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A weekly update of local events and what's happening in the great outdoors on Kodiak Island - Alaska's Emerald Isle.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:A fire burned through the public safety building and city jail in the Western Alaska coastal community of Chevak. Samoans and other Pacific Islanders gather in an Anchorage park all summer long to play their distinct form of cricket. And a pilot and three passengers were seriously injured this weekend in a floatplane crash in Katmai National Park.

A weekly update of local events and what's happening in the great outdoors on Kodiak Island - Alaska's Emerald Isle.

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 Terry Haines:The U.S. Department of Education is withholding nearly $7 billion in education funding for programs that range from migrant education to English language instruction and gifted education. Gov. Mike Dunleavy is now asking roughly half of the Alaska state House not to show up for the first five days of the special session he called. And reactions to Sen. Murkowski's Big Beautiful Vote.

On today's Midday report with host Davis Hovey: A recap of Kodiak's recent renaissance fair, the Trump administration revives hopes for the Pebble Mine, an update on wildfires in the Interior as firefighters shift efforts towards Nenana, a report on the high cost of living in Juneau compared to the state's other major cities and a bowhead whale poop study's surprising findings.

This week we hear about more than half a million dollars in federal grant money slated for Kodiak College is frozen, the Alutiiq Museum's archaeology team has pieced together a historical timeline for Shuyak Island, the City approved its FY26 budget, the borough is on the hook for a quarter million dollars for school bond debt, and another dead whale washed up on Surfer's Beach.

This week we hear about the vacant position for the director of engineering and facilities at the Kodiak Island Borough, the City of Kodiak approved an agreement with a new city manager, the federal government has frozen more than a million in grants that would fund KIBSD programs, NOAA has multiple research vessels conducting surveys this month, ADF&G raises catch limits for sockeye in Kodiak area rivers and some of the Kodiak Alutiiq Dancers participate in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C.

On today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey:Sockeye catch limits raised in Kodiak area rivers while Chinook salmon restrictions tightened in Kodiak area and Gulf of Alaska. St. Paul Island hasn't received air cargo such as groceries in over a month. A new state law clarifies taxes for Turo vehicle owners in Alaska. And a group protesting male circumcision is touring around the Alaska road-system.

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:What just happened at Saturday's Special Session of the Alaska Legislature? Is Senator Murkowski thinking about running for Governor? And what do very deep boreholes have to do with coal fired powerplants?