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Jared Griffin presents the Midday Report featuring national headlines from NPR, and state and local stories on: A record weekend for positive COVID-19 cases in Alaska and Kodiak, which saw five more COVID cases over the weekend The Kodiak Emergency Operations Center awards bicycles to the winners of their banner hunt Coast Guard rescue near …

Jared Griffin presents the Midday Report featuring an update from Kodiak’s Emergency Services Operation, and state and local stories on: Overview of tonight’s full agenda at the borough work session, where they’ll take up CARES Act funding Two kayakers went missing and found on Woody Island this morning New COVID-19 cases Pediatricians in Alaska push …

Pacific cod up close and personal. Photo courtesy of NOAA website. The closure of the 2020 Gulf of Alaska cod fishery qualifies as a fishery resource disaster because of the sudden, unexpected crash of the fish stock biomass. That’s according to a resolution being considered during tonight’s regular meeting of the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly. …

In this newscast: Medical workers union authorizes a strike on Saturday, holds an informational picket outside PKIMC, Gov. Dunleavy’s chief of staff announces the administration is asking the Legislature for AMHS repairs funding, Four children lost near Nunam Iqua, a village at the mouth of the Yukon River, located by ground searchers, A Togiak resident …

The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly tonight has a wide range of items on its agenda. Everything from an ordinance to change the rules for attendance and vacancies on the assembly to an invitation to Governor Mike Dunleavy to visit. A letter in the meeting packet invites the governor to come to Kodiak as part of …

Kodiak polling locations saw business as usual for voters over the course of Election Day this Tuesday. Anita Sholl, election official at the Mission Precinct, said that by mid-Tuesday afternoon they had seen nearly 900 voters, or about 125 voters an hour. There was even a line outside of Bayside Fire Department as early as …

The US Coast Guard entered the testimony from Dean Gribble, one of two survivors of the Scandies Rose sinking, into the hearing record on Monday. Gribble’s four-hour testimony was recorded in September 2020. Please note: Gribble’s testimony may contain information that listeners find distressing and disturbing due to the emotional nature of his story. Listen …

The oil spill in Womens Bay from the sunken vessel Saint Patrick has been responded to by the Coast Guard, along with a team of divers, according to a Wednesday press release from Coast Guard Sector Anchorage. The oil spill is suspected to have begun following an earthquake last week that may have disturbed the …

In recent decades, America has seen economic opportunities concentrated in superstar cities. Manufacturing boosters hope reshoring factories could help change that. We look at the theory and evidence.

Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, a Boston cop, in 2022. She maintains she was framed by police. Here's a refresher on the case — and a look at what's happened since last year's mistrial.