KTOO News Department

In this newscast:

• Juneau’s cold weather emergency shelter opens tonight,
• Researchers presented new preliminary data on how the ice contributed this summer’s record-breaking flood in the Mendenhall Valley and shared their ideas about how that could change in the future,
• Juneau School District Superintendent Frank Hauser is resigning,
• Juneau saw at least five backcountry deaths this summer, many were cruise tourists or visitors,
• Alaska has joined more than half of the country in creating artificial intelligence guidance for education as it becomes a larger part of the school day

In this newscast:

• A power outage hit all of Juneau today just after 11 a.m.,
• The city clerk’s office released another batch of results from Juneau’s municipal election today that include ballots cast on Election Day,
• The former Juneau police officer who slammed a man to the ground during an arrest this summer will not face criminal charges,
• At least three people are still missing and 51 have been rescued following a record-breaking storm that slammed into the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Sunday,
• The Norwegian Encore departs Juneau this evening. It’s the last cruise ship of the year, and it marks the end of a nearly 200-day tourism season,
• In a ceremony held on Indigenous People’s Day Monday, clan leaders and carvers dedicated the latest pole in Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Kooteeyaa Deiyi, Juneau’s totem pole trail

In this newscast:

• A grand jury indicted a Juneau man on two counts of felony assault for allegedly injuring two Juneau Police officers earlier this month
• Floodwaters have receded in Kotzebue and other western Alaska communities after a storm, but another is coming
• The Department of Education and Early Development backtracked on its initial recommendation that would have limited how much money local governments can give schools
• Some Alaskan’s are pushing for cruise ships to burn cleaner fuels that don’t pollute the ocean
• An Anchorage man detained by ICE has been released after a ruling in a class action lawsuit

In this newscast:

• Out-of-state undergraduate students at the University of Alaska Southeast will see lower tuition rates beginning next fall,
• Nearly 100 large whales were reported entangled around the U.S. in 2024, almost a 50% increase from 2023,
• Funding for a program subsidizing rural air travel is set to continue through early November despite the ongoing government shutdown,
• Tongass Voices: Ldaan.aat Laurie Cropley and Yuxgitsiy George Holly on making space for tribal values

In this newscast:

• Preliminary results are in for Juneau’s 2025 municipal election.
• No developers have bitten on 200 acres of city land upzoned for denser housing on Douglas Island and in Auke Bay.
• The interim superintendent for Ketchikan’s school district submitted her letter of resignation months into the job.
• Some Alaskans feel they don’t have a meaningful say in the process as a proposed gold mine in Canada goes through its environmental assessment.

In this newscast:

• Today is municipal Election Day and the KTOO newsroom was around town to chat with voters about their thoughts on the election,
• The state of Alaska is in the throes of studying what it would take to build a road that would better connect Juneau, Haines and Skagway, and the Dept. of Transportation held open house-style meetings last week to inform the public, and get community feedback,
• Top state lawmakers say they are investigating why $50 million from the state’s primary savings account was invested in an outside private equity fund,
• A Fairbanks man has a unique antidote to his winter blues: balloon art