Alaska House debuts new first-draft budget, but PFD and school funding are question marks
Members of the Alaska House Finance Committee discuss their first-draft budget on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska …
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Newscast – Tuesday, Mach 12, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024312-News-Update-.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau School District’s current school closure plan would have it vacate three city-owned buildings: the district …
City considers moving City Hall to vacant Juneau School District buildings
Juneau City Manager Katie Koester speaks at an Assembly Committee of the Whole meeting on Monday, March 11, 2024. (Clarise …
Newscast – Monday, March 11, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/20240311-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The Juneau School Board will reconsider a school closure plan it approved last month to help …
Leading Alaska legislators propose task force to help rescue a seafood industry ‘in a tailspin’
Fishing boats line a dock at Kodiak’s St. Paul Harbor on Oct. 3. A variety of winches are seen on …
Federal appeals court hears Anchorage port case with up to $367M on the line
A truck passes near the Port of Alaska on Jan. 25, 2021. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) A panel of federal …
Newscast – Thursday, March 7, 2024
https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/20240307-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: Most property assessments in Juneau didn’t change much from last year, according to preliminary data from …
Ageism in health care is more common than you might think, and it can harm people
Dr. Louise Aronson, a geriatrician and author, speaks with a patient at UCSF’s Osher Center for Integrative Health in San …
Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 Max 9 jet, NTSB says
A unfinished Boeing 737 Max sits outside Boeing’s manufacturing facility in Renton, Wash., on Feb. 27, 2024. The top federal …
Scientists take a step closer to resurrecting the woolly mammoth
Could woolly mammoths walk again among humans? Scientists are working to resurrect the extinct species. (Mark Garlick/Getty Images/Science Photo Library) …