NASA/Goddard/OceanColor/MODIS
The nutrients are vital for plankton, the base of the food chain that sustains the state's fisheries
Ellen Carty-Seccomb/Kodiak College
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, the Alaska Beacon reports on changes to advance reservations for public cabins, the Kodiak commercial salmon seiner Emily Rose gets some help from Good Samaritan vessels, Coast Guard Base Kodiak hosted a 9/11 25th anniversary ceremony, a recap of the gubernatorial fisheries debate in Kodiak, state Sen. Gary Stevens is retiring from the Legislature, and KIBSD's Board of Education is considering closing East Elementary school.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, KMXT hosts a live call-in show featuring John Oberst, the president and CEO of Alaska Aerospace Corporation, and Board Chair Lindsay Knight.If you didn't get an opportunity to call-in or if you still have questions about the spaceport at Narrow Cape, email your questions to news@kmxt.org.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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(Kodiak Chamber of Commerce)On this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines:Coverage of the Kodiak Fisheries Debates from Liz Ruskin of Alaska Public Media, and Davis Hovey of KMXT, plus its an otter disaster for crabbers in Southeast Alaska, story from KSTK's Leilani Combs.
Alaska News
- Poll shows Democrat with lead in Alaska governor’s race, but large swaths remain undecided
- Alaska hunting guide and teen employee named as victims in fatal plane crash east of Nabesna
- 8 candidates, 3 debates: Tune into Debate for the State this October
- It’s Fat Bear Week. Meet this year’s heavyset hopefuls
- Plane crash near Nabesna kills 2
- Whittier’s new $80M dock considered total loss after fire
- Elder Alaskans increasingly vulnerable to dying by suicide, according to data
- Sullivan’s trawl bycatch bill clears a U.S. Senate committee
- Republican Treg Taylor leans on experience as attorney general in gubernatorial pitch
- Thousands of gallons of water used to extinguish Whittier dock fire, officials say
NPR National News
- DOJ defends White House media ban, urges court to reject lawsuit
- Major news outlets banned by Trump will have their day in court
- How an 'AI freeze' could make big AI companies bigger and hurt smaller firms
- African pop was poised for a U.S. takeover. Can its stars finish the job?
- Poll: Trust in the U.S. Postal Service delivering mail-in ballots on time has fallen
- As Congress confronts AI, Senate lawmakers are shut off from its most advanced tools
- Poll: Most voters agree the 2026 midterms are all about Trump — and they disapprove
- ICE is looking into 'mobile detention facilities'
- Category 5 Hurricane Polo is 'one of the strongest storms ever'
- Trump administration to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims