Alaska’s newest kelp hatchery recently finished its first growing season in a mobile shipping container in Kodiak. The hatchery aims to help kelp farmers on Kodiak Island boost how much they can grow.
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Weekly Wrap
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we hear about an annual joint-military exercise in the Arctic with some training taking place in Kodiak this week, Alaska Aerospace Corporation receives federal funding to update its facilities at the Kodiak Island spaceport, KUCB reports on the Board of Fisheries recent decision on Area M salmon fishing, Alaska Public Media reports on the state House's version of the budget bill, and Port Lions is replacing its water system.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, Deb Rohrer and Derek Clarkston join us at KMXT for the latest installment of Jock of the Rock, where we discuss Kodiak high school and club sports.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alix Soliman reports on the perils and promise of mariculture in SE, Colette Czarnecki on a Wrangell fisherman roundtable, and severe restrictions on Cook Inlet sport king fishing, according to KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara.
Alaska News
- State lawmakers introduce bills to fight water pollution from cruise ships
- Sen. Sullivan says he supports attack on Iran
- Alaska House passes bill limiting AI sexual imagery and child social media use
- Mat-Su looks to close schools amid budget shortfall with more proposed cuts coming
- Psychedelic medicine task force recommends ways to make future care in Alaska accessible
- About half of the fallen 'Beast' is removed from the Arctic tundra
- Anchorage wasn't built for pedestrians. Experts say that's killing people
- In already chilly Fairbanks, this winter is one for the record books
- Alaska Permanent Fund’s performance compares favorably to peers, evaluators tell lawmakers
- For a vaccine success story, Murkowski points surgeon general nominee to Alaska's HepB history
NPR National News
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- Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., talks about the war with Iran and upcoming war powers vote
- The candy heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
- Scientists make a pocket-sized AI brain with help from monkey neurons
- The U.S. shuts some Gulf embassies and warns of a prolonged war with Iran
- College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree