KTOO News Department

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Thane Road will be closed March 12, 2009, beginning at 10:00 a.m., as the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities conducts another avalanche control. As KTOO’s Rebecca Sheir reports, people in downtown Juneau ought to prepare themselves… and their ears.

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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 six times each morning during Morning Edition and Day to Day.

Alaska Airlines has begun offering wireless internet service on one of its jets. But it will be about a year before Wi-Fi is available on most in-state routes.

A state economist says Southeast Alaska will lose about 350 jobs this year. That’s more than three times last year’s job loss, but still less than one percent of the region’s employment.Related Link: Read the report, in the January “Trends.”

PACE/Paul Staso – Youth Development – Science Fair – INternational All-Star Circus

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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 six times each morning during Morning Edition and Day to Day.

An omnibus spending bill before Congress cuts money used to support logging in Southeast Alaska. Senator Lisa Murkowski is trying to put it back.