https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240913-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The City and Borough of Juneau is asking voters whether or not to take out 12.7 million in bond debt to help replace the radio system that police and firefighters use to communicate. Juneau residents took to the Capitol this week to protest Gov. Mike Dunlea…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240912-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Ballots for Juneau’s local election are being mailed to registered voters Thursday. Landslides are nothing new among Southeast Alaska’s steep mountainsides and heavy rain. But the idea that every few years, another Southeast Alaska community has to dig its …

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240911-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The two law enforcement officers who shot and killed a Juneau man who they say lunged at them with a knife during a standoff earlier this summer will not face criminal charges. Bartlett Regional Hospital’s board of directors has named Joe Wanner as its new …

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240910.wav In this newscast: The Juneau Parks and Recreation Office is moving operations into a downtown building vacated by the Juneau School District Juneau’s city leaders say they’re working with federal partners on strategies to prepare for future floods in the Mendenhall Valley, following a s…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240909-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Douglas Island issues got the spotlight at a Juneau Assembly candidate forum on Sunday New research hopes to find ways for bears and people to coexist more peacefully in Juneau A clinical mental health counselor in Sitka shares the unexpected upside of bein…

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” ba…

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 weeke…

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…

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 bann…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/20240829-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A new partnership between a cruise ship company and a local Alaska Native corporation aims to improve internet in the downtown area during the cruise season, Juneau’s Echo Ranch Bible Camp is among the places where a California man allegedly abused boys ove…