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In an announcement Wednesday morning, Kodiak City Manager Mike Tvenge disclosed that a positive case of COVID-19 has been identified in Kodiak. This brings Kodiak’s total cases up to two. The first case, identified in April, has since recovered, and Kodiak has had no active cases for several weeks until now. In the announcement, Tvenge …

By Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen. (Courtesy University of Alaska) The head of Alaska’s public university system is potentially leaving the state to take over the helm of the University of Wisconsin System. The UW system announced Tuesday that Johnsen is the sole finalist to become its president. Johnsen will …

Global protests continue as communities rally against the police killing of George Floyd — and countless other black Americans before him. In Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau this weekend, hundreds of Alaskans turned out in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, peacefully protesting against institutional racism and injustice. Kodiak joined in on Sunday with a …

Mike Wall presents the Midday Report featuring national headlines from NPR, program updates and local stories on: new COVID-19 cases COVID-19 outbreak response Kodiak Island Borough mail-in ballot elections George Floyd protests in Kodiak, statewide CARES Act funding for fisheries Ocean Beauty and Icicle Seafoods merging plus, a weir update, Alaska Fish Radio, and updates …

By Hope McKenney, KUCB – Unalaska American Seafoods is based in Seattle and Dutch Harbor and maintains a fleet of six vessels that fish for pollock, hake, and sole out of both the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Credit Courtesy of American Seafoods Eighty-six crew members of an American Seafoods trawler have tested positive …

By Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska – Juneau The Petersburg Fisheries seafood plant, owned by Icicle Seafoods is and where the company got its start in 1965. (KFSK file photo) Two of Alaska’s largest seafood companies are merging their salmon processing businesses. Icicle Seafoods and Ocean Beauty Seafoods will be combining forces to create OBI Seafoods. Talks …

On Thursday, May 28, 2020 KMXT broadcast a public update meeting about COVID-19 and the upcoming fishing season in the Bristol Bay region. This is the audio from that meeting.

UPDATE: At a COVID-19 press briefing on Friday, Governor Mike Dunleavy announced that the 14-day quarantine mandate for out-of-state travelers to Alaska will end Friday, June 5. Instead, travelers to the state will be asked to take a coronavirus test within 72 hours, and test negative for the virus, before they make their flight from …

by Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage Screenshot from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services COVID-19 dashboard, showing this week’s cases, taken on May 29, 2020. (Data from https://coronavirus-response-alaska-dhss.hub.arcgis.com/) There are six new coronavirus cases in Alaska from Thursday, following a spike in positive tests the day before, according to the state Department of Health …

By Eric Stone, KRBD – Ketchikan There’s a lot to keep track of when it comes to COVID-19 and Alaska’s response to the pandemic. Reporters all over the state are talking to experts and local Alaskans every day about the impact the virus is having on our lives. And still, there are questions. Lots and lots …