NOAA's Alaska Navigation Manager said these surveys aim to make the waters around the archipelago safer.
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 this year's cooler May in Kodiak and Southcentral, local fourth graders released their salmon fry into Island Lake, how high fuel costs will impact Kodiak's salmon fishermen, the City of Kodiak is back pedaling on two proposed parks projects, the city has a new interim city manager after Chris Hladick left, an interview with gubernatorial candidate Tom Begich, and the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is budgeting $13.8 million for KIBSD for the upcoming fiscal year.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, we sit down with Sun'aq Tribe researchers Matt Van Daele and Daniel Smith to discuss their work with invasive crayfish, gray whales, Aleutian terns, and more.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KTOO"s Alix Soliman reports on transboundary mines above salmon streams, plus the opening of the hatchery king salmon season in Juneau, Simon Lopez adds a story on continued low numbers of razor clams in Ninilchik and Clam Gulch, plus an audio postcard of kids releasing salmon fry, courtesy of KMXT's Katherine Irving.
Alaska News
- $25M gift to bolster rural- and Indigenous-focused medical training in Alaska
- Candidates decry high energy prices while in Juneau for Celebration
- Best solution to Alaska’s PFD ‘gorilla’ is to end the program with $10K payout, Walker argues
- ANWR lease sale draws $3.7M in winning bids, but major oil and gas players stay home
- Alaska blood bank sees worst shortage in years
- Sullivan votes against Trump’s ballroom and compensation fund
- Glenfarne releases Alaska LNG cost estimates, as skeptical legislators press for details
- Alaska one of only 2 states to see increase in SNAP participants in 2025
- Hey, Alaska: What do you want to ask the 2026 primary election candidates?
- Donlin Gold defends its state water permit in Alaska Supreme Court
NPR National News
- Evette, backed by Trump, and Wilson, a Trump supporter, head to S.C. governor runoff
- House approves labor-friendly bill with support from 20 Republicans
- Three judges, three scandals and new scrutiny of judicial accountability
- House passes bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol through the remainder of Trump's term
- A warm World Cup welcome? U.S. immigration policies have chilling effect
- Why there's a debate over the new quarantine center for Americans at risk of Ebola
- NASA names 4 astronauts on the 'highly complex' Artemis III lunar training mission
- U.S. strikes Iran in response to downed helicopter
- Big tobacco hooked us on ultra-processed foods. It might teach us how to cut back
- Social Security funds could run short by 2032, program's Trustees warn