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Although cases are rare in the state, researchers are worried it could become warmer as a result of warming temperatures.
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The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, details about a delay in construction at the Seward dock rerouting cruise ships to Whittier, summer salmon fishing restrictions in Kodiak Island rivers, a reversal of the Alaska Board of Fisheries rules by the state attorney general, KIBSD is paying for up to 20 of its international teachers to receive their green cards, and a special remembrance of Alaskan veterans ahead of Memorial Day on Monday from the Alaska Desk at Alaska Public Media.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's show with host Davis Hovey, we go over the schedule, some of the vendors and the new features at this year's Crabfest with staff from the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce. Opening day is Thursday, May 21, at noon. More information and the full schedule of events can be found online at kodiakcrabfest.com.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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(NASA)This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports on missing buoys in False Pass, Theo Greenly, also of KUCB, on the voiding of Area M restrictions, and KTOO's Yvonne Krumrey on both false emergency alerts and on the passing of a beloved advocate for Alaska Native fishing rights.
Alaska News
- Legislation would prevent state from using psychiatric hospitals as makeshift foster placements
- An Alaska reporter investigates billions of dollars in subsidies that went to telecoms
- Alaska lawmakers seek first boost to unemployment benefits since 2009
- Healthcare bills spurred by $50B federal program await Alaska Gov. Dunleavy’s signature
- Alaska's North Slope proposed as home for massive AI data center
- State voids Area M restrictions after Aleutians East argues ethics violation
- Oil industry has an idea to speed permitting on western Arctic leases. BLM likes it.
- Anchorage air travelers caught in long TSA lines
- Alaska lawmakers adjourn one session and begin another to mull tax breaks for LNG project
- In Alaska House and U.S. Senate, impassioned pleas to help two storm-ravaged villages in limbo
NPR National News
- Treasury Department prepares $250 bill with Trump's face on it
- Former senior CIA officer took home gold bars and millions in cash, FBI says
- 'Look to your elders': Alfre Woodard shares her secret to Hollywood longevity
- FIFA's World Cup ticket sales outraged fans. Now they are under investigation
- Orthodox Jewish women in Israel may now take a rabbinic exam, like men
- This is how close American households are to the financial edge
- A federal judge in D.C. declines to block Trump's executive order on voting by mail
- U.S. street drug deaths keep dropping, but some Western states see deadly overdose surge
- An Ohio pastor-turned-lawmaker backs a Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act for schools
- Cure For Paranoia: Tiny Desk Concert