Old Harbor Native Corporation
Old Harbor hosted its first commercial cruise ship earlier this month on Aug. 2. Prior to that, the Alutiiq community, roughly 40 miles southeast of Kodiak, hadn’t hosted any cruise ships since a Marine Expeditions vessel with 40 passengers visited in 1997 according to the Anchorage Daily News.
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Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, a suspect was arrested in connection to a string of break-ins this week, a woman suffers non-lethal injuries after a bear attack, what to do about bears in the Kodiak Island Borough landfill, nine candidates file for open seats on the Borough Assembly, and Ouzinkie is installing a new solar array.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, a longtime bear biologist and the Executive Director of the Kodiak Brown Bear Trust, Larry Van Daele, weighs in on the latest challenges from bears accessing the landfill.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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Hansen.On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines: KFSK's Olivia Rose reports on a dramatic rescue on a Southeast seiner, and KMXT's Katherine Irving on beavers building a dam a lake in the road to the fishing hole.
Alaska News
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- Alaska Rep. Nick Begich leads 3 challengers in U.S. House primary
- U.S. Senate race will have two Dan Sullivans and a Mary Peltola
- Campaign finance ballot measure passing by wide margin
- Kreiss-Tomkins, Begich, Wilson and Bronson lead in governor primary results
- Independent Meda DeWitt says Alaska needs a governor who thinks long-term
- Republican governor candidate Bernadette Wilson says she’s frustrated Alaska is ‘stagnant’
NPR National News
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- Did climate change cause this heat wave? Most likely, and here's why
- Spokane wildfire evacuees return home, but it's 'still a hazmat situation'
- Churches, libraries and breweries: Inside DHS' covert surveillance operation
- When is suspending students discrimination? Education Department renews an old fight
- At least 25% of former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE, study finds
- Indonesians brave choking smoke to pray for rain as country battles wildfires