KTOO News Department

A proposition on the August 27th statewide primary election ballot may cause some confusion for Alaska voters. We take a look at the proposal for preferential voting. Then, state webmaster Andy Kline joins us in the studio for a discussion about some of the websites that will be available this election season. You can check…

The latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom, CoastAlaska stations, wire services, the Alaska Public Radio Network, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and can be heard as often as five times each morning during Morning Edition.

The latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom, CoastAlaska stations, wire services, the Alaska Public Radio Network, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and can be heard as often as five times each morning during Morning Edition.

Many Alaskans are completely unaware of the part Navy Lt. Goerge Thornton Emmons played in the state’s history. He collected thousand of Tlingit artifacts and was the one person who convinced President Theodore Roosevelt to create the forerunner of the Tongass National Forest.

The latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom, CoastAlaska stations, wire services, the Alaska Public Radio Network, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and can be heard as often as five times each morning during Morning Edition. This audio file is a compilation of two separate newscasts.

We go back to the garden of Master Garderner Ed Buyarski for some ideas about making cuttings of flowering plants for seed collection. This segment was taped in June, so now may be a good time to collect seeds in those higher elevations mentioned by Buyarski.