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• Newscast – Thursday, April 3, 2025

  04-04-2025 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:Alaskans used to pay the highest rent in the nation, but new state data show that cost has stabilized,
  Juneau officials are proposing to set city money aside to hire staff for one of the city’s main tourist attractions: the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center,
  Contractors are building flood barriers along the Mendenhall River to protect Juneau neighborhoods from flooding expected this summer, but new
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, May 6, 2025

  07-05-2025 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
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  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 today that it is rejoining the Alaska Federation of Natives,
  The Juneau Assembly chose a preliminary redevelopment plan for the downtown Telephone Hill neighborhood that, if approved, would evict residents by October,
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• Tlingit and Haida rejoins Alaska Federation of Natives

  07-05-2025 01:48 via ktoo.org
  
  Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson, president of Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, speaks at the 90th annual Tribal Assembly in Juneau on Wednesday, April 18, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska announced on Tuesday that it is rejoining the Alaska Federation of Natives.
  The move comes almost exactly two years after the tribe withdrew its membership from the statewide Alaska Native organization
  
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• Beyond the Music: Decoding the 2025 Superbowl halftime show

  07-05-2025 01:12 via ktoo.org
  
  Culture Rich Conversations Podcast AudioOn this episode of Culture Rich Conversations from Juneau’s Black Awareness Association:On the heels of the 2025 Super Bowl, host Christina Michelle sits down with NAACP Anchorage Chapter President Cheryl Cox-Williams, MC Hohagani Magnetek, and Influencer Darryl Akins.  Together, they go beyond the music to decode the Kendrick Lamar halftime show and its political messages woven throughout. Guests:MC MoHagani Magnetik (Fairbanks) – Po
  
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• On Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Day, loved ones remember Tracy Day

  07-05-2025 00:21 via ktoo.org
  
  Tracy Day’s daughter Kaelyn Schneider hugs MMIP advocate Jamiann S’eiltin Hasselquist at the Kaasei Healing Kootéeyaa on May 5, 2025. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  Monday was Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Day. In Juneau, at events like this one — held in recognition of the epidemic of violence against Indigenous people — one name comes up consistently.
  “I’m here because of Tracy Day,” said Kanaagoot’ Mike Kinville. He help
  
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• Juneau-based artist and author wins Pulitzer Prize for graphic memoir

  06-05-2025 23:07 via ktoo.org
  
  Artist and author Tessa Hulls published the graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts last year. It chronicles her family’s history with political oppression and mental illness. (Photo courtesy of Tessa Hulls)
  A Juneau-based author’s graphic memoir won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for autobiography and memoir. 
  Tessa Hulls spent close to 10 years writing — and drawing — what would become “Feeding Ghosts.” KTOO interviewed Hulls last month about the memoir. 
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• Juneau Assembly moves forward with Telephone Hill demolition plan that would evict residents this fall

  06-05-2025 21:50 via ktoo.org
  
  A preliminary concept drawing of what the Telephone Hill neighborhood redevelopment could look like. (Courtesy of the City and Borough of Juneau)
  The Juneau Assembly chose a preliminary redevelopment plan on Monday night for the downtown Telephone Hill neighborhood that — if approved — would evict residents by Oct. 1. 
  The move marks a major step toward breaking ground after years of planning. But, the city would be asking for evictions before a developer has signed onto the pro
  
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• Mineral exploration company aims to offload mining project near Haines

  06-05-2025 19:50 via ktoo.org
  
  The Palmer project sits near a creek in the Chilkat watershed, pictured above on May 5, 2025. (Avery Ellfeldt/KHNS)
  A controversial mineral exploration project near Haines has been in limbo since its biggest investor backed out late last year. Now, the company that took full ownership wants to step back, too, further complicating the project’s future.
  American Pacific Mining Corp. confirmed last week it plans to distance itself from the zinc, copper, gold, silver and barite exploration sit
  
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• Republicans Nancy Dahlstrom and Click Bishop are first to file for 2026 Alaska governor’s race

  06-05-2025 05:02 via ktoo.org
  
  Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, at left, and former state Sen. Click Bishop, at right, have each filed letters of intent signaling they will run for governor in 2026. (Alaska Beacon file photos)
  Former Republican state Sen. Click Bishop of Fairbanks and Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom are running for governor.
  On Monday, Bishop filed a letter of intent with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, an act that signals his readiness to begin raising money for the 2026 election. Ho
  
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• Newscast – Monday, May 5, 2025

  06-05-2025 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
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  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 funding they planned to use for it was canceled,
  A lawsuit over Juneau’s Mendenhall River levee will now focus on how the cost of the flood protection project will be divided,
  A controversial mining exploration project near Haines
  
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• Mine near Wrangell prompts tribal concerns about Canadian mining regulations

