The industry trade group held one of its two annual meetings in Kodiak Oct. 14 and 15 — the first time the island community hosted in at least 20 years.
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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On this week's Talk of the Rock, with host Davis Hovey, we hear about Kodiak KINDNESS' expansion into the Northwest Arctic Borough with two new peer counselors. Nauyaq Baltzar of Kotzebue, Frances Williams of Ambler, Heather Preece of Kodiak and others with KINDNESS join us for this conversation.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Hunter Morrison reports on a kelp seed hatchery, Alena Naiden of KNBA about a push for co-management of subsistence resources at the Alaska Federation of Native Convention, and Fish and Game will not open tanner crab fishing in Kodiak, Chignik, and the Peninsula for 2026.
Alaska News
- 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
- Thousands of Alaskans likely to go without food aid in November as federal shutdown drags on
- Agriculture is on the rise in Interior Alaska, but farmers often need side hustles to make ends meet
- ‘We got hope’: The few who remain in storm-ravaged Kipnuk race to rebuild
- As climate change threatens subsistence, Savoonga is going from reindeer herding to a red meat industry
- Alaska’s 2024-25 tourism season was a record year — but just barely
NPR National News
- Suspects arrested over the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris
- Shooting leaves 1 dead and 6 hurt at historically Black university's homecoming fest in Pennsylvania
- Trump attends ceasefire ceremony with Thailand and Cambodia during Malaysia visit
- Category 4 Hurricane Melissa threatens catastrophic flooding in Jamaica and Haiti
- The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history
- Trump threatens Canada with 10% extra import tax over anti-tariffs ad
- June Lockhart, beloved mother figure from 'Lassie' and 'Lost In Space,' dies at 100
- First, came the Louvre heist. Then came the memes
- Picasso portrait of muse Dora Maar, long hidden from view, sells for $37 million
- Drone photo winners will amaze your eyeballs: From a high-up horseman to a holy river