Newscasts

In this newscast:

• The Juneau School Board held off returning about $1 million in funding earmarked for childcare to the City and Borough of Juneau amid questions about the current privately-run program,
• Alaska’s capital city will soon have a new fire chief,
• A local master Chilkat and Ravenstail weaver has been awarded a national fellowship that bolsters culture and tradition across the United States,
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day is coming up on Monday, and there are two events honoring the day in Juneau,
• Hundreds of health care workers and government officials descended on Anchorage this week for the kickoff of a five-year, $1.3 billion program aimed at reimagining medical care across Alaska

In this newscast:

• The Juneau School District Board of Education agreed to approve the $180,000 in funding to help pay for a new playground at the Dzantik’i Heeni campus in Lemon Creek,
• Southeast Alaska’s largest tribe has earned nearly $40 million from U.S. Navy contracts in Guantanamo Bay,
• KTOO is checking in with members of Juneau’s legislative delegation to talk priorities, predictions, and plans for the session. Up first, Sen. Jesse Kiehl

In this newscast:

• Residents living in avalanche-prone downtown neighborhoods got the all-clear to return home today after the city lifted its last remaining evacuation advisory this morning,
• Avalanche risk rose over the weekend, as more snow and then rain pounded Juneau. Meanwhile, staff at the city’s emergency warming shelter for unhoused residents relocated operations three times in two days,
• A Juneau-born athlete is headed to Italy next month to represent Team USA’s biathlon team in the 2026 Olympic Winter Games,
• A small population of grizzly bears makes its home above the Arctic Circle, but not much is known about them, or how they find enough food to survive the extreme winters

In this newscast:

• An evacuation advisory remains in effect for Juneau’s Behrends avalanche path downtown for a fifth day, but now the City & Borough of Juneau’s evacuation alert is using more urgent language,
• The cost to move Juneau’s City Hall is coming in millions of dollars higher than expected,
• A 10-year-old Bethel cold case murder spotlights faults in Alaska justice system,
• The United States Supreme Court has once again declined to take up challenges to a federal law that protects subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska

In this newscast:

• An atmospheric river struck Juneau over the weekend, after previous back-to-back storms buried the city in several feet of snow,
• The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska recently launched a new foundation,
• For the first time, Juneau is using a radar detection system to track avalanches that rumble down the mountain, thanks to state money freed up by the city and tribe’s disaster declaration last week,
• Democrat Mary Peltola announced this morning that she’s running for U.S. Senate, taking on Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan,
• Alaska Public Media’s Eric Stone takes a look at the first wave of new bills for the coming legislative session

In this newscast:

• The City and Borough of Juneau issued an avalanche evacuation advisory for all residents in slide zones this morning. The advisory comes as an atmospheric river slams Juneau, after previous storms dumped several feet of snow,
• As snow turned to rain in Juneau today, the city is warning residents that roads are beginning to flood, and the snow on roofs is getting heavier,
• The City and Borough of Juneau has largely wrapped up shoveling on Sít’ Eetí Shaanáx – Glacier Valley Elementary School and began work on Mendenhall River Community School today,
• The general manager of Juneau’s Eaglecrest Ski Area has resigned and the chair of its board of directors has stepped down,
• Several caribou herds in Alaska’s Arctic are on a decline, including now the Porcupine herd, which is currently the biggest