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KTOO News Update

KTOO News Update

The day’s local and state news in about 10 minutes.

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Newscast – Friday, Aug. 14, 2026

In this newscast: The Juneau Assembly will decide the fate of Juneau’s current City Hall building at its meeting on Monday night; The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Friday that it will go through a fast bidding process, like the TV show “Shark Tank,” to select an industry partner that will help end Juneau’s glacial outburst floods. This comes just one day after Juneau avoided catastrophe during the annual flood; Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone celebrated Thursday afternoon as the Mendenhall River crested at a level well below initial predictions. The event was much less destructive than disastrous floods that struck over the past three years; At a press conference Thursday evening, Chalyee Éesh Richard Peterson, president of the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, called the glacial outburst flood event “anticlimactic"; Primary Election Day is this Tuesday. Voters can choose which candidates for governor, U.S House and Senate, and their local state legislators will move on to the General Election.

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Newscast – Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026

In this newscast: The National Weather Service issued a glacial outburst flood warning alerting the public that the flood has begun on Tuesday; Sport fisherman in Southeast can catch more king salmon in the region beginning this month; Officials from Fairbanks and the Arctic Winter Games inked an agreement Monday naming the Interior Alaska city as the host for 2028; Flushable wipes are wreaking havoc on Anchorage's wastewater treatment systems.

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Newscast – Monday, Aug. 10, 2026

In this newscast: Forecasters expect the glacial lake responsible for producing Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood to be full this week; The Alaska Beacon reports that a small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour last week to help a 21-foot skiff that ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau; A Juneau nonprofit is among the first announced to be awarded grant funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program. Alaska health officials approved spending $4.5 million dollars worth of a $272 million federal allocation toward more than a dozen  Alaska health care projects last week; After-school childcare is on the agenda for Tuesday night’s school board meeting. The Juneau Board of Education will take a first look at a lease with a local childcare provider to run a program at Sayéik: Gastineau Community School; A Juneau fire captain was charged with domestic violence assault in an incident involving his 12-year-old stepdaughter last summer. Brent Clancy was convicted of that crime and will be sentenced on Thursday. He faces up to five years in prison; Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced that she’ll vote no on Todd Blanche for U.S. attorney general; The Alaska Division of Elections is sending follow-up letters to most of the 3,000 voters it struck from the active voter list this summer.

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Newscast – Friday, August 7, 2026

In this newscast: The Juneau School District is slated to start the school year in two weeks with 10 open elementary teaching positions; An answer to Juneau's plea for a solution to glacial outburst flooding is on the horizon. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said that it will post a request for proposals after the next flood, which is expected to hit any day; Alaska will now regulate its own hazardous waste; If you ask 10 Filipino families in Juneau how to make adobo, chances are you'll hear ten different recipes. KTOO's Elan Chappell spoke with families, chefs, and local businesses to find out why adobo tells a different story in every home

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Newscast – Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026

In this newscast: A Juneau construction company could have to pay $350,000  for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act by dredging and dumping in several wetlands without permits; There are over a thousand manmade stream crossings in the Tongass National Forest that aren't up to standard. But on Prince of Wales Island, in southern Southeast, an environmental nonprofit is replacing a handful of these structures with fish-friendly culverts; In a small fishing town in the Eastern Aleutians, a local family has been serving up scoops of ice cream to locals for decades. The far flung ice-cream shop has changed names and moved locations, but has remained a staple gathering place for King Cove residents.

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Newscast – Wednesday, August 5, 2026

In this newscast:  The University of Alaska is eliminating an out-of-state tuition rate; The building and land that house the Juneau Makerspace on Douglas Island are for sale, but the community workspace isn't closing its doors; A Gustavus family's sailboat suddenly sank in Glacier Bay National Park last week. The family swam to shore, and later learned a humpback whale could be the culprit; The U.S. Forest Service has released the final Record of Decision for a logging project just east of Ketchikan 

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Newscast – Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026

In this newscast: It’s been almost six months since Junior Siufanua was last seen in Juneau. He had been staying at a local shelter for unhoused people before he was reported missing by staff on Feb. 25; Seventeen candidates are running to be Alaska’s next governor. Alaskans are already heading to the polls for early voting in the Aug. 18 nonpartisan, pick-one primary, which will narrow the field to four. It can be tough to pick a favorite in a crowded field, so we’re bringing you interviews with some of the top candidates in the race; Running around or playing pretend are integral parts of summer as a kid. But some children need a more supportive environment to play their own way.

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