The Kodiak Island Borough School District is considering closing another elementary school to address a multimillion dollar budget deficit for next school year, fiscal year 2027.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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This week we hear about tips for feeling better during winter blues from Alaska Public Media, Kodiak gets hit with about a foot of snow, 2020 Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod fishery disaster funds are being distributed to those who were impacted including the city of Kodiak, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council sets the Bering Sea pollock quota and Gulf of Alaska ground fish quotas for next year, and the KIBSD board of education has begun the budgeting process for next school year.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin speaks with the production team of Kodiak Arts Council's JOY, a community holiday music production. Performances are Dec. 6 at 7pm and Dec. 7 at 2pm.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:This week KUCB's Maggie Nelson reports on Red crab nearly wasted, Davis Hovey tells of a comment period for fishery management suggestions, and a sablefish report card!
Alaska News
- Facing a hot Trump controversy, Sullivan deploys a sidestep
- Dunleavy’s proposed budget requires $1.5B from savings
- ‘Can they adapt?’: Researchers watch for signs of lynx in the Chilkat Valley
- Dunleavy says he plans to roll out fiscal plan ahead of Alaska lawmakers' return to Juneau
- Haines plans for roadway improvements with federal infrastructure funding
- Murkowski tries again to change mountain's name to Denali
- From Charli XCX to the Eagles, here are the songs that got Alaska lawmakers through 2025
- Federal fisheries managers hold Bering Sea pollock catch steady
- Southcentral Alaska mining prospect in national park presents familiar conflict, with a twist
- Alaska adventure 'grandfather,' Dick Griffith, passes at 98
NPR National News
- What to know about the Brown University shooting
- Chile shifts sharply right as José Antonio Kast wins Presidency
- Bystander hailed as a hero for disarming Sydney gunman
- The cookies that fueled votes for women
- Voices of experience and hope soar in a song to prevent suicide
- Tanning bed users are at higher risk of skin cancer, especially in unusual places
- At least 15 killed in mass shooting at Hanukkah event on Sydney's Bondi Beach
- US envoys arrive in Berlin for latest round of Ukraine peace talks with Zelenskyy
- With federal relief on the horizon, Black farmers worry it won't come soon enough
- 2 killed and 9 injured in Brown University shooting, person of interest now in custody