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.
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 the Tustumena replacement project finally going out to bid, Daniel Brigman has been selected as the next superintendent for KIBSD although contract details are not finalized yet, three Tribal entities on Kodiak Island plan to build a cultural center off the Chiniak Highway, our colleagues at KUCB report that NPFMC plans to take action on chum salmon bycatch at its meeting next week on Feb. 5 and Alaska Public Media reports on Gov. Dunleavy's recently announced fiscal plan.
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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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KRBD's Hunter Morrison reports on the Southeast Alaska chinook forecast, Avery Ellfeldt from KHNS on the implications of warming wetlands on salmon, and a report on the Alaska Young Fishermen's Summit from Alix Soliman, compliments of KTOO.
Alaska News
- 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
- Unalaska's pollock industry anticipates upcoming chum bycatch decision
NPR National News
- The Winter Olympics in Italy were meant to be sustainable. Are they?
- Don Toliver is a rap star, just not the kind you've been looking for
- Their film was shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran. It won an award at Sundance
- Day 5 of search for Nancy Guthrie: 'We still believe Nancy is still out there'
- Together at last, Megadeth and Harry Styles rule the Billboard charts
- Where are all the protest songs?
- Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census
- Some Public Health Service officers deployed in detention centers suffer 'moral distress'
- 'More relevant every day' in the U.S.: A filmmaker documented Russia's journalists
- Measles continues to spread in the US, but with some letup