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The late bloom this year gives Kodiak Soil and Water Conservation District a narrow window to treat invasive plants, like orange hawkweed.
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Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we hear about Invasive Species Awareness Week in Kodiak, Coast Guard Base Kodiak is getting a new child development center, funding cuts and high fuel costs hamper salmon weirs and surveys, an interview with one of 15 U.S. House of Rep. candidates Matt Schultz, and the Sun'aq Tribe is moving its preschool to the old North Star building.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, we sit down with Ben Daly, the supervisor for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Division of Commercial Fisheries Westward region, to talk about his first summer season in his new role at the Kodiak office.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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(MaryCait Dolan/KYUK)This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Avery Ellfeldt of KHNS reports on mixed feelings about reopening the Chilkat sport king salmon fishery, KYUK's Samantha Watson on the Kuskokwim's Return of the Salmon event, and Katherine Irving adds a story from the studios of KMXT on the cost of gathering survey data.
Alaska News
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- Crisis response teams free up Anchorage police and emergency services, officials say
- State’s refusal to put Petersburg Sullivan on ballot ‘likely not legally justified,’ attorney says
- How an increasingly common allergy is taking salmon off the table for some Alaskans
- Dunleavy faces Thursday deadline to sign or veto 24 bills as gas pipeline bill looms
- Senators weigh risk of gas pipeline project as special session deadline approaches
- Brown bear attacks biker on Dome Trail in Anchorage
- Planned Parenthood of Alaska sues state for requiring in-person visits for medication abortion
NPR National News
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- Alan Greenspan, the legendary former Federal Reserve chair, dies
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- An AI proxy war could reshape Congress — