Alaska’s public schools will receive $500 more per student next year. It's the first permanent education funding increase since Gov. Mike Dunleavy took office, but he cut it again after the state's Legislature overrode a previous veto.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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This week we hear about Alaska students being part of a mass panic at the National Speech and Debate Association's tournament, Harbormaster Dave Johnson's charges were dismissed by the state, a Kodiak dog has parvovirus, the Griffin Memorial Hospital could be used for museum storage, state land is for sale on Kupreanof Strait for the first time, and Kodiak was part of the "No Kings Day" protests on June 14.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we hear from two Pacific Seafood officials about their operations going into summer salmon season as well the latest update from the Kodiak plant as the old Trident processing plant is owned by Pacific Seafood.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Brian Venua peers through his monocle to chronicle one crabber's journey to DC for KMXT, the Fishery Management Council of the North Pacific still won't be specific about a chum collar for Bering Sea pollock trawlers, according to reporting from KYUK's Evan Erickson, and Samantha Watson's relation of her participation in a Kuskokwim salmon celebration, with the story creation and audio preparation at KYUK.
Alaska News
- Homes lost, hundreds evacuated as wildfires explode across Interior Alaska
- Education nonprofit plans to sue state over governor’s BSA veto
- Alaska holds migrants in ‘punitive conditions,' violating ICE standards, lawyers say
- The making of a moderate: Murkowski’s new book tells her story
- A trio of brown bears crashes coops in Anchorage Hillside neighborhoods
- U.S. Senate bill would require BLM and Forest Service to sell off public land for housing
- Harmful algal blooms linked to die-off of fur seals in the Bering Sea
- Anchorage clears its 2 largest homeless encampments
- The man behind a North Slope oil renaissance says he’s found another hot prospect
- Mat-Su Borough Mayor Edna DeVries joins 2026 governor's race
NPR National News
- RFK Jr.'s picks for CDC vaccine advisers meet this week amid controversy
- Brother to Bruh: How Gen Alpha slang has its origins in the 16th century
- Why a war in the Middle East hasn't sparked an oil crisis
- Trump's pick for appeals judge seen as 'ill-suited' to lifetime appointment
- Six things to know about Iran's supreme leader
- From streetwear to luxury fashion: How Virgil Abloh reshaped an industry
- Why America's giant bunker-busting bombs may have failed to reach their target
- SpaceX launches 4 people into orbit on Axiom Space Ax-4 mission
- Brazilian tourist found dead after falling from an Indonesian volcano
- The good news (154 million deaths avoided) and bad news about childhood vaccines