Over the years, several Curious Juneau listeners have asked where Juneau’s recycling goes. A few even wonder if it’s really getting reused, or if some of it ends up in a landfill.
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Newscast – Thursday, April 18, 2024
In this newscast: Scientists and Alaska Native leaders released a report this week claiming plastic waste in the Arctic is contaminating essential resources of Indigenous communities Khalil English shares his research on silverweed, a seemingly inconspicuous plant with deep roots in Pacific Northwest history
Many baby boomers own homes that are too big. Can they be enticed to sell them?
Baby boomer empty nesters own twice as many of the country’s three-bedroom-or-larger homes, compared with millennials with kids.
Alaska Senate rolls out operating budget with roughly $1,300 PFD plus energy relief check
The Senate’s operating budget chair, Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, said the state has been “blessed” the last couple of years by high oil prices. But Stedman warned that high prices won’t last forever.
Peter Pan Seafoods announces it will cease operations
The company has faced mounting troubles, including legal claims from fishermen of back-owed payments for unpaid seafood deliveries.
Conservation groups add land to the Kootznoowoo Wilderness
The vast Tongass National Forest just grew a little bit larger.
Newscast – Wednesday, April 17, 2024
In this newscast: Wrangell’s Nolan Center hosted a screening of Blue Ticket on Monday. It’s a film of a play that KTOO documented back in 2019. The play’s author, Maureen Longworth, documented how gay men in Juneau were exiled from the city in the 1960s. The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community is a collective of Indigenous…
Army Corps of Engineers affirms denial of permit for Pebble Mine
The decision issued Monday is the latest in a long string of legal and administrative rulings against the project.
Dunleavy argues homeschool allotments are an ‘indirect benefit’ to private schools. Lawmakers disagree.
The state plans to appeal the case to the Alaska Supreme Court.
Scientists, Alaska Native leaders say the Arctic faces a growing crisis from plastic waste
The authors of a new report will join representatives from more than 180 other countries to negotiate a United Nations plastics treaty.