Player FM - Internet Radio Done Right
Checked 10m ago
Hozzáadva nyolc éve
Content provided by KTOO Public Media. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by KTOO Public Media or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast App
Go offline with the Player FM app!
Go offline with the Player FM app!
KTOO News Update
Mark all (un)played …
Manage series 1326436
Content provided by KTOO Public Media. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by KTOO Public Media or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
The latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom in Juneau.
…
continue reading
11 episodes
Mark all (un)played …
Manage series 1326436
Content provided by KTOO Public Media. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by KTOO Public Media or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
The latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom in Juneau.
…
continue reading
11 episodes
모든 에피소드
×https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2020212-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Carney defended the court system’s work and laid out plans for the future in a speech to state lawmakers, Juneau’s Visitor Industry Director Alix Pierce shared data from an annual tourism survey that shows the conversation about the future of tourism’s growth is far from over, An education compact is an agreement between tribal and state governments that allows tribes to run their own public schools, and Alaska’s Department of Education and Early Development is working with tribes to kick start a compacting program and give tribes sovereignty over education, Alaska State Troopers arrested a Metlakatla man last week on six felony charges of sexual abuse of a minor, and they believe he may have had other victims…
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250211-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A team of researchers in Alaska have banded together to investigate a famous Alaska shipwreck. The Star of Bengal sank off the coast of Prince of Wales Island in 1908, taking more than 100 lives with it. The shipwreck highlighted a stark racial inequality in Alaska at the time– most of those who died were Asian cannery workers. Members of a 2022 expedition to the site of the wreck are going back in May. In this episode of Tongass Voices, team members Gig Decker and Jenya Anichtchenko share what they hope to uncover. As lawmakers continue to work through an education funding package, members of the House are turning to another priority for the session: reforming the retirement system for state and local government employees. Alaska Public Media’s Eric Stone has this look at a bill that would return public-sector workers to a defined benefit pension system.…
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250210-News-Update.wav In this newscast: The 2025 Native Youth Olympics Junior Celebration took place over the weekend in Juneau. Elementary school students from across the borough competed in events like the seal hop, two-foot high kick, Inuit stick pull and more. The Alaska Senate passed a bill today that would allow teenagers to serve alcohol at restaurants. The bill would lower the minimum age to serve alcohol from 21 to 18. The second annual Juneau Jazz Festival packed nearly thirty performances, workshops and events related to jazz in four days.…
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250207-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Alaska Senate unanimously joined the state House this morning in urging President Donald Trump to reverse his decision to rename North America’s tallest peak as Mount McKinley, Searchers found the missing Bering Air plane on the sea ice southeast of Nome, but they did not find any survivors, A lawsuit that clouded the future of homeschooling in Alaska for months last spring took on new life yesterday after the plaintiffs asked a judge to join four school districts as defendants in the long-running case, Ketchikan is now officially classified as rural in the eyes of federal subsistence regulations, after a historic, landmark decision by the Federal Subsistence Board overruled a recent vote by the Regional Advisory Council to keep Ketchikan’s status as nonrural, One of Alaska’s most famous contemporary bands Portugal. The Man, along with Samantha Crain and Ya Tseen sold out two shows this weekend to raise money for an effort to rebuild a Kiks.adi clan house in Sitka…
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250206-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Juneau city officials have proposed a multi-million dollar wastewater bond package to offset utility rate hikes, Ketchikan’s local governments are pursuing a new sales tax on cruise ship passengers, The U.S. Forest Service has completed assessment reports on over 20 topics that will inform how the Tongass National Forest will be managed in decades to come. The last time the Forest Service studied the Tongass this deeply, the movie Titanic was hitting the screens, Delta Junction residents will soon have to make a decision about whether, and how, they’ll restore emergency medical services to their community, after the city’s only ambulance service, Delta Medical Transport, announced that it will stop providing services to the city…
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250205-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Lawmakers are working to hammer out a compromise on an education bill that could avoid the governor’s veto, FBI agents in Anchorage participated in a nationwide immigration crackdown under President Trump last weekend, but local groups, including the Anchorage School District, are pushing back, More than 100 Juneau residents took to the sidewalk across the street from the Alaska State Capitol this afternoon to join a nationwide protest against President Donald Trump’s administration and its recent executive orders, Tongass Voices: Tamara Wilson on her museum installation and the slinkies that live there…
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250204-News-Update.wav In this newscast: Alaska nonprofit face immense uncertainty due to the Trump administration’s pause on federal grants and loans, The City and Borough of Juneau will move forward with a controversial plan to mitigate glacial outburst floods in the Mendenhall Valley, Members of Juneau’s chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters union spoke out again about the lack of competitive wages leading to staffing shortages in Juneau, and as contract negotiations begin, first responders are asking the city for relief, Lawmakers are pushing Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration to release drafts of a statewide salary study submitted by a human resources consultant…
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250203-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A teenager was fatally shot at a roundabout in Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley early this morning, The Alaska Board of Fisheries is entering its second week of deliberations on Southeast Alaska fishing regulations in Ketchikan, and this week is about salmon and herring, The state regulatory group will take up herring proposals this week and it could adopt changes to how the Sitka Sound Sac Roe herring fishery is managed, Alaskans testified overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would boost per-student funding at a meeting of the House Education Committee last week, and KCAW stopped by Sitka’s legislative office to speak to those there who testified, NOAA has released a new catalogue that chronicles more than 100 species of seaweed commonly found in Alaska, which will serve as an important resource as Alaska works to get in on kelp products…
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250131-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Portugal. the Man, Ya Tseen and Samantha Crain are performing in Southeast Alaska this weekend to fundraise for the Point House Revitalization Project, Alaska Folk Festival leadership announced that the guest artists for the 50th festival will be Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, Gov. Mike Dunleavy unveiled his own education bill this morning, setting the stage for negotiations with legislative leaders, The Skagway Assembly voted last month to collect sales tax on the full price of tours sold, but across Lynn Canal, Haines is worried the changes could impact their economy…
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/20250130-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Alaska students posted some of the lowest scores in the country in national reading and math test results that were released yesterday, State regulators have fined proponents of the 2024 ranked choice repeal ballot measure nearly $157,000 for what officials called “egregious and widespread” violations of campaign finance laws, Officials in Alaska are still scrambling to understand the impact of a Trump Administration freeze that halts spending on infrastructure project — one that came before the memo that froze federal grants and loans this week, This week, Juneau is seeing some snow after a winter that hasn’t gotten nearly as much as usual, and skiers are taking advantage of it…
Welcome to Player FM!
Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.