It's another hit to Alaska school budgets after Gov. Mike Dunleavy cut funding approved by the state Legislature in June.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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This week we hear about more than half a million dollars in federal grant money slated for Kodiak College is frozen, the Alutiiq Museum's archaeology team has pieced together a historical timeline for Shuyak Island, the City approved its FY26 budget, the borough is on the hook for a quarter million dollars for school bond debt, and another dead whale washed up on Surfer's Beach.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin discusses this weekend's Renaissance Faire with organizers.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KUCB's Theo Greenly reports that Unalaska has finally started to see some crab disaster money, KDLG's Kendra Hannah on a prediction of bigger fish in the Bay this year, from KBBI Simon Lopez reports that Alaskans will be able to harvest dungies in Cook Inlet, and efforts to map the Pacific herring genome are underway, according to Desiree Hagen of KOTZ.
Alaska News
- Alaska lawmakers plan rare use of subpoenas to get oil tax data
- Anchorage Mayor LaFrance proposes criminalizing homeless camping near schools, trails and playgrounds
- Alaskans divided on bargain Murkowski struck on GOP megabill
- Alaska's iconic Mount Marathon race features talent-packed field
- To stymie veto overrides, Dunleavy asks Republicans to skip beginning of special session
- Anchorage Assembly gives go-ahead for RV Resort in east downtown
- State seizes 39 animals from a wildlife facility outside Haines
- Ahead of high school, some Anchorage teens earn early credits through cosmetology
- New monument recognizes Dena’ina name for Anchorage peak
- Gov. Dunleavy calls for August special legislative session in Juneau
NPR National News
- Impostor uses AI to impersonate Rubio and contact foreign and U.S. officials
- Supreme Court allows Trump to resume mass federal layoffs for now
- Graphics: Where the Texas floods happened and how high the waters rose
- Prime Day — er, Days — tests deal hunters' will to spend amid tariffs
- Haiti's iconic Hotel Oloffson, long a cultural beacon, destroyed by gang violence
- New books this week focus on Caitlin Clark, King Tut, and how 'Democrats Lost America'
- Shoes off at the airport? TSA gives the pesky rule the boot
- Texas flood death toll tops 100 and more than 160 people are missing, Gov. Abbott says
- With Indus Waters Treaty in the balance, Pakistan braces for more water woes
- IRS says churches can now endorse political candidates