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On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Davis Hovey talks with Kerry Irons and Jim Pryor of the Kodiak Island Borough School District's Board of Education about the board's recent decision to close North Star Elementary School and next steps in the budget process.

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:Chaos reigns as the on-again, off-again federal spending freeze poses more questions than answers. The Governor gives himself high marks in the State of the State speech. And an expensive fighter jet crashes at Eielson Air Force Base.

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:Anchorage saw nearly three dozen homicides last year, coming close to its modern record. Over $130 million in grants for clean energy projects in rural Alaska are now frozen after President Trump signed an executive order. And the Eklutna Tribe has a mini casino up and running.

A short weekly look at life on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

This week we hear about the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly's and potentially the City Council's protests of the Second Floor license renewal application to the state, a recently passed federal law called the FISHES Act and how it could speed up the fishery disaster process, and the KIBSD Board of Education's decision to close North Star Elementary school next year and consolidate its students with Main and East Elementary; along with some follow up information on which principals will lead those three remaining elementary schools.

On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin talks winter sports with Derek Clarkston, sports reporter for the Kodiak Daily Mirror, and Deb Rohrer, KIBSD Activities Director.

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KCAW's Katherine Rose reports that the Sitka Fish and Game Advisory Committee is against herring fishing in Promisla Bay after all, The Aleut Community of St. Paul has signed a joint management agreement with the federal government, according to Theo Greenly of KUCB, and Davis Hovey tells of a sped-up fishery disaster system from the studios of KMXT.

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:The Alaska Board of Education and Early Development released a draft statewide cell phone policy for students. Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday praised a series of executive orders President Donald Trump issued shortly after taking office. And powerful winter storm systems are set to impact most of western, northern and interior Alaska from Thursday evening through the weekend.

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:State lawmakers convened in Juneau yesterday to kick off the first session of the 34th Alaska Legislature. President Trump is in favor of a gas pipeline in Alaska, but state lawmakers remain skeptical. And a mini-protest in Soldotna.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:Investigators are still determining what caused the Bering Air plane crash near Nome on Thursday that killed all 10 people on board. A lawsuit that clouded the future of homeschooling in Alaska for months last spring took on new life Thursday. And Bethel’s Pete Kaiser has won his 9th Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race.