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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Only two companies bid in the state’s first royalty-free Cook Inlet natural gas lease sale. It was a very tuba Christmas at the Anchorage Performing Arts Center. And St. Paul plans to revitalize reindeer meat processing in the Pribilofs. Neal Haglund, a retired school band teacher, has conducted TubaChristmas for most of …

The Kodiak Island Borough School District received a bomb threat via email late morning on Dec. 18. Classes are currently on winter break, but the remaining staff were sent home. The district usually has a handful of administrative staff at the superintendent’s office over winter break, but the parking lot was empty, December 18, 2023. (Brian Venua/KMXT) Cyndy Mika is …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines A recent report to Congress on gaps in law enforcement response to cases of missing and murdered Native people had a special chapter just on Alaska. Landslides are almost impossible to forecast precisely. But scientists say more data could help. And The small Kasilof Historical Museum recently acquired two maritime navigation lanterns …

Gerry Cobban Knagin and her family fished for Trident on and off for decades. She said the announcement was a huge shock for almost everyone on the island.  “Speaking with [Trident] management, there wasn’t any heads up for anyone,” she said. “And they decided, according to management, that they wanted full transparency so that the fleet would know, they don’t …

On today’s Midday Report with host Brian Venua: Dillingham police set off explosives at the city’s landfill with help from the FBI. Alaska Public Media’s Jeremy Hsieh investigates who’s behind ads attacking Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson. KRBD’s Jack Darrell reports on the indigenous knowledge being incorporated into federal policy on Alexander Archipelago wolves. Listen here:   Mr. Ben Coronell, Yanyeidi …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: It is a double dose of KYUK’s Evan Erickson as he reports on the early lives of chum salmon, and a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service. Plus Brian Venua on Trident’s Alaska divestiture. Chum salmon swimming upriver. (Stori Oates/NOAA Fisheries)  

On today’s Midday Report with host Brian Venua: Trident Seafoods is selling four of their Alaska plants, including the one in Kodiak. The Board of Fish is making decisions on Cook Inlet sport fishing. And kids in Ambler are making their own school merchandise. (Brian Venua/KMXT) Listen here:    

Trident Seafoods, one of the biggest seafood processors in the country, announced on Dec. 12 that it’s selling a third of its Alaska plants. Four of Trident’s processing plants in Alaska are now for sale – in Kodiak, Ketchikan, Petersburg, and False Pass. The company also announced a significantly scaled-back winter season for their year-round plant in Kodiak. The historic …