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According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the closures are a result of below average returns to the Buskin Lake weir
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Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn 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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(MaryCait Dolan/KYUK)This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Avery Ellfeldt of KHNS reports on mixed feelings about reopening the Chilkat sport king salmon fishery, KYUK's Samantha Watson on the Kuskokwim's Return of the Salmon event, and Katherine Irving adds a story from the studios of KMXT on the cost of gathering survey data.
Alaska News
- 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
- Alaska lawmakers seek gas pipeline tax compromise as another special session begins
- It ‘doesn’t work,’ Gov. Dunleavy says of Senate Alaska LNG bill
- Gasline bill remains stalled in Senate as Dunleavy vetoes 9 bills, threatens another special session
- Crisis response teams free up Anchorage police and emergency services, officials say
- State’s refusal to put Petersburg Sullivan on ballot ‘likely not legally justified,’ attorney says
- How an increasingly common allergy is taking salmon off the table for some Alaskans
- Dunleavy faces Thursday deadline to sign or veto 24 bills as gas pipeline bill looms
NPR National News
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- A Revolutionary War soldier's DNA links him to living relatives
- Who would pay for Trump's proposed $300 billion Iran reconstruction fund?
- When falling housing prices are good news — and when they're not
- A U.S.-Iran dispute over nuclear inspections clouds work to finalize a war-ending deal
- People fired over Charlie Kirk posts get big payouts for First Amendment retaliation
- How Trump's 'Complete and Total Endorsement' has reshaped the Republican Party