KTOO News Department

In this newscast:

• Tomorrow is Veterans Day and there are several ceremonies honoring veterans in Juneau,
• Juneau’s avalanche forecasters are gearing up for winter,
• The state of Alaska is limiting payments to SNAP recipients this week in response to federal guidance,
• Dozens of elders and youth from around Alaska learned how to process a seal at a workshop last month

In this newscast:

• The delay in SNAP benefit payments has driven Juneau residents to worry that their next meal isn’t guaranteed, and local organizations are stepping up their efforts to fill the gaps,
• The University of Alaska Board of Regents approved increasing tuition across the board by 4% next year,
• Fishing jobs in Alaska are down for the fifth year in a row, according to new economic data from the state Department of Labor for the year 2024,
• Cruise ships are relatively new to Prince of Wales Island, and not all residents are happy to have them

In this newscast:

• Alaska might soon regulate its own hazardous waste if authorized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Haines and Skagway are among the communities across Alaska are doing what they can to support the more than one thousand people displaced by Typhoon Halong.
• The largest community in the North Slope Borough has a new grocery store.
• College Gate Elementary School now have 70 new students who evacuated from Western Alaska communities after ex-typhoon Halong last month.

In this newscast:

• The Juneau Assembly doesn’t plan to take a stance on whether it’s in favor of the state’s proposed Cascade Point Ferry Terminal north of Juneau.
• Five firefighter apprentices in Juneau received their pins on Saturday — that means the formally joined the force.
• Renters living in Juneau’s Telephone Hill neighborhood had until Saturday to vacate their homes before the city would have evicted them.
• The Juneau Assembly is hoping to avoid paying a portion of the cost for a federal program that would offer buyouts to residents living on the street hardest-hit by the city’s annual glacial outburst flood.
• People who rely on food assistance from SNAP, the Supplemental nutrition Assistance Program, could have their electronic benefits cards refilled as soon as this week.
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently canceled its contract with the entity that collects much of the data on earthquake and tsunami signals.

In this newscast:

• Thousands of Juneau residents will be in limbo as of tomorrow, as the SNAP program remains caught in a political battle between Congress, the Trump administration, and federal courts,
• Juneau schools are finding ways to support students and families in the midst of the government shutdown,
• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced last night that it will pay the full cost to extend and repair Juneau’s temporary levee meant to protect almost all Mendenhall Valley neighborhoods from glacial outburst floods in the near-term,
• The competitive commercial red king crab fishery in Southeast Alaska opens tomorrow, and it will be the first of its kind in eight years

In this newscast:

• The Juneau School Board swore in three members and honored two outgoing members at a meeting Tuesday,
• Though Alaskans approved ranked-choice voting nearly 5 years ago, the debate about whether it actually benefits voters persists. At a Chamber of Commerce luncheon this afternoon, two speakers shared what they think of the system,
• Juneau’s new hydroelectric utility passed one of its last hurdles this week toward expanding the capital city’s energy grid,
• A beloved maintenance employee at the University of Alaska Southeast starred in a low-budget sci-fi comedy a decade ago. This week, some UAS students screened the film to honor their friendly campus handy-man