KTOO News Department

In this newscast: The Juneau School District has fewer students enrolled this year than it previously projected; The Juneau Assembly is slated to vote on an ordinance on Monday that would require nonprofits to charge sales tax for goods and services – something they’re currently exempt from; Capital City Fire/Rescue’s Andrew Pantiskas talks about a new app that aims to cut the department’s response time to cardiac events; The Alaska Democratic Party is urging a Superior Court judge to disqualify a Republican state House candidate who submitted a nearly blank financial disclosure form when he filed to run for an Anchorage seat; The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public comment regarding a cruise ship dock project in Petersburg.

In this newscast: Black bears feasted at Juneau’s dump all summer after the company that owns it took down a portion of the wildlife fence for construction; A Lingít opera, nearly a decade in the making, is debuting in Juneau this Friday; More young people in Alaska died of suicide in 2025 than in any other year in the past decade; A University of Alaska Southeast student used music to present data collected from a watershed in Juneau.

In this newscast: The union representing support staff at the Juneau School District is scheduled to go to trial in February; The Skagway ferry terminal is on track to reopen on Thursday, nearly a month after state ferry service to the popular tourist destination stopped abruptly in mid-August; The Arctic Report Card has found a new group of supporters; Joel Jackson, longtime Haida and Lingít advocate and president of the Organized Village of Kake, died in August at age 70.

In this newscast: Alaska’s criminal appeals court has thrown out an indictment of a Whittier woman born in American Samoa who state prosecutors accused of felony voter misconduct three years ago; Republican Treg Taylor is back in Alaska’s race for governor; A new tribally-led housing complex in Ketchikan will begin welcoming tenants this month; Tongass Voices: Ed Littlefield on composing a Lingit opera