  06-05-2025 02:41 via ktoo.org
  
  The open pits and waste rock pile at Red Chris Mine in the headwaters of the Iskut River, a major tributary of the salmon-bearing Stikine River. (Colin Arisman)
  Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series about the Red Chris Mine in Canada, which could contaminate Southeast Alaska waters. Read Part 1 here.
  Red Chris Mine sits 25 miles from Alaska’s border in the Stikine River Watershed. It has operated for a decade, but its ownership changed two years ago.
  Before the
  
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• KTOO Public Media responds to White House executive order attacking public media funding

  06-05-2025 01:45 via ktoo.org
  
  Last Thursday, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and all federal agencies to cease federal funds, both directly and indirectly, to NPR and PBS.
  It also attempts to restrict how local stations use their independent funding. This action jeopardizes the partnerships and funding that power the trusted journalism, educational programming and public safety messages that local communities rely on every day.
  In response, KTOO President and
  
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• Whittier case poses a larger question: Why can’t these Americans vote?

  05-05-2025 21:42 via ktoo.org
  
  Michael Pese was among 10 Whittier residents charged in April, 2025 with illegal voting. He was born in American Samoa, so he’s a U.S. national but not a citizen. He spoke at at a May 2, 2025 press briefing in Anchorage. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Ten people from Whittier charged with illegal voting made initial court appearances Friday — a routine procedure in a case that has the potential to be anything but.
  The 10 were born in American Samoa. That gives them the unique sta
  
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• Alaska Senate committee’s draft budget has a surplus — and that’s a sign of trouble

  05-05-2025 21:24 via ktoo.org
  
  The Alaska Senate Finance Committee meets on Friday, May 2, 2025. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  On Friday, the Alaska Senate’s finance committee finished work on a draft state operating budget for the coming year and sent the draft ahead to a vote of the full Senate.
  Senators are scheduled to begin debating amendments on Monday, with a vote on the draft expected later in the week.
  The committee’s draft is $384 million less than a version passed by the House in April and $1.7
  
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• Lingít Word of the Week: Xíxch’ — Frog

  05-05-2025 20:57 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A hand holds a wood frog fresh out of winter hibernation. (Photo by Toben Shelby/Alaska Public Media)
  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
  
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• Many Alaska families face political differences. A therapist discusses how to address them.

  05-05-2025 19:48 via ktoo.org
  Caitlin Andrews and Guinness the therapy dog in her office at Oilean Wellbeing in Ketchikan. May 1, 2025. (Jack Darrell/KRBD)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/29Therapy.wav
  Living in America right now can feel like you and your dad are trying to fix a car, but you can’t even agree on where the engine is. And neither one of you can fathom how the other could’ve been so wrong this whole time and still drive a car. So you’re glaring at each other, white-knuckling a
  
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• Trump has buoyed hopes for an Alaska gasline. Is it enough to get it built?

  05-05-2025 19:40 via ktoo.org
  
  An above-ground section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System near the Toolik Field Station in the North Slope Borough. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  Donald Trump’s return to the presidency has buoyed hopes for the 800-mile, $44 billion Alaska LNG pipeline project. And the project has taken some important steps forward in recent months.
  But you’d be forgiven for being skeptical. Alaskans have dreamed for decades of a line that would bring the North Slope’
  
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• As others flee, one Juneau migrant family is hoping to stay amid federal uncertainty

  04-05-2025 21:04 via ktoo.org
  
  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 email from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told them they had to leave.
  But one family who received the email hasn’t left.
  A woman, her husband and teenage daughter fled Venezuela in May 2023 and eventually resettled in Juneau with temporary parole status. She spoke to KTOO
  
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• Mendenhall River levee plaintiffs say they want compensation after judge blocks stop work order

  03-05-2025 23:49 via ktoo.org
  
  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 of flood barriers along Mendenhall River has shifted its goals. The plaintiffs now say they want the city to pay them for building the levee on their land.  
  The shift comes after a judge denied a motion to halt construction of the levee meant to protect hundreds of homes in Mendenhall Valley from annual glacial
  
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• Newscast – Friday, May 2, 2025

  03-05-2025 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  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 as protests surged for International Workers Day, also known as May Day,
  Child advocacy centers in Alaska were funded with federal money for the past decade, but now the state has to foot the bill, and lawmakers are still deciding,
  The
  
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• Alaska State Museum opens ‘In a Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories’

  03-05-2025 02:58 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Juneau Afternoon features the Alaska State Museum opening of “In a Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories,” Juneau Jazz & Classics, SEAGLA May events, and Rotary District Conference keynote speakers who flew around the world in a Cessna 210 to help eradicate polio.Audio PodcastVideo LivestreamLivestream timestamps:
  00:50 Show begins/Intro
  03:13 Rotary members fly around the world to raise funds for polio eradication
  22:45 Alaska State Museum opens “In a Time of Change: Borea
  
