Although the calendar they approved is similar to last year's, the board also considered some more unconventional options, including a four-week winter break.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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On this week's episode, an unidentified boy is rescued after falling into Island Lake, the Alaska Aerospace Corporation partners with an Israeli startup, the Kodiak school board approves the FY'28 school calendar, the M/V Kennicott makes its return to Kodiak after several years, three Kodiak teenagers participated in the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards in Soldotna, and Kodiak canines get a taste of the popular sport called flyball.
Talk of the Rock
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Join host Jared Griffin as he talks with the cast and crew of "You Can't Take It With You", a spring production of the Kodiak Shakesbears and Drama Club. Featuring: Lydia Dagen, Delaney Glenn, Holly Olsen, and Ivan Wellner.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey reports on the creation of the USDA's new Office of Seafood, Hope McKenney of KCAW on the Sitka Assembly voting against a sweetheart lease deal for a local hatchery, and a story of sea ice prognostication from Ben Townsend and KNOM.
Alaska News
- Bill returning Alaska to pension plan nears state Senate vote amid concerns over cost
- In Anchorage, many factors behind high number of pedestrian deaths
- This Alaska musician is likely UAA's youngest-ever graduate. But she says it's not all about her.
- 6 months after Halong, evacuees in Anchorage move into temporary housing
- Alaska Lt. Gov. faces lawsuit for sharing confidential voter data with Trump DOJ
- Senators’ version of state budget includes $1,000 dividend and $150 energy relief
- Democratic U.S. House PAC has Alaska in its sights
- Senators condemn Trump administration's National Park Service cuts and $10B 'slush fund'
- Senate committee eyes smaller tax break for Alaska LNG project
- Raising Alaska’s age of consent headlines 10-bill package of crime legislation
NPR National News
- Opinion: A lesson in humanity at the Boston Marathon
- Justice Department makes it easier to deport those with DACA status
- DOJ wants to shield its lawyers from outside scrutiny. Critics worry about oversight
- Iran's foreign minister awaits U.S. delegation to Pakistan for peace talks
- Justice Department to allow firing squads for executions in move to ramp up capital punishment
- Appeals court rules that Trump's asylum ban at the border is illegal
- From night life in Egypt to rice farming in Vietnam, the war in Iran is a drain
- A real-life Kraken stalked the seas of the late Cretaceous
- Before sci-fi was everywhere, this pioneering magazine championed 'scientifiction'
- Justice Department drops probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell