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On today’s Midday Report with host Kirsten Dobroth: a research team based out of Nome plans to map the seafloor, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan says Chinese nationals posing as tourists drove through Fort Wainwright’s main gate and onto the post before being stopped by security personnel, and Unalaska celebrates Pride.

Pride Month is celebrated across the country and internationally each June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, which are considered a watershed moment for the LGBTQ+ community’s fight for equality. In Kodiak, both the city and borough have issued proclamations observing June as Pride Month. KMXT’s news director Kirsten Dobroth spoke …

Today on the midday report with host Brian Venua: Koniag Inc has revamped their shareholder business directory, the state’s ferries have 150 openings but haven’t processed their 200 applications, Fairbanks is changing how they regulate animal control and dogs, and we hear about Mary Peltola’s views on the firearms. Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola in the …

Today on the midday report with host Brian Venua: Alaska’s Board of Game made some new decisions regarding trapping, we hear from the Bristol Bay Sustainability Summit, and new reports suggest the Alaska Legislature is short $680 million from its initial budget plan. The Board of Game meets at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex on …

Host Pam Foreman talks with Marion Owen about gardening in Kodiak. Marion shares some tips on how to maintain healthy soil and plants in Kodiak’s climate – whether you garden in a hoop house or a container – and what you can be doing now to get things going in the garden.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: For the first time in recent history, Alaska legislators in both parties and the governor are talking about implementing a broad-based tax. School districts are waiting anxiously to see if the Alaska Legislature will increase school funding after years of stagnant state support. And the Sitka School …

On today’s Midday Report with host Mike Wall: On the same day the first cruise ship of 2023 docked in Juneau city officials signed an agreement with the cruise industry to start limiting visitor volume. And Anchorage police officials say they’re moving forward with getting body cameras on officers, even though they’re locked in a …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Last year’s sockeye salmon surplus is pushing down the wholesale price this year. The Kenai Peninsula Borough will pay more than $200,000 to settle a harassment against former borough mayor Charlie Pierce. And a portion of the Coast Guard Band is scheduled to visit Kodiak on Wednesday. …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week KDLL’s Sabine Poux reports on an emergency rockfish reduction, Desiree Hagen tells of testing for toxic algal blooms, courtesy of KOTZ, and Yukon River salmon forecasts are the subject of a story from Dan Bross, of KUAC fame.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A thirty foot Unangax̂ open skin boat will be the first of its kind to touch water in over two centuries. The Chilkat River has been nominated by as one of ten most endangered rivers in the country. And the Alaska House approved an operating budget on …