Kodiak has significantly fewer students than predicted for the second year in a row after the school district completed its student count on Oct. 24. It’s going to be a major consideration as school officials revise the current year’s budget, and plan for next year.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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This week with host Davis Hovey, we hear about Malia Villegas winning an AFN award, Kodiak KINDNESS has hired two new peer counselors in the Northwest Arctic Borough, Kodiak's legislators give an update on the state's finances, the head of Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center leaves the hospital, KIBSD's superintendent has announced this school year will be her last in Kodiak, and the new city manager is leaving the City of Kodiak at the end of the month.
Talk of the Rock
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According to the state of Alaska's division of public assistance, "due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has directed all states to suspend the issuance of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for November 2025.As a result, the Division of Public Assistance (DPA) is unable to issue November SNAP benefits until further notice from the Food and Nutrition Service."As a result, roughly 66,000 Alaskans who receive SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, will go without in November unless the federal government shutdown ends before then.On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we chat with the local food bank and a local food producer about what assistance is available to those who could go hungry in the coming days and how we as a community can help.To get in touch with the Kodiak food bank, which is run by the Salvation Army, stop by their location on Mission Road between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays during food distribution times, or call the food bank directly at 907 486 0086.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:Davis Hovey and Brian Venua discuss the recent meeting of the United Fishermen of Alaska in Kodiak, Olivia Rose of KFSK reports on the first red king crab fishery in eight years in Southeast Alaska, and the sport fish survey is about to hit mailboxes.
Alaska News
- From food to financing, Alaska Native organizations feel the shutdown's pinch
- Despite shutdown, feds say Essential Air Service will remain funded through Nov. 18
- SBA opens low-interest loans to Western Alaska residents affected by storms
- Western Alaska evacuees begin moving from Anchorage shelters into hotels
- How Murkowski is setting herself apart from fellow Republicans now
- Dog evacuations continue from Western Alaska villages hit hard by remnants of Typhoon Halong
- Trump administration re-approves Ambler Road corridor
- Extreme avalanche seasons can spur major mountain goat population declines
- Alaska prisons offer limited opioid addiction treatment, and experts say it costs lives
- Evacuees in Anchorage say they’re feeling a mix of gratitude and grief
NPR National News
- Trump administration sets lowest-ever cap on refugee admissions to U.S.
- Trial set over NPR allegations that CPB yielded to White House pressure
- Dave, British rap's warrior-king, confronts the perils of power
- Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here's what that would mean
- Scientists thought this fossil was a teen T. rex. Turns out it's a new tyrannosaur
- If SNAP food aid is cut off, small grocery stores also will feel the pain
- A town in northeast China has shrunk by a third since 2010. Here's one family's story
- Hundreds killed in Darfur hospital massacre, 'hero' doctors abducted
- Olivia Dean and Leon Thomas hit top 10 on the pop chart, joining an exclusive club
- Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally