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The Kodiak Island Borough School District’s Board of Education is waiting at least another week before it decides how it will cover a looming budget deficit for next school year.
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Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we hear about the IPHC passing a decision on daily halibut bag limits to the NPFMC, Alaska Public Media reports on a bill in the Alaska Legislature to update requirements for resident hunting and fishing licenses, Alaska Public Media also has details on a new way to bring groceries to rural Alaska, and the KIBSD Board of Education puts off a decision on its FY'2027 budget until next week.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, the director of the Kodiak Harvest Food Cooperative discusses the coop's upcoming move from its current location on Selig Street to the Kodiak Marketplace downtown. The grand reopening is scheduled for March 7. More information can be found on the coop's Facebook page.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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NOAA FishwatchThis week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Theo Greenly reports on possible chum salmon bycatch measures for Bering Sea pollock, Davis Hovey on a subdued assessment for Gulf of Alaska cod, and no revised bag limits for sport halibut, for now.
Alaska News
- Alaska well-represented on US Olympic cross-country ski team, as games begin
- Southeast ferry riders call proposed Cascade Point terminal a ‘boondoggle’ in public comments
- U.S. Senate confirms a new judge for Alaska
- Kipnuk confronts hard choice on relocation after last year’s devastating storm
- Dunleavy vetoes have Alaska’s construction industry urging lawmakers to pass quick fix
- Race for cash is well underway for Alaska’s U.S. Senate and House campaigns
- Alaska man jailed on charges he helped Honduran mother and daughter enter US illegally
- A look at Siberian Yupik dance long ago, through a teacher’s stories
- Alaska House passes bill tightening residency requirements for hunting and fishing licenses
- Yes, it's another government shutdown, but Alaska impacts might be minimal
NPR National News
- In this Icelandic drama, a couple quietly drifts apart
- After the Fall: How Olympic figure skaters soar after stumbling on the ice
- They're cured of leprosy. Why do they still live in leprosy colonies?
- This season, 'The Pitt' is about what doesn't happen in one day
- Lindsey Vonn is set to ski the Olympic downhill race with a torn ACL. How?
- State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
- DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
- The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it
- Trump promised a crypto revolution. So why is bitcoin crashing?
- Mariah Carey, coffee makers and other highlights from the Olympic opening ceremony