According to the study, the number of tufted puffins counted on the archipelago's breeding colonies have dropped by 88% since 1975.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we hear about Invasive Species Awareness Week in Kodiak, Coast Guard Base Kodiak is getting a new child development center, funding cuts and high fuel costs hamper salmon weirs and surveys, an interview with one of 15 U.S. House of Rep. candidates Matt Schultz, and the Sun'aq Tribe is moving its preschool to the old North Star building.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we discuss a new short film documentary about Filipino culture and life in Alaska called Bridging Our Stories with the filmmaker, Rafael Bitanga. Bitanga is from the Philippines and went to school in Kodiak.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska Public Media's Rachel Cassandra reports on salmon parasite allergies, Alix Soliman of KTOO adds that an ocean monitoring system has been spared the ax, The Alaska Beacon tells of a starfish lawsuit, and walking the beach looking for dead birds with Sofia Stuart-Rasi of KUCB.
Alaska News
- State could differentiate 2 Dan Sullivans on the ballot but doesn't have to, its attorney says
- Dunleavy vetoes bill naming ISER and marine park after Vic Fischer
- Trump lashes out at Murkowski and other Republicans at fiery luncheon
- Gov. Dunleavy vetoes $89.5M from Alaska budget but leaves school funding intact
- Bill to protect youth in psychiatric hospitals dies after Dunleavy veto
- Preliminary necropsy shows dead fin whale in Seward had injuries consistent with vessel strike
- With Murkowski's help, Senate votes to restrain Trump’s power to wage war on Iran
- State advances over four hundred projects in bid for Rural Health Transformation Program funding
- Anderson under evacuation orders as lightning sparks Interior Alaska wildfires
- An endangered, pregnant fin whale arrived in Seward dead on a cruise ship bow
NPR National News
- What made the deadly Venezuelan earthquakes different
- 'The Bear' is back in the kitchen
- Olivia Rodrigo dominates the pop charts in her new album's first week
- Photos: See Venezuela destruction after earthquakes
- The Supreme Court says the U.S. can turn away asylum seekers at the border
- Trump can begin deportations of Syrian, Haitian TPS holders, Supreme Court says
- Supreme Court backs Monsanto in its fight against liability from popular weed killer
- A federal judge in Boston blocks key parts of Trump's order to limit voting by mail
- 'They can kill you': Immigrants fear a surge in xenophobic violence in South Africa
- Trump is pushing to institutionalize homeless people. That may include veterans