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• Bill to create tribally-run public schools progresses through Alaska Legislature

  03-05-2025 01:57 via ktoo.org
  
  Rep. Andi Story, D-Juneau, speaks during a town hall event in the Mendenhall Valley on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A proposal that would create and fund tribally-run public schools inched closer to reality on Thursday. The House Tribal Affairs Committee moved House Bill 59 over to the Education Committee. 
  If the Alaska Legislature passes it, five tribes would get close to $17.5 million for the first year to run pilot programs for tribally-compacted schools acro
  
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• Tlingit and Haida cancels food distribution due to federal funding cuts

  03-05-2025 01:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Hoonah Head Start students try herring eggs. (Courtesy of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska)
  Springtime is herring egg season in Southeast Alaska. Usually that means that the region’s largest tribal government would be setting up to deliver tens of thousands of pounds of the traditional food to tribal citizens across the region and beyond. 
  But this year, those distributions won’t happen. 
  The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida India
  
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• May Day protesters rally for workers’ rights outside the Alaska State Capitol

  03-05-2025 00:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Protesters gather outside the Alaska State Capitol on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/02JUNmayday--1.mp3
  Hundreds of workers in Juneau joined thousands nationwide on Thursday night at protests to mark International Workers Day, also known as May Day. 
  Cardboard signs crumbled and paint dripped as roughly 400 protesters gathered in the rain to call for better working protections and other causes at the Alaska State Capito
  
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• Alaska Senate committee drops proposed 2025 PFD to $1,000 per recipient, an inflation-adjusted low

  02-05-2025 22:40 via ktoo.org
  
  The chairs of the Senate Finance Committee huddle for a discussion after introducing their draft operating budget, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  Amid a severe state budget deficit, the Alaska Senate Finance Committee is proposing the lowest Permanent Fund dividend in five years and — if adjusted for inflation — the lowest dividend ever.
  On Thursday, the committee unveiled a new version of its proposed state operating budget with a $1,000 dividend, a $400 redu
  
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• Want to run for local office in Juneau? This upcoming workshop will show you how.

  02-05-2025 22:39 via ktoo.org
  
  Frank Rue drops his ballot off in the City Hall ballot drop box on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The City and Borough of Juneau will hold its annual How to Run for Local Office workshop this Saturday at City Hall.
  It’s a chance for anyone interested in running for a seat on the Juneau Assembly or School Board to ask questions and learn about what it takes to campaign and serve. The workshop is put on annually by the city, the League of Women Voters and Friends of th
  
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• ‘The buffet is open’: Hooligan, and spring, return to Haines

  02-05-2025 20:06 via ktoo.org
  Gulls feeding on hooligan in April, 2025. (Avery Ellfedlt/KHNS)
  By high tide on Monday, the sky was overcast and spitting rain. Birds circled cacophonously above the Chilkoot River, and sea lions bellowed downstream. Haines resident Sonny Williams was there, too – posted up on the bridge that straddles the river nine miles outside of town.
  They were all there for the same reason: hordes of small black fish wriggling through the current below, a telltale sign of spring. Williams pointed as
  
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• Juneau’s child advocacy center holds Superhero Walk amid funding instability

  02-05-2025 19:51 via ktoo.org
  
  Rex Reid feeds a treat to a dog at the Airport Dike Trail in Juneau on April, 26, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
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  Families, community members and dogs in superhero costumes gathered on the Airport Dike Trail in Juneau on a rare sunny Saturday morning. 
  The Southeast Alaska Family Evaluation – or SAFE – Child Advocacy Center, Juneau Animal Rescue and AWARE, a nonprofit supporting survivors of domestic a
  
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• An email from the federal government split a Juneau refugee family in half

  02-05-2025 03:18 via ktoo.org
  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 from Haiti and fled instability and violence there. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  Fourteen members of Carolou’s family moved to Juneau after fleeing unrest in Haiti. 
  “My country is not doing well right now,” she said.
  Carolou has protected status in the United States, but is using an old family nickn
  
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• The Martime Festival to celebrate Juneau’s maritime history and culture with day long event at Peratrovich Plaza

  02-05-2025 03:01 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Maritime Festival, “Winds in the Spring,” “Wilds Joys” exhibit kick-off May events in Juneau.Audio PodcastVideo LivestreamJuneau Afternoon featuring event previews from Juneau Community Bands, Juneau City Museum, Juneau Commission on Aging, Maritime Festival, and the Blessing of the Fleet.
  Livestream timestamps:00:59 Show begins/intro03:00 Juneau Community Bands “Winds in the Spring”11:40 Juneau-Douglas City Museum “Wild Joys” exhibit22:38 June
  
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