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The Tustumena, a ferry that shuttles passengers between communities like Homer, Kodiak, and Unalaska, is laid up in a shipyard in Seward for repairs.  “(It’s) not something that we can fix while it’s in the water,” said Sam Dapcevich, a public information officer for the Alaska Marine Highway System. “So they’re going to haul it out in Seward and evaluate …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: El Nino conditions are forecast to persist through the winter. Rural Alaska could see drone deliveries in its future. And a humpback whale calf known as Tango that washed up dead near Auke Bay earlier this summer was killed by a large boat. An unmanned delivery drone in Alaska.

The Kodiak Island Borough finalized last week’s election results after a recount last night. After a tight race, Steven Ames will join the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly. The borough clerk’s office initiated a recount, which put Ames ahead of candidate Monique Lewis by just 16 votes. Last week he held a lead of just eight votes. The three seats for …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KYUK’s Evan Erickson reports on building a better bycatch map, chum salmon may be moving on up to the Arctic, story by Dan Bross of KUAC, and Shelby Herbert tells of a federal grant to make dirty diesels into clean hybrids. Plus, AFN speaks up about subsistence preference. Sabrina Garcia, …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The board governing Alaska high school sports voted Monday to ban trans girls from competing on high school sports teams that match their gender identity. Klukwan residents led a ceremony to honor the Chilkat watershed and the life it sustains. And the Presbyterian Church has committed to paying nearly $1 million in …

Voters in Kodiak last week elected Annika Woods to be one of the Kodiak City Council’s newest and youngest members, at just 26 years old. It’s her first term as an elected official.  Woods grew up in Kodiak and is now one of the youngest people to serve as an elected official on the island. She said that’s a big …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly may finalize a revision to its code that regulates the operation of gravel pits, a years-in-the-making vote. Yesterday was Indigenous Peoples Day in Alaska. And the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program gets a preferential hiring deal. Riley Board/KDLLA gravel pit located in Kenai. Ileen Sylvester addresses …

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been raging for just about a year and a half, and travel to the country has been restricted. But one Kodiak resident has made his way there, twice.  Thor Johnson is back on the island after helping troops fighting a real war, the one in Ukraine. He said on his first trip to the …