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12/25/2024

Thank you for listening, reading, watching and supporting our work this year. From everyone at KTOO, we’re wishing you a happy holiday season and a safe and healthy start to 2025.

Pictured, from left to right: Audience Engagement Editor Adelyn Baxter, Morning Host Mike Lane, Managing Editor Claire Stremple, City Reporter Clarise Larson and History & Justice Reporter Yvonne Krumrey.

(Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)

12/24/2024

A dissenting report and a potential motion for reconsideration may put some hurdles in front of plans for Hoonah residents to vote on the proposed borough this summer.

The City of Gustavus may file a request for reconsideration of the commission’s decision to approve the Xunaa Borough proposal.

12/24/2024

Juneau's Drag Mother, Gigi Monroe, says watching performers evolve their drag and their performances has been one of the highlights of leading the community.

This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond. When Gigi Monroe started Juneau

12/24/2024

Just after he vowed to repatriate the Panama Canal from Panama, Trump turned to a discussion of the mountain’s former namesake, 19th-century President William McKinley from Ohio.

(From Alaska Public Media)

The president-elect’s comments drew pushback from Alaska’s U.S. senators.

12/24/2024

Tune in for the best public radio show of the year!

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12/24/2024

Bartlett Regional Hospital Chief Nursing Officer Kim McDowell said the city looked at similar models across the country when it developed the program.

The team is made up of a Capital City Fire Rescue paramedic and a Bartlett Regional Hospital clinician. Crisis care consists of immediate response to a situation or crisis, further assessment of the…

12/24/2024

SEARHC has absorbed many small practices in recent years as it expands its reach across Southeast Alaska.

Southeast Medical Clinic will join SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium in April of next year.

12/24/2024

This week’s word is s’igeidí, or beaver.

Listen to the audio here or all week on the radio to learn how to say s’igeidí.

This week’s word is sʼigeidí, which means beaver.

12/23/2024

A bill that would repeal the windfall elimination provision and government pension offset — and, in effect, increase some 15,000 Alaskans’ Social Security benefits — is headed for President Biden’s desk and is expected to become law.

(From Alaska Public Media)

The bill would repeal benefit reductions affecting people who spent part of their career working for an employer not participating in Social Security, like the state of Alaska.

12/23/2024

Rain and snow showers have impacted the Pacific Northwest since Saturday, while in the Northeast and areas around the Great Lakes, cold air from the Arctic has sent temperatures plunging.

(From NPR)

More than 119 million people are expected to travel for Christmas and Hanukkah through the New Year, a figure that would break a travel record set in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic, according…

12/23/2024

Need a last minute gift for the public radio fan in your life? Check out our bonfire page for t-shirts, crewnecks and sweatshirts celebrating 50 years of public radio in Juneau.

Celebrate 50 years with KTOO with just a small selection of our favorite artwork from over the years.

12/23/2024

Friday on Juneau Afternoon, musicians Taylor Dallas Vidic and Josh Colosky performed some holiday tunes and guests shared updates from UAS and CBJ Parks and Rec.

Juneau Afternoon airs at 3:00 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK with a rebroadcast at 7:00 p.m. Listen online or subscribe to the podcast.

On this episode: Musicians Taylor Dallas Vidic and Josh Colosky will be appearing around Juneau in a variety of music offerings, including "An Auke Bay Holiday" at Forbidden Peak Brewery on Sat, Dec.…

12/23/2024

The bargaining deadlock is centered around compensation and benefits. Union President Jill Dumesnil pointed to high costs of living, particularly in Southeast Alaska.

(From Alaska Beacon)

Bargaining parties say they’re hopeful, though the outcome will depend on funding being included in the next state budget .

12/23/2024

The dispute between the federal and state education departments had escalated over the past year. But on Friday, the U.S. Department of Education abruptly reversed course.

(From Anchorage Daily News)

For months, the federal education agency said Alaska had not funded schools equitably during the pandemic, which was a condition of receiving $359 million in federal education funding.

12/21/2024

The club was started this year by local chess players who wanted more opportunities for in-person competition. Thursday's tournament was their seventh so far.

The club was started this year by players who wanted more opportunities for in-person competition.

12/20/2024

At a meeting Thursday evening, Juneau residents reacted to the city's proposal to raise water and sewer rates by more than 50% over the next five years.

The city’s utility division proposes increasing the flat residential water rate by just over 10% starting next July and each year until 2029. The proposed sewer increase is nearly 13% each year.

12/20/2024

The whales and other marine mammals killed in fishing gear are subjects of what is known as bycatch, the unintended, incidental catch of species that are not the harvest target.

(From Alaska Beacon)

Responses to Freedom of Information Act requests about bycatch included blurry photos and blacked-out text that conceal important details, Oceana’s lawsuit says.

12/20/2024

It’s a defeat in the Dunleavy administration’s push to take control of federal lands in the state.

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor says that the state is disappointed in the decision and is evaluating its next steps in the case.