Kelp Fest is three days of learning about and celebrating mariculture on the island and the ways it can be used in the future. It kicked off July 24 and ends July 26.
Midday Report
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On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines: A rockslide shut down travel in the Yukon on Tuesday afternoon, stranding cruise ship passengers. The investment manager at the center of an email leak controversy at the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. is resigning from her seat on the board. And U.S. and Canadian fighter jets intercepted two Russian and two Chinese aircraft Wednesday that were flying through international airspace off Alaska.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode, host Jared Griffin speaks with the cast of "After the Rain King", this year's Summer Youth Theatre production with the Kodiak Arts Council. Cast members joining Jared at KMXT studios were: Emery Cadwell, Delaney Glenn, Sophia Heitman-Williams, Alivia Johnson, and Ivan Wellner, with assistant director Kylie Eaton.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week KYUK's Evan Erickson reports on a report from the federal General Accountability Office that is critical of both fisheries observer programs and bycatch monitoring, Colleen Love for KTNA on record low king salmon returns in Susitna Valley rivers, and another post from Evan Erickson about the final report from the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force.
Other podcasts
Alaska News
- Alaska News Nightly: Friday, July 26, 2024
- In third act of Anchorage’s accounting ‘cautionary tale,’ a CFO races to close $147M deal
- It’s dipnetting season, and Alaskans say the annual tradition is about more than just filling their freezers
- CDC amends new rules for dogs entering U.S.
- U.S. automakers had a punishing week — with a silver lining for shoppers
- Bill mandating end to use of PFAS-containing firefighting foams becomes law in Alaska
NPR National News
- Island Byways for July 26, 2024
- 'Deadpool & Wolverine' is a self-cannibalizing slog
- The Obamas have endorsed Harris, capping a week where Democrats embraced her
- Martin Indyk, former U.S. diplomat and author, dies at 73
- From Obama to Harris, a look at what's changed
- An electrode in the brain restores the career of saxophonist Joey Berkley