Steve Junker
Managing Editor of NewsSteve Junker is Managing Editor of News at CAI.
Steve oversees CAI’s award-winning newsroom, including on-air and digital news coverage.
He joined the radio station in 2007. His reporting has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press and the Murrow Awards. He hosts a live hour-long weekly program, The Local News Roundup, in which he speaks with editors and reporters from across the region about the week’s biggest stories. And he produces the weekly seasonal report on Cape Cod fishing action, The Fishing News.
A writer, a fisherman, an occasional boat builder, a recovering musician, a longtime chicken rancher, a beekeeper... Steve keeps busy in Woods Hole, where he lives with his wife and two children.
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This week: An earthquake, an eclipse… what else could happen? Ahh, maybe better not to ask! Meanwhile, firefighting foam gets into drinking water in Harwich—it’s not PFAS foam, but it’s not good to drink, either. And: what happens to Cuttyhunk island if the ferry can’t get into the harbor?
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This week: Governor Maura Healey comes to Barnstable to announce new support for families with preschoolers. And, a long legal battle ends as the Mashpee Wampanoag win rights to their tribal lands. Also: here comes the eclipse—you ready?
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This week: A very big week for offshore wind, as the next round of major projects starts to take shape. And, every member of the state legislative delegation from Cape Cod, the Vineyard, Nantucket, and Plymouth – Democrat and Republican alike – agrees; they all signed a letter calling for the owner of Pilgrim Nuclear to stop evaporating radioactive wastewater.
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This week: The final "piece" of a bridge to replace the Sagamore is almost in place: it’s… $1 billion dollars, and the Cape’s delegation is leaning hard to get it from the feds. Also: eleven months have gone by, so when are we going to hear a decision from the EPA on a proposed machine gun range for Joint base Cape Cod?
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This week: How safe is the water evaporating from Pilgrim nuclear power station? The state wants to know. Also, endangered right whales are back in numbers in our local waters. And: know someone looking for a summer rental? An MV estate is offering four weeks for $1 million.
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This week: The power is on! Vineyard Wind is sending electricity from its first five offshore wind turbines – that’s already enough to power 30,000 homes. And: what happens when our cell phone service goes out? And: climate change is punishing New Bedford’s hurricane barrier.
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This week: we know now where the rope came from that led to the death of a young right whale washed ashore on Martha’s Vineyard. And, the former Twin Brooks golf course in Hyannis will not be developed for more than 300 apartments. And, a lawsuit over PFAS exposure has more than a hundred plaintiffs from Cape Cod.
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This week: The federal budget currently being wrangled in Washington, D.C., may make a big difference to the replacement of the Bourne and Sagamore bridges. And: What’s going on at the offshore site of Vineyard Wind? And, we take a look at the long entanglement and brief life of a singular right whale — number 5120.
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This week: An endangered right whale washes up dead on Martha’s Vineyard, and researchers scramble to understand why. Also, a coalition of offshore wind opponents gathers in Hyannis. And, the state wants to know what’s in the water being evaporated at the Pilgrim Nuclear Plant.
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This week: A Harvard professor examines airborne health risks related to Pilgrim nuclear power station. Sarah Peake, state representative for the Outer Cape since 2006, says she will not run for re-election. And they’re back: for the first time this season, right whales are spotted in Cape Cod Bay.