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Alaska Aerospace owns and operates the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island near Narrow Cape, which will be the anchor for the 1,100-mile Pacific Test Range stretching southwest to Adak.
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The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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KMXTThis week we hear about the latest rocket launch from the Kodiak Island spaceport, a "plus-up" underway at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, more than 50 dead shearwaters found near Kodiak beaches, brown bears are wreaking havoc at the landfill, the Alutiiq Museum's annual meeting, and KIBSD school district staff prepare for the new school year.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we discuss the upcoming Alaska Confluence Summit coming to Kodiak later this month. Lee Hart with the Alaska Outdoor Alliance and Brock Simmons with Discover Kodiak preview the upcoming event and discuss the local and statewide regenerative economy.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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(Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Ashlyn O'Hara reports on a sport fishing roundtable all around king salmon from KDLL, and KNBA's Rhonda McBride about a subsistence win on the Kuskokwim.
Alaska News
- Alaska officials refused group's request for murdered Indigenous people's names
- Nonprofit coordinating Arctic research will shut down as federal funding dries up
- U.S. House votes to repeal Central Yukon land plan
- ‘We got a tired Tustumena’: State to open bids for long-awaited ferry replacement
- Should Alaskans be able to sue over SNAP delays? State, citing Supreme Court, says no.
- Alaska researchers find clues in destructive Tracy Arm landslide
- Alaskans could vote on ballot initiative to expand psychedelic access
- Anchorage opens new shelter as part of shift in homelessness strategy
- New APU lab will help Alaska communities test for microplastics
- 'The time is now,' Rep. Begich tells Alaska's oil and gas industry
NPR National News
- Watching a neighbor's cat turns lethal in 'Caught Stealing'
- Hundreds of South Koreans are among 475 detained in a Georgia immigration raid
- Four Democratic senators urge Smithsonian to resist White House attempts to 'bully the institution'
- Greetings from Guhagar, India, where newly hatched turtles get some help into the sea
- Israel is blasting through Gaza City neighborhoods, but people have nowhere to go
- Horror, rom-coms and 'Hamilton' are all in theaters this weekend
- The U.S. added only 22,000 jobs last month, showing cracks in the labor market
- Why solar flares are way hotter than researchers thought
- Chinese public is divided over whether to seek global dominance or share leadership
- 'One and done' dose of LSD keeps anxiety at bay