Between 2024 and 2025, 1,740 more people moved out of Alaska than moved here. It was the 13th consecutive year of negative net migration in Alaska, extending the longest streak of negative net migration since 1945. (From @alaskabeacon.com)

At a community town hall event Thursday evening, Juneau Sen. Jesse Kiehl said the governor’s sales tax proposal, as written, would override Juneau’s local exemptions.

Yesterday on Juneau Afternoon, guests previewed Saturday's WorldQuest 2026, Dave Wetzel's “Atmospheric Landscapes” exhibition at the City Museum and Pete Griffin's Fireside Lecture on his career with the U.S. Forest Service. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK with a rebroadcast at 7.

The report, eagerly anticipated by state lawmakers and experts, comes as legislators consider ways to balance Alaska’s expenses and revenue over multiple years. (From @alaskabeacon.com)

The House Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics said it had received “numerous complaints” about Vance’s conduct and that the allegations, if true, would violate state ethics laws. (From @alaskapublic.org)

The buyout program through the Natural Resources Conservation Service, or NRCS, would cost roughly $25 million if every household participates. The federal government has offered to cover three-quarters of the cost. The local portion could be around $6 million.

It’s Friday, Jan. 30, the 11th legislative day. Here is a look at today’s floor calendars. We’ll be live on TV with the House, followed immediately by the Senate. All floor sessions and committees can be viewed live at gavelalaska.org. #akleg

Organizers at Thursday's rally listed some of the people who have lost their lives at the hands of ICE officers, including U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Dozens of others have died while in custody in recent months.

Later this spring, 13 new murals will adorn the outside of the Marine View parking garage near Juneau’s cruise ship docks thanks to a workshop for local artists.

Yesterday on Juneau Afternoon, guests previewed this weekend's Alaska Music Summit, upcoming courses and classes from the UAF Cooperative Extension in Juneau and the Con Brio chamber series "Winds in Winter." Juneau Afternoon airs at 3 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK with a rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

The center has been closed on and off since late December, after Juneau was hit with back-to-back record-breaking snowstorms. That inundated the open-air warehouse with a backlog of materials to process.

ISER presents, at the request of the Governor’s Office, state fiscal options to legislators today at 10:00 a.m. We’ll have live coverage of this presentation on TV and at gavelalaska.org. #akleg #akgov

The new ferry will be a more efficient, diesel-electric vessel with capacity for 250 passengers and 58 cars at a time. (From KMXT - Kodiak)

John Bressette is Juneau’s new avalanche advisor, tracking weather and avalanche risk in the capital’s urban paths.

Fewer than 10 damaging landslides were reported by news media per decade before 1980. In the 2010s, 84 damaging landslides were reported. In just the first half of the 2020s, 76 landslides have made the news.

Murkowski said Noem has an obligation to maintain control of what the agencies in her jurisdiction are doing. Instead, Murkowski said, Noem has inflamed tensions. (From @alaskapublic.org)

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 28, the 9th legislative day. Here are your House and Senate calendars. Watch all floor sessions live at gavelalaska.org. #akleg

It’s been nearly a year since contract negotiations officially began between the Juneau School District and its teachers’ union, but they haven’t yet reached a new agreement. The district also hasn’t reached an agreement with its support staff union.

Some people traveled from as far as Indiana and Massachusetts to play at Platypus Con as Juneau's annual board game convention continues to grow in popularity.

Juneau Mayor Beth Weldon argued the ski area needs more oversight, given the high amount of funding the city has funneled toward it in recent years, specifically on a new gondola project.

The incident has since gone viral — prompting countless social media posts and even reaching national outlets. (From KUAC - Fairbanks)

The Senate Majority caucus plans to take questions from reporters today at 1:00. Watch live on KTOO 360TV or at gavelalaska.org. #akleg www.ktoo.org/video/gavel/...

The most prominent pieces of Dunleavy’s plan are a statewide sales tax and a new formula for Permanent Fund dividends. (From @alaskapublic.org)

New research finds that as air temperatures rise with climate change, the water that flows through coastal Alaska’s ponds and marshes is warming rapidly, too. That could spell trouble for Pacific salmon, which can’t grow – or live – in waters above certain temperatures. (From KHNS)

The federal government is reviewing a business program that brings contracting opportunities to Alaska Native corporations and tribes. (From KNBA)

Former Alaska Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum, who left office to run for governor, failed to perform the necessary due diligence before committing millions in state savings to a private equity fund, according to an outside review ordered by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. (From @alaskapublic.org)

In all, 339 people died from drug overdoses in 2024 Alaska, a 5% decline from the record high of 357 hit the year before, according to an annual report released by the state Department of Health. (From @alaskabeacon.com)

"People have been living this roller coaster of instability for funding for school districts, so it’s not going to be a surprise for them that we’re trying to stabilize this," said Juneau Rep. Andi Story.

