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After yesterday’s filing deadline passed, nine candidates are on the October election ballot running for Kodiak Island Borough Assembly seats. Only two filed for City Council seats.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, Kodiak College announces its next director, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin stops in Kodiak, KMXT staff sit down with House District 5 candidate Kathy Simpler and gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker, shellfish around Kodiak test positive for toxins responsible for Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly fails to pass a new sales tax on cannabis, and beavers cause havoc on Saltery Cove Road.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin discusses the upcoming performing arts season with Molly Miller, executive director of the Kodiak Arts Council, and Pam Foreman and Kristina Van Hoogmoed with Fairwind Players.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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Photo: Linda Shaw, NOAA FisheriesOn this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines: Katherine Irving of KMXT reports on new science that measures ocean acidity, the Alaska Beacon on using environmental DNA in fisheries management, and KRBD's Hunter Morrison on a request to open a sport fishery for invasive green crabs.
Alaska News
- Alaska Rep. Nick Begich leads 3 challengers in U.S. House primary
- U.S. Senate race will have two Dan Sullivans and a Mary Peltola
- Campaign finance ballot measure passing by wide margin
- Kreiss-Tomkins, Begich, Wilson and Bronson lead in governor primary results
- Independent Meda DeWitt says Alaska needs a governor who thinks long-term
- Republican governor candidate Bernadette Wilson says she’s frustrated Alaska is ‘stagnant’
- Former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker wants to boost development, stabilize finances and pay a dividend
- Alaska woman in surrogacy dispute gives birth in Texas
- Super PACs try to game Alaska’s open primary for U.S. Senate by elevating political unknowns
- State announces $4.5M in funding for Alaska health projects
NPR National News
- How India's blocking of a film exposing real-life police abuses backfired
- Striking hospital employees sound alarm over workplace violence
- Congo's Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases as it outpaces response efforts
- Feeling restless? Level up your life by starting a side quest
- 15 states have laws that allow corporal punishment in schools. Here's where, and why
- Elbridge who? How the name of a forgotten founder lives on in the word 'gerrymander'
- Why more than 400,000 kids are on waitlists for federal childcare assistance
- Israel strikes an air base in Syria to prevent Turkish troops from deploying
- Liberia agrees to take 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S.
- Trump says U.S. and Canada reached deal to delay 50% U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports