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Springtime on Kodiak Island, Alaska's Emerald Isle.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: An organization in Southeast Alaska has won a half-million dollar grant to reduce the cost of trash disposal. Lawyers in Alaska are hoping to become a more diverse profession, and ideally more accessible. And the Alaska Department of Transportation has temporarily closed a trail across a desecrated burial ground.

The greening of Kodiak is in full force, bumble bee food is on the way, and The Ken Peltier Band will be in town later this month. Life on Alaska's Emerald Isle.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The federal government announced on Thursday that it’s requiring the state to update its water quality standards. A thunderstorm struck Juneau recently. And Researchers have linked warming ocean temperatures to more salmon showing up in the Western Canadian Arctic.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A project in the Bering Straits backed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will measure sea ice and phytoplankton. Every year, one dance group is chosen to lead the procession of dancers that begins and ends Celebration in Juneau. And two middle schoolers from White Mountain are headed to the National Civics Bee.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Alaska Judicial Council announced that it is accepting applications from attorneys and judges interested in replacing Chief Justice Peter Maassen. Farmers are welcoming this week’s heavy rainfall around the eastern and central Interior. And the family of a man fatally shot last month by Anchorage police is asking that they be allowed to view the footage of the shooting privately.

This week KDLG's Christina Mc Dermott reports on seafood restaurant dynamics that drive low prices, Theo Greenly of KUCB on petition pushback from Unalaska, and hatchery salmon gets a hearing in the State House.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A report about paralytic shellfish poisoning from Alaska Public Media's Kavitha George, KBBI's Jamie Diep on the effects of ocean acidification on razor clams, and Hannah Flor reports about an electronic monitoring bill that gets a lukewarm reception from industry.

On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK's Evan Erickson reports on concerns from Kuskokwim residents about trawlers working near salmon streams, and KFSK"s Shelby Herbert gets help from Jack Darrell of KRBD on a deep dive into the petition to list Gulf of Alaska king salmon as endangered.

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.