The end of the school year usually means the start of fun summer adventures. But in Kodiak, it’s bittersweet. North Star Elementary is closing, and much of the town elementary school staff are getting shuffled around as the two remaining buildings separate into upper and lower elementary schools.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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This week we hear about the Alutiiq Museum reopened, Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center has a few openings, there's a new fishermen crew training course, half of Kodiak's rural school seniors were in Ouzinkie, the Kodiak Island Borough upped how much it funds education, and we look at bills Kodiak's state legislators worked on.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Jared Griffin, grassroots organization Kodiak Collaborative and the YMCA of Alaska discuss their plans to help address some of the community's childcare needs by offering an after-school program in the fall.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Evan Erickson provides a grim preview of the Yukon salmon season for KYUK, KMXT's Brian Venua reports on the sentencing of a Kodiak crab fisherman, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has reduced the daily limit for rockfish in Cook Inlet, and a nine-year-old has won the Sitka Salmon Derby, according to KCAW's Robert Woolsey.
Alaska News
- Arctic research faces uneven cuts from Trump administration
- Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Departure of Native Student Services staff ahead of reorganization of program leaves UAA students anxious
- Potential NOAA cuts could jeopardize weather reporting that's crucial for boaters and hunters
- How to protect your car if Mount Spurr erupts
- Juneau advocates petition to lower local taxes, return to in-person voting
- Film portrays Willie Hensley as a man of his times
- Alaska House votes down symbolic antiabortion budget language, passes amendment against trans care
- Juneau road and Nome port lose funding as Alaska Senate passes capital budget
- Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
NPR National News
- Young offenders are often denied credit for "dead time" behind bars
- From bromance to breakup: How Elon Musk and Donald Trump blew up
- Fans drive huge Nintendo Switch 2 launch; others play the waiting game
- Israel says it's arming clans to fight Hamas in Gaza
- Trump's travel ban includes Afghanistan, where thousands await U.S. resettlement
- After his mother's death, Ocean Vuong wrote his way out of grief
- Trump threatens to cut Musk contracts as feud quickly escalates
- In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers
- Trump orders a probe into the Biden administration and its alleged autopen use
- FBI Director Patel, a longtime bureau critic, begins to put his stamp on the agency