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According to the study, the number of tufted puffins counted on the archipelago's breeding colonies have dropped by 88% since 1975.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we hear about Invasive Species Awareness Week in Kodiak, Coast Guard Base Kodiak is getting a new child development center, funding cuts and high fuel costs hamper salmon weirs and surveys, an interview with one of 15 U.S. House of Rep. candidates Matt Schultz, and the Sun'aq Tribe is moving its preschool to the old North Star building.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we discuss a new short film documentary about Filipino culture and life in Alaska called Bridging Our Stories with the filmmaker, Rafael Bitanga. Bitanga is from the Philippines and went to school in Kodiak.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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(MaryCait Dolan/KYUK)This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Avery Ellfeldt of KHNS reports on mixed feelings about reopening the Chilkat sport king salmon fishery, KYUK's Samantha Watson on the Kuskokwim's Return of the Salmon event, and Katherine Irving adds a story from the studios of KMXT on the cost of gathering survey data.
Alaska News
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- Bill to protect youth in psychiatric hospitals dies after Dunleavy veto
- Preliminary necropsy shows dead fin whale in Seward had injuries consistent with vessel strike
- With Murkowski's help, Senate votes to restrain Trump’s power to wage war on Iran
- State advances over four hundred projects in bid for Rural Health Transformation Program funding
- Anderson under evacuation orders as lightning sparks Interior Alaska wildfires
- An endangered, pregnant fin whale arrived in Seward dead on a cruise ship bow
- Alaska lawmakers seek gas pipeline tax compromise as another special session begins
- It ‘doesn’t work,’ Gov. Dunleavy says of Senate Alaska LNG bill
- Gasline bill remains stalled in Senate as Dunleavy vetoes 9 bills, threatens another special session
NPR National News
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- Trump keeps sabotaging legislation over a voting bill. Here's what's in it
- Eager for a break, farmers don't expect much relief after the Iran peace deal
- Trump is pushing to institutionalize the homeless. That may include veterans
- When going to 'camp' meant Roman military lodgings — not summer fun
- Norman Rockwell art that ignited a lawsuit and a love story is now on public view
- With a Round of 32 spot already clinched, the U.S. takes on Turkey in the World Cup