
  GCI provides internet and cell service for most Sitkans. In an email to
  
  Read more

• Lingít Word of the Week: Kichx̱.anagaat — Rainbow

  03-09-2024 19:21 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Rainbow near the Wrangell Narrows. (Photo by Angela Denning/CoastAlaska)
  This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each week, we feature a Lingít word voiced by master speakers. Lingít has been spoken throughout present-day Southeast Alaska and parts of Canada for over 10,000 years.
  Gunalchéesh to X̱’unei Lance Twitchell, Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and the University of Alaska Southeast for sharing the recorded audio for this series.
  This week’s word is kichx
  
  Read more

• Homeless students in Alaska, nationally could lose access to added aid

  03-09-2024 19:14 via ktoo.org
  
  The halls are lined with lockers and portraits of elders at the Anna Tobeluk Memorial School in Nunapitchuk, Alaska. October 12, 2023. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)
  Alaska school districts risk losing access to up to several hundred thousand dollars in federal funding aimed at homeless students if they aren’t able to commit to spending it by the end of September.
  The money was included in a federal law providing pandemic relief, and national advocates have been pushing
  
  Read more

• Juneau Afternoon: Whiskey Class album release party, Juneau Lyric Opera’s ‘Who’s Your Diva?’ fundraiser, and Central Labor Council’s annual Labor Day picnic

  31-08-2024 05:28 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau Lyric Opera’s “Who’s Your Diva?” happening at Centennial Hall, Saturday, September 7On today’s program:Whiskey Class album release party at the Alaskan, Friday, August 30“Who’s Your Diva?” Juneau Lyric Opera is happening on Saturday, September 7Juneau Central Labor Council Labor Day BBQ on Monday, September 2
  Volunteer Andy Kline hosts the conversation. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3:00 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK and is rebroadcast at 7:00 p.m. You c
  
  Read more

• Newscast – Friday, August 30, 2024

  31-08-2024 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240830-News-Update.mp3
  In the newscast:Heavy rainfall is coming to Southeast Alaska this weekend, beginning Friday afternoon,
  An advocacy group is telling Juneau residents to vote no on a proposition set to appear on the local ballot this fall. It’s about whether large cruise ships should be banned on Saturdays starting next year,
  Sitka continued to experience a wide internet and cell service outage Friday,
  Despite the outage, a Sit
  
  Read more

• Sitka still without internet, cell service after undersea cable break

  31-08-2024 01:29 via ktoo.org
  
  Trollers await the July 1 opening of the king salmon season in Sitka’s Crescent Harbor. The commercial season for king salmon in Southeast Alaska opens on Saturday, July 1, 2023. (Berett Wilber/KCAW)
  Sitka continued to experience a wide internet and cell service outage Friday.
  Nearly all Sitkans use GCI for both services, but that went out Thursday shortly after 11 a.m. On Friday, GCI said in a statement posted to social media that they are investigating a break in a subsea fiber optic ca
  
  Read more

• Wet Labor Day weekend kicks off Southeast rainy season

  30-08-2024 23:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Rain runoff runs down a drain in the Mendenhall Valley in November 2022. (Clarise Larson/ for the Juneau Empire)
  Heavy rainfall is coming to Southeast Alaska this weekend, beginning Friday afternoon.
  This kind of precipitation can increase the risk of landslides. In a public service announcement, the City and Borough of Juneau advised residents on and around slopes to be aware of their surroundings as the wet weather moves through.
  Meteorologist Pete Boyd with the National Weather Service said t
  
  Read more

Follow @AnchorageNewsUS on Twitter!