The interim chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage was in Kodiak this week, touring its Kodiak College campus and meeting with its staff.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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In this week's recap with Host Brian Venua, Old Harbor has water again, Kodiak's Chamber of Commerce held its annual awards dinner, the State of Alaska is looking into an agriculture cooperative and recently published its preliminary salmon numbers statewide, and the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank was raided by state troopers.
Talk of the Rock
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Signal crayfish, an invasive species, are showing signs of stress on the population. Biologists from the Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak share updates on their efforts and guesses what's going on.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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Image by NOAA MESA Project, via the NOAA Photo Library.This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KMXT's Davis Hovey reports that the Alaska State Troopers seized all electronics from the Alaska Groundfish Data Bank in Kodiak, and then he throws cold water on an old wives tale.
Alaska News
- New offshore drilling plan opens almost all federal water off Alaska
- The ‘Into the Wild’ bus exhibit is still under wraps as museum searches for funding
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- Judge denies Southeast Alaska tribes' effort to dismiss Metlakatla fishing rights case
- Alaska nominee for federal judgeship has smooth confirmation hearing
- Congress deletes Biden's limits on development in NPR-A
- Drones helped speed Halong’s Disaster Declaration, officials say
- Juneau Assembly kills ordinance to adopt local ranked choice voting
- Begich, like rest of U.S. House, votes to release Epstein files
NPR National News
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- Rare earths: Federal backing and tech advances aim to help the U.S. catch up to China
- After calling him a 'communist,' Trump will meet Mamdani in the Oval Office Friday
- In Miami Beach, the New York City mayoral election is an opportunity
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- Transportation Department endorses crash test dummy that more closely resembles women
- Pras Michel of the Fugees sentenced to 14 years over illegal campaign donations
- The limitations of trash TV, as seen in 'All's Fair'
- Judge orders an end to Trump's troop deployment in D.C., calling it 'unlawful'
- Three is not a crowd: Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez are BEATrio