KTOO News Update

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The fate of Juneau School District’s universal free breakfast program remains uncertain after the Board of Education delayed a decision yesterday, Huna Totem Corporation shareholders adopted open enrollment last week at the village corporation’s annual meeting, Dozens of Juneau residents gathered outside Senator Dan Sullivan’s office today to implore him to consider Alaskan’s reliance on Medicaid, Some key Alaska state legislators are pushing back on the Republican budget package known as the “big, beautiful bill,” Subsistence hunting isn’t rare in western Alaska, but one recent...

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The City and Borough of Juneau has a new emergency manager. A mandate to sell millions of acres of Public Land was struck from the Republican budget reconciliation bill that’s moving through the U.S. Senate this week, but some parcels of land might make it back into the bill. Gov. Mike Dunleavy told lawmakers Wednesday he had vetoed a bill that would have sharply limited payday loans in Alaska. A Haines guide died on Sunday during a non-work-related rafting trip on the Blanchard and Tatshenshini Ri...

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The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development has opened the public comment period for a proposed regulation change that redefines what counts as a local contribution for school districts, A cargo ship carrying thousands of vehicles that caught fire off of the Western Aleutians sank Monday amid salvage operations in the North Pacific Ocean, Skagway officials agreed to send a response protesting the plan to build a ferry terminal north of Juneau’s current terminal, A Klukwan mother and son travelled to Washington D.C. to pr...

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The Coalition for Education Equity is preparing to sue the state over what it says is inadequate funding for public schools in Alaska, The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced plans to rescind the Roadless Rule yesterday, Tongass Voices: Olga Sofia Lijó Seráns on a Juneau bookstore’s 50-year legacy, A new federal report says the group overseeing the 800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline System needs to update its operations

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The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, which oversees federal fisheries off Alaska’s coast, is scaling back operations due to federal funding uncertainties. A man died after falling roughly 150 near Salmon Creek Dam in Juneau on Saturday. Record breaking rainfall caused the water supply for the blind Slough Hydroelectric Plant near Petersburg to spill over. Attorneys allege the Alaska Department of Corrections is violating federal standards while holding dozens of immigration detainees. The community of Kwethluk burst with activity as Orthodox pilgrims from across the world honored th...

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The Juneau Independent, a new web-based newsroom in Juneau, launched today with a mission to offer a newspaper that is locally owned and operated. A Juneau court declared a woman who has been missing for six years legally dead Tuesday, at the request of her family. The woman’s case was never solved. They sought the death declaration in the hopes of getting a chance to ask police about their investigation in front of an official audience, but that didn’t happen. Invasive species are everywhere… but the fol...

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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 the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska released a draft risk assessment for the capital city on Tuesday. Petersburg’s Borough Assembly on Monday approved limiting the town’s senior sales tax exemption to just low-income seniors. But before any change can be made official, the townspeople will have the final say. For a few weeks in February, Safety Roadhouse hosts Iditar...

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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 Juneau Police Department cleared a homeless encampment on the side of a Mendenhall Valley road this morning, The National Weather Service issued Juneau’s first recorded severe thunderstorm warning yesterday afternoon after conditions escalated and a cruise ship partially broke free from its moorings, The special election to determine whether or not to form the Xunaa Borough will be paused until further no...

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The Juneau chapter of St. Vincent de Paul will have a new executive director in July, One of Eaglecrest Ski Area’s four chairlifts is permanently closed, Nearly 2,000 Juneauites joined hundreds of thousands of people across the country to protest President Trump and his polices, Juneau will officially have a second electric utility that is poised to expand the capital city’s renewable energy capacity, but only if the company can finance and build its proposed hydroelectric project before its federal license expires, A Petersburg senior was targ...

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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 a line-item veto, Juneau’s fire department is piloting a paid internship program this year that equips locals with certifications and skills needed to work in the field, A shipping container full of empty industrial-sized fish food bags fell off a barge heading from Baranof Island to the landfill in Petersburg and dozens of the plastic bags have washed up nea...