It’s very likely that Alaskans will bring home some medals for the United States this year, said Erik Flora, nordic ski coach at Alaska Pacific University, where all eight of the athletes ski. (From @alaskapublic.org)

The Juneau Assembly will discuss a draft ordinance that changes the status of the Eaglecrest board from an empowered board to an advisory board at its committee of the whole meeting on Monday evening.

Dunleavy spent much of his 79-minute speech presenting a long list of accomplishments from his first seven years in office. (From @alaskapublic.org)

Alaska U.S. House Rep. Nick Begich III has a new challenger. Hill is Athabaskan, raised on Lake Iliamna and now lives in Naknek. He worked as a teacher in Naknek and Juneau, an administrator in the Lake and Peninsula School District and as supt. of the Bristol Bay district. (From @alaskapublic.org)

Juneau Rep. Andi Story's bill aims to change which student counts would be used when determining state funding for education, taking away the uncertainty a lot of districts have when building a budget.

Last week, she announced she’s running for U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan.

As the deadline for public comment approaches, the Alaska Federation of Natives is pulling out all the stops to block a national sport hunting and fishing group’s push to reform the federal subsistence board. (From KNBA 90.3 FM)

The bill would have expanded the state’s corporate income tax to capture revenue from so-called “highly digitized businesses” that sell to Alaskans over the internet but may not have a physical presence in the state. (From @alaskapublic.org)

The survey asks residents to pick what city programs and services are most important to fund and to pick what services to reduce funding for. The list includes programs like libraries and museums, trails and parks, and homeless services.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy is set to deliver the annual State of the State address to the Alaska Legislature in Juneau Thursday at 7 p.m. We have live special coverage right now.

Along with learning how to run a business, 24-year-old Rowan Miller from Valdez said she attended the Alaska Young Fishermen’s Summit to learn more about fisheries policy. She wants to have a hand in shaping the future of the industry.

The plaintiffs are seeking a declaratory judgment that the state is violating the Alaska Constitution by failing to sufficiently fund public education. They say the state is violating the plaintiffs’ and students’ rights to substantive due process. (From @adn.com)

Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he’ll soon propose a statewide sales tax as part of his larger plan to stabilize the state’s finances. (From @alaskapublic.org)

Gov. Mike Dunleavy will give his final State of the State address on Thursday evening at 7 pm. Live special coverage begins at 6:30 on KTOO-FM, KTOO 360TV or at ktoo.org.

Before delivering the sentence, Superior Court Judge Marianna Carpeneti said she thinks the facts of the case remain muddled. “None of us will ever know with a lot of clarity every event that transpired that evening and all of the harm that was done to different people,” she said.

Facing Foster Care director Amanda Metivier said for years, she’s heard complaints from foster youth that they cannot afford to buy enough food or other necessities. (From @alaskapublic.org)

"We have got to address our big fiscal issues in this state and we have got to figure out a path to pay for the things we need. Things haven’t gotten cheaper and our disasters have continued to grow in cost and scope," Rep. Sara Hannan said during an interview with KTOO’s Mike Lane last week.

“The Alaska Senate race is probably a lot more competitive now than it was before Mary Peltola got in,” said Kyle Kondik, analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. (From @alaskapublic.org)

“We know we’re facing even tighter revenue constraints than before. We know that demands will continue to rise, as they always have,” said Senate President Gary Stevens, a Kodiak Republican. (From @alaskapublic.org)

After the dissolution of the state’s third-largest political party, the Alaska Division of Elections is sending out notices to the 19,117 members of the former Alaskan Independence Party, warning them to update their voter information. (From @alaskabeacon.com)

Alaska lost about a third of its U.S. Forest Service employees in the past year due to federal staffing cuts led by the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Leading this workforce in flux is Jerry Ingersoll, the U.S. Forest Service’s acting regional forester for Alaska.

Did you catch the northern lights? KTOO's Morning Host Mike Lane captured these images of the aurora borealis on his way to work this morning.