Last week, the state-owned Alaska Aerospace Corporation formally committed to work with an Israeli start-up. The agreement aims to send more payloads into space using a unique launch system at a cheaper cost.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we hear about a trash fire at the Kodiak Island landfill, Kodiak KINDNESS gets a surprise check from Credit Union 1, Alaska Public Media reports on the state House passing it's budget with a $1,500 PFD, KHNS reports on shipping companies like Matson increasing their rates this month, and the USDA has created an Office of Seafood to treat fishermen like farmers of the sea.
Talk of the Rock
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Join host Jared Griffin as he talks with the cast and crew of "You Can't Take It With You", a spring production of the Kodiak Shakesbears and Drama Club. Featuring: Lydia Dagen, Delaney Glenn, Holly Olsen, and Ivan Wellner.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey reports on the creation of the USDA's new Office of Seafood, Hope McKenney of KCAW on the Sitka Assembly voting against a sweetheart lease deal for a local hatchery, and a story of sea ice prognostication from Ben Townsend and KNOM.
Alaska News
- Democratic U.S. House PAC has Alaska in its sights
- Senators condemn Trump administration's National Park Service cuts and $10B 'slush fund'
- Senate committee eyes smaller tax break for Alaska LNG project
- Raising Alaska’s age of consent headlines 10-bill package of crime legislation
- Energy secretary says Alaska LNG is his No. 1 infrastructure priority
- Metlakatla's commercial fishing rights represent 'alternate reality' that tribe hopes to expand
- Alaskans flock to U.S. Capitol to pitch economic development
- Rural Alaska students can now apply for weekly summer meal boxes
- An emergency food program served thousands of Alaskans. A gap will remain when it ends.
- Coast Guard says two new icebreakers will be homeported somewhere in Alaska
NPR National News
- Airlines in Europe slash thousands of flights as Iran war cuts jet fuel supplies
- Can a mentalist trick Trump? Oz Pearlman will try in a room full of journalists
- Ella Langley tops the charts — and Coachella gives Bieber a boost
- Michael Tilson Thomas, renowned conductor and composer, dies at 81
- How mosquitoes — and malaria — helped shape the whereabouts of early humankind
- Trump administration eases rules on some marijuana categories. Here's what to know
- Trump will welcome envoys of Lebanon and Israel at the White House for talks
- Two startlingly different views on long-awaited data on America's anti-HIV efforts
- AI's a suck up. Research shows how it flatters and suggests we're not to blame
- How TikTok is driving American expats to Southeast Asia