Coming up this week, summer salmon fishing gears up with Copper River’s first opening; cannery bosses in Unalaska are handling the state’s new, higher minimum wage by raising the rent they charge folks who come up and stay in their bunkhouses; and we get get a preview of the Yukon salmon season. We had help from KCHU’s Marcia Lynn reporting …

On Talk of the Rock today, the Baranof Museum’s Anjuli Grantham tells us about the multi-media project she’s spearheading about the history of Kodiak Island’s West Side. She’s joined by her collaborators, Toby Sullivan, Brianna Petersen, and Tiffany Brunson.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An aging baby boomer population and a stagnate birthrate have caused Alaska’s population to fall for the first time since the 1980s recession. The Alaska Dispatch News reports (http://bit.ly/1G1r5ZR ) that the population dropped by 61 people between July 2013 and July 2014. The last time the population dropped was in 1987 to 1988. Additionally, more …

Ed Schoenfeld/CA Gov. Bill Walker has a plan to keep most ferries running during the busy tourist season. Alaska Marine Highway spokesman Jeremy Woodrow says the governor is shifting $5.5 million in unused money from this year’s fuel fund to next year’s operating budget. “That will allow the marine highway system to operate its summer schedule without any major changes, …

Coming up this week, there’s a new CEO for Icicle Seafoods, but is he there just to oversee its break up or sale? Don Young says he wants to keep legal beagles out of fisheries, and it’s blessing of the fleet time in Juneau. All that, and they used to blow up fish in the name of science! We had …

Annie Ropeik/KUCB The state ferry Tustumena has already missed its first sailings in May as it undergoes repairs in shipyard. Now, it’s delayed again — but its first trip to the Aleutians isn’t set to change. The ferry will spend five extra days off the water, making its first trip between Homer, Seldovia and Kodiak on May 17. It will …

A bell was cast for the Russian Orthodox Church in Kodiak in 1796 and discovered in an orange grove in California over 130 years later. In 2013, a Russian bell was brought to Kodiak from California, but it wasn’t the same bell. In this episode, a Russian bell expert, Father Innocent Dresdow, and others discuss the history of Russian bells, …

 Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley crew members place grave markers at a cemetery in Atka, Alaska, April 21, 2015. The hand-made crosses replaced those planted by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Storis during community outreach in 2006. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

Coming up this week, Togiak herring opened up this week, direct marketing of salmon is getting a boost, and the delegation from the state’s largest fishing port decline to sign a letter asking for a huge cut in bycatch. We had help from KDLG’s Dave Bendinger in Dillingham, KCAW’s Robert Woolsey in Sitka, KMXT’s Kayla Desroches in Kodiak, and KBBI’s …

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Senate has voted to accept a budget proposal that, without the support of House Democrats, could leave state government partially funded. The House’s Democratic-led minority has opposed cuts to education included in the budget, as well as the budget’s rejection of negotiated pay raises for labor union contracts for next year, among other things. …