KTOO News Department

In this newscast: Douglas Island issues got the spotlight at a Juneau Assembly candidate forum on Sunday; new research hopes to find ways for bears and people to coexist more peacefully in Juneau; and a clinical mental health counselor in Sitka shares the unexpected upside of being out of touch thanks to the community’s ongoing internet outage. 

In this newscast: Juneau Police Department say they will release body camera footage from July’s fatal police shooting early next week, along with findings from the Alaska Office of Special Prospecutions Investigation into the incident; The Alaska Democratic Party is suing the state’s Division of Elections to remove Eric Hafner, a canidate running from the confines of a federal prison in New York State.

In this newscast: Homeowners in the Mendenhall Valley are cleaning up and making repairs after last month’s record-breaking glacial outburst flood. They say it’s hard to know what kind of flood mitigation will protect them next year; Advocates for the “Ship Free Saturday” ballot initiative hope try to drum up support before the fall election.

In this newscast: A state agency that’s been awarding annual grants to Alaska libraries cut some of its stipend this year, and smaller rural libraries may suffer; For Tongass Voices, Nutaaq Doreen Simmonds is an Inupiaq actor starring in “Cold Case” a play opening this weekend at Perserverance Theater. 

In this newscast: A widespread internet outage in Sitka continued into the weekend; Underwater anthropologist Kelly Monteleone kicks off Sealaska Heritage Institute’s fall lecture series this week; A new project helps provides communities with data on their local permafrost and erosion risks. 

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Heavy rainfall is coming to Southeast Alaska this weekend, beginning Friday afternoon,

An advocacy group is telling Juneau residents to vote no on a proposition set to appear on the local ballot this fall. It’s about whether large cruise ships should be banned on Saturdays starting next year,
Sitka continued to experience a wide internet and cell service outage Friday Despite the outage, a Sitka search and rescue ended successfully,
Dr. Gabriel Wolken on how landslides are often the result of a complicated series of events

In this newscast: A new partnership between a cruise ship company and a local Alaska Native corporation aims to improve internet in the downtown area during the cruise season; Juneau’s Echo Ranch Bible Camp is among the places where a California man allegedly abused boys over the span of decades, according to a recent lawsuit. Now, the people who say they were victims of Bradley Earl Reger are trying to hold the institutions where the abuse took place accountable; More than three dozen entities have called on the Biden Administration and the EPA to ban the use of technology that uses water to flush out harmful chemicals from a ship’s exhaust at the national level; Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola and challenger Nick Begich vied for the support of the oil industry at a candidates’ forum in Anchorage

In this newscast: Teams of scientists, engineers and meteorologists continue their work assessing the steep hillside in Ketchikan following Sunday’s fatal landslide; The annual State of the Climate report is out; Officials say the Covenant House youth homeless shelter in Anchorage helps young people with skills to live on their own; Climate change is altering where wild berries grow in Alaska, and when, so researchers are gathering data

In this newscast: US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has finalized a decision to maintain protections for 28 million acres of wilderness lands across Alaska, known as “D-1” lands; Ketchikan residents describe a chaotic scene in the minutes and hours after a landslide ripped through a residential neighborhood; A new study released by NOAA deepens the connection between human-caused climate change and the die-off of Bering Sea snow crabs; Tongass Voices: Sh Dei Wooteen Jeni Brown on speaking up — “Everybody has a warrior inside them”

In this newscast:  Southeast Alaska health officials say cases of pertussis, commonly called whooping cough, are up in Juneau; Emergency crews responded to a large landslide that killed one person and destroyed several houses in Ketchikan on Sunday; A bellweather trial is began today in a fight over whether the parent companies of two Alaska grocery chains can merge; Petersburg residents are ramping up their efforts to track and combat the invasive European green crabs; Southeast Alaska’s king salmon sport fishery is closed, effective Monday through the end of September