The nutrients are vital for plankton, the base of the food chain that sustains the state's fisheries
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, the Alaska Beacon reports on changes to advance reservations for public cabins, the Kodiak commercial salmon seiner Emily Rose gets some help from Good Samaritan vessels, Coast Guard Base Kodiak hosted a 9/11 25th anniversary ceremony, a recap of the gubernatorial fisheries debate in Kodiak, state Sen. Gary Stevens is retiring from the Legislature, and KIBSD's Board of Education is considering closing East Elementary school.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we sit down with Sen. Gary Stevens of Kodiak as he wraps up 26 years in the state Legislature and career-long service to the community.Stevens will officially remain a state senator until the next legislative session starts in January of 2027.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines:Coverage of the Kodiak Fisheries Debates from Liz Ruskin of Alaska Public Media, and Davis Hovey of KMXT, plus its an otter disaster for crabbers in Southeast Alaska, story from KSTK's Leilani Combs.
Alaska News
- 8 candidates, 3 debates: Tune into Debate for the State this October
- It’s Fat Bear Week. Meet this year’s heavyset hopefuls
- Plane crash near Nabesna kills 2
- Whittier’s new $80M dock considered total loss after fire
- Elder Alaskans increasingly vulnerable to dying by suicide, according to data
- Sullivan’s trawl bycatch bill clears a U.S. Senate committee
- Republican Treg Taylor leans on experience as attorney general in gubernatorial pitch
- Thousands of gallons of water used to extinguish Whittier dock fire, officials say
- Peltola and Sullivan confront trawl bycatch, and each other, at Kodiak fisheries debate
- Alaska sees 10-year high in youth suicide deaths
NPR National News
- Trump's D.C. arch is now a military complex. Here's how that complicates things
- The 2026 Booker Prize shortlist is 'writing at its best'
- This 'fire amoeba' pushes the limit of what's possible for complex life
- Meet the future of the LA Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony
- Sri Lanka court convicts 15 over deadly 2019 Easter bombings
- Houthis try to push deeper into western Yemen, upending life, witnesses tell NPR
- A journalist once barred from the White House says this media ban is different
- New DNA analysis adds evidence Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings
- AI solved one of math's hardest problems. Humanity learned nothing (so far)
- Trump heads to the U.N. looking for wins after a rough week