KTOO Public Media (Juneau, AK)

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/20260825News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: A Superior Court judge heard oral arguments this morning over the legality of the city’s planned redevelopment of Juneau’s Telephone Hill, A former Juneau fire captain has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for assaulting his stepdaughter, and KTOO examines how the city dealt with having a public safety employee charged for child assault, Around 250 U.S. Coast Guard crew members stationed...

A Capital City Fire/Rescue truck. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) A former Juneau fire captain has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for physically assaulting his stepdaughter. The State of Alaska filed criminal charges against Brent Clancy in June of last year. But Clancy was still employed with the city’s fire department for two more months — until the end of August.

Attorney Fred Triem gives an oral argument for a civil lawsuit regarding the Telephone Hill neighborhood in downtown Juneau on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO) A Superior Court judge heard oral arguments on Tuesday morning for a civil lawsuit about the legality of the city’s planned redevelopment of the downtown Telephone Hill neighborhood. The lawsuit pits former tenants of the neighborhood against the City and Borough of Juneau.

(From left) Leah Borsich, Sabrina Hansen and Hayden Scalis. (Photos provided by Maggie Endres, Casey Cash and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.) The U.S. military has identified some of the victims of the plane crash that killed eight people in Southwest Alaska last week. A chartered Cessna 441 Conquest crashed on Thursday at a military radar site on Cape Newenham, about 450 miles west of Anchorage.

Coast Guard crews compete in a Buoy Tender Olympics game called the “heat and beat” on Aug. 19, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO) Listen to this story: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/25CoastieGames-WEB.mp3 Around 250 U.S. Coast Guard crew members stationed across Alaska and the Pacific Northwest spent last week in Juneau to train and compete in games called the Buoy Tender Olympics on Wednesday.

An Alaskan votes in the primary election at the State Office Building in Juneau on Aug. 18, 2026. (Jamie Diep/KTOO) Two Democrats and two Republicans are poised to face off this November in the race for governor after primary voting wrapped up on Tuesday. And it looks like there’ll be two Dan Sullivans and a Mary Peltola in the race for U.S. Senate. But the dust is still settling.

Glenda Douglas of Shungnak, in the Northwest Arctic Borough, shared this photo on social media of a gasoline purchase she made on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (Glenda Douglas photo) It’s not a typo. The price of a gallon of gasoline in the northwest Alaska village of Shungnak was $26.82 on Friday, local residents and regional officials said, likely giving the community the dubious honor of having the most expensive gasoline in the United States.

https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/20260824-News-Update.mp3 In this newscast: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to end Juneau’s annual glacial lake outburst flood before the flood of 2030, The state approved the first segment of a new access road for the controversial New Amalga gold mine in Juneau, The Alaska Marine Highway System will finally receive $410 million in federal grant money, Federal investigators say a charter plane crashed into a remote area of Southwest...

A tree floats down the Mendenhall River as the flood crests on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026. (Photo by Corinne Smith/Alaska Beacon) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gathered a group of potential industry partners in Juneau on Aug. 21 to discuss how they might drain Suicide Basin — the glacial lake that produces Juneau’s annual glacial outburst flood.

The Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site, located roughly 360 miles west of Anchorage, is seen in 2014. (NOAA Alaska ShoreZone) A charter plane was on its second attempt at landing when it crashed at a military radar site in a remote area of Southwest Alaska on Thursday, Aug, 20, killing all eight people on board. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Alaska Region Chief Clint Johnson confirmed the Cessna 441 Conquest was owned and operated by Anchorage-based Security Aviation.