Brian Venua
Senior ReporterBorn and raised in Dillingham, Brian Venua attended Gonzaga University before graduating and ultimately returning to Alaska. He moved to Kodiak and joined KMXT in 2022. Venua has since won awards for the newsroom as both a writer and photojournalist, with work focused on strengthening community, breaking down complex topics, and sharing stories of and for the people of the Kodiak Archipelago.
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In today's Midday Report with Host Brian Venua: 20,000 pounds of groceries finally arrived on St. Paul Island after more than a month of delays, the Environmental Protection Agency is sticking with its veto of the proposed Pebble Mine, Mike Sfraga, the former Ambassador to the Arctic is UAF's new interim chancellor, the state is being called to seize more animals from a wildlife facility outside Haines, a commercial contractor helping fight fires was vandalized, and the Doyon Foundation was awarded millions to focus on a language learning game. -
This week we hear a recap of the tsunami warning and later all clear in Kodiak and the Alaska Peninsula, Congress voted to cut public media funding, the state government has struggled to keep up with Alaskans applying for government benefits, and inside Kodiak's sole operational kelp hatchery. -
In today's Midday Report with Host Brian Venua: more areas of Alaska's waters will be monitored for emergencies via VHF radio, biologists are researching three-spined sticklebacks in Lake Iliamna, the state could lower its opiod overdose deaths, and Samoans regularly gather in Anchorage to play cricket. -
On today's Midday Report with Host Brian Venua: a summary of yesterday's tsunami warnings, the senate voted to claw back funding for public media, a Juneau man was convicted of a murder, some Nome biologists are trying to grow fish stocks, and Sitka's 4H program is learning about pH. -
The National Weather Service issued the all clear at 2:45 this afternoon after a tsunami warning and advisory were issued for the region. -
The Emergency Operations Center signaled the all clear at 2:45 p.m. after a tsunami warning was issued for Kodiak Island, the Alaska Peninsula and up to both sides of Cook Inlet. -
About 50 people came to celebrate whimsy and fantasy role playing in heavy rain last Saturday. -
Tribal and federal staff collected baleen from the young gray whale that washed up on Surfer's Beach late last month in part to study it. The rest of the corpse is still on the beach near the parking lot. -
Saltery Cove joins the Buskin and Ayakulik Rivers with sport sockeye limits being raised to 10 fish per day. -
It's another hit to Alaska school budgets after Gov. Mike Dunleavy cut funding approved by the state Legislature in June.
