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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A student-run cafe in Igiugig offers refreshments to both community members and travelers flying across the vast expanse of the Bristol Bay region. Toyo stoves have been failing in cold weather. And the State Workers’ Union rallied for better staffing and benefits, and to support for Department …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reports that the Kodiak tanner crab season is nearly in the books, Eric Stone of KRBD on the snowballing opposition to the the lawsuit that would stop king salmon trolling, and Sage Smiley on the purifying power of kelp.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Brent Sass won the Yukon Quest 550 sled dog race in Fairbanks last night. School districts around the state are grappling with holes in their budgets for the coming school year. And the tanner crab fishery begins this weekend in Southeast Alaska. (Photo by Angela Denning/KFSK)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A nationwide outbreak of avian influenza is having impacts far beyond the grocery store. The Sitka Assembly will donate $25,000 to support a fight against a legal decision that could shut down SE king salmon trolling. And state officials say they have no authority to investigate a …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Oceana’s Jon Warrenchuk makes a case for a freezing the footprint of bottom trawling in the Gulf of Alaska, plus KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth with a tanner crab stand down update. Alberto Lindner/NOAA

Talk of the Rock host Jared Griffin sits down with Kodiak Harbormaster Dave Johnson to discuss the Ports and Harbor Advisory Board, the waterfront masterplan, and how funding Kodiak’s ports could poise the community to accommodate increased Arctic traffic. Listen here:

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Teachers, school administrators and parents rallied outside the capitol building last night to call for increased education funding. The Board of Game has voted down a proposal to require hunters in Southeast to complete an education course. And a petition to get rid of the state’s ranked …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A Cook Inlet natural gas producer is fighting the state and Kenai Peninsula Borough over property taxes. A small, vacant lot in downtown Juneau is at the center of a dispute between the state of Alaska and the U.S. Department of the Interior. And its been a …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth on the Tanner crab stand down, Senator Murkowski says fishery disaster money flows too slowly, the trials of a cucumber fisherman, and what will the Mariculture Cluster do with the money? The giant red sea cucumber

On today’s midday report with host Kirsten Dobroth: Sen. Lisa Murkowski addresses legislators in Juneau, Trident reopens its processing plant in downtown Wrangell, and a mushroom farmer in Southeast aims to put more local fungi on people’s plates.