A new television series about Alaska premiered on July 11. It's focused on big brown bears in Katmai National Park and Preserve with narration from a well-known New Zealand comedian and actor.
Midday Report
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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The U.S. Coast Guard encountered four Chinese military ships in the Bering Sea last weekend. Two world records were set during the first two days of this year’s World Eskimo Indian Olympics happening this week in Fairbanks. And a man shot and critically injured by Anchorage police on Monday morning had fired a shotgun at officers.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Davis Hovey chats with Northern Journal's Nat Herz and UAF College of Fisheries professor Courtney Carothers about their special project on Kodiak Island.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Davis Hovey adds to an Alaska Beacon story about see-saw funding for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Association, sablefish have been shown to be a single genetic population, as told by KCAW's Meredith Redick, and State Troopers from around the state are patrolling Bristol Bay, story by KDLG's Meg Duff, who also reports the death of a fisherman there.
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