Throughout last year the nonprofit Kodiak Island Housing Authority was working with RurAL CAP and Koniag, Inc. on a self-help housing project in Kodiak. The organizations were waiting to find out if USDA would award them a million dollars to go ahead with the build.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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This week we hear about the growth of the kelp and mariculture industry in Kodiak, a new public use cabin near Pasagshak River, an investigation into a long time Kodiak doctor's death, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is considering a limit on short-term rentals, the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board is reviewing the Second Floor's license renewal and its transfer license application in relation to local Restaurant or Eating Place Licenses (REPLs), and a story from the Northern Journal about the last skipper in Ouzinkie and the overall limited entry program in Alaska.
Talk of the Rock
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Host Jared Griffin speaks with KMXT's Senior Reporter Brian Venua about his recent trip to document KIBSD's teacher recruitment in the Philippines.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KRBD's Jack Darrell reports that the Board of Fish isn't quite ready to open squid fishing in Southeast, The snow crab is starting to flow into Unalaska, according to Maggie Nelson of KUCB, and federal regulators are considering a chum salmon cap in the Bering Sea pollock fishery, story by KUCB's Theo Greenly.
Alaska News
- In effort to foster more housing, Anchorage Assembly votes to temporarily waive building design requirements
- Judge rules that Anchorage officials can clear Midtown homeless camp
- Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- One officer ‘released from employment’ after Utqiagvik police transported a teen’s body in an open sled
- A deep dive on U.S. reading and math scores, and what to do about them
- Elementary athletes test their skills during Native Youth Olympics Junior competition in Juneau
- Nonresident hiring in Alaska hits new record, state analysis shows
- Alaska News Nightly: Monday, February 10, 2025
- Alaska Senate votes against inflation-adjusted pay for legislators and state execs
- National Transportation Safety Board chair visits Nome days after fatal Bering Air crash
NPR National News
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- Republicans split on best path to advance Trump's agenda in Congress
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- Trump funding freeze could leave communities on their own as climate threats grow
- Trump official targeting Jan. 6 investigators worked on those cases himself
- She wanted to be a mom. So she chose a cancer treatment that gave her a chance
- Lost songs from Alvin Ailey's 'Revelations' find voice in new piece
- When her young son was hit by a pickup truck, a stranger ran over to help
- Elon Musk's DOGE takes aim at agency that had plans of regulating X
- Trump ally Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case