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The Borough Assembly has approved $10.5 million for the Kodiak Island Borough School District for the next school year. This is about half a million less than what the school district had requested, but nearly $1 million more than they received last year. Some Assembly members, such as Duane Dvorak supported funding to the school …

May 20, 2021 by Greg Kim, KYUK – Bethel Rep. Tiffany Zulkosky, D-Bethel, speaks during a House floor session in the Alaska Capitol in Juneau on Feb. 23, 2020. (Photo by Skip Gray/KTOO) The Alaska House of Representatives has passed two bills sponsored by Rep. Tiffany Zulkosky, D-Bethel. House Bill 123, a bill for the state legislature …

After months of planning, the Sun’aq Tribe will be hosting its Alutiiq Festival along Near Island’s North End Trail this Saturday. According to Alyssa Madrid, Cultural Program Coordinator for the Sun’aq Tribe, the festival will be held outdoors due to the pandemic. “We decided to have an outdoor festival this time around. And with that, …

USCGC Polar Sea, a decommissioned heavy icebreaker. (US Coast Guard) When Alaska state representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (KRISE-TOMkins) from Sitka read that the Coast Guard was going to send three new icebreakers to port in Seattle, instead of Alaska, he had one word: “Baloney.” In a meeting of the House’s Military and Veteran’s Affairs committee on …

The legislation extends for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.

STEM careers are still lagging when it comes to hiring women of color.

The bill, now advancing to the Senate, represents the most serious threat yet to the video app used by half of Americans.

In a parking lot and on San Francisco Bay, NPR witnesses two different tests for solar geoengineering to tackle climate change. With much science unsettled, experts say regulations aren't keeping up.

Two Alaska Native girls who died more than 100 years ago at a boarding school in Pennsylvania – including one from Kodiak Island – will return home. Earlier this summer, the U.S. Army began the process of returning the remains of eight Indigenous children from the school to their families across the country. Anastasia Ashouwak, …

Listen to this story; Child care is hard to access in Kodiak, as it is around the United States. The Sun’aq Tribe in Kodiak is trying to address the problem; Registration is now open for the tribe’s new Aluttingcut child care program. The tribe opened the program amid a rise in demand for local childcare …