Brian Venua
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KMXT
The Kodiak Island Borough School District is offering a new incentive to retain its temporary international teachers. This is after the Trump administration priced the district out of international recruiting last year through a massive visa fee hike. Now the district wants to sponsor these teachers to get green cards – permanent legal residency – for about $10,000 each.
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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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(Alaska Department of Fish and Game)This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT's Katherine Irving reports on a new hatchery and ongoing restrictions for fishermen meant to help the rehabilitation of Kodiak king salmon, and KTOO's Alix Soliman on a mine in British Columbia that has Southeast Alaskans worried about their salmon.
Alaska News
- 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
- Alaska Legislature passes sweeping crime bill raising age of consent to 18 on last day of session
- Alaska’s oldest original lighthouse will soon open to the public for the first time
- Snag with Seward cruise dock reroutes ships to Whittier
- Trump wants a more loyal Senate. Murkowski says he’s sabotaging that.
- Anchorage Assembly considers public safety advisory commission reboot
- Alaska House weighs negotiated compromise cutting taxes for Alaska LNG project
NPR National News
- Prospects fade for imminent end to Iran war as attacks restart
- Texas GOP voters vote in race that could shape future of the party -- and the Senate
- In West Texas, an unlikely alliance stands against extending the border wall
- Therapists are using AI to take notes. Is it a useful tool or a breach of trust?
- Inside ATL: how Delta juggles 100,000 bags a day at the world's busiest airport
- Immigration courts are using a new tactic to speed up deportations
- Attacks from residents complicate the fight against a rare type of Ebola
- The Miles Davis century: The definition, and evolution, of cool
- New York back in NBA Finals for first time since 1999 after beating Cleveland
- Sonny Rollins, colossus of the saxophone, has died at 95