https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240524-News-Update.wav In this newscast: A group of paddlers from Kasaan prepare for a 10-day, over 250-mile journey to Juneau for Celebration in canoes they carved themselves, making stops in communities like Wrangell and Petersburg along the way. Alaskans looking to invest in solar panels or oth…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240523-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Members of Juneau’s Assembly decided to lower the city’s property tax rate next year, Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola introduced two bills that aim to reduce the number of salmon that the pollock fleet catches by accident, Leaders from Ketchikan’s Indigen…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240522-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: One Juneau inventor hopes to tap into the power of the ocean with a small tidal generator that’s poised to hit the market next year, Alaska’s governor could soon sign a bill into law that would establish a task force to look into the economic crisis facing …

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240521-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Security footage posted online shows Anchorage police killing an armed man last week, but a witness who owns the camera says her footage contradicts what officers say happened in the lead up to the shooting, The first Alaska woman has been elected to the Na…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240520-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: An electric pole in Ketchikan caught fire late last month and sent Ketchikan, Petersburg, and Wrangell into a blackout. The three grids – which are interconnected – went dark for a few hours. That smoldering electric pole was symptomatic of a much larger, d…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20230517-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: AKPM’s Eric Stone reports on the dozens of bills passed as lawmakers concluded their work this legislative session. Injured commercial fishermen and boat owners in Alaska will now be able to access higher insurance reimbursements, thanks to a senate bill pa…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20230516-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: An affordable housing project built specifically for people in recovery from substance misuse received funding support from the Juneau Assembly this week. KTOO reporter Anna Canny sought out where ravens roost in Juneau in this week’s Curious Juneau episode…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240515-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Ketchikan community members are pushing back against the planned construction of a market downtown which would feature two totem poles made by a non-Native Minnesota artist with a checkered past, A look at what’s planned for this years Little Norway Festiva…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240514-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly approved the school district’s more than $85 million budget for next school year last night, Budget negotiators in the Alaska Legislature have settled on the amount of this year’s Permanent Fund dividend and energy relief check, Since st…

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240513-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Alaska lawmakers passed a bill last week that adds several Indigenous languages to Alaska’s official list of languages, One People Canoe Society visited Wrangell in early spring to teach residents how to make traditional Lingít paddles. This class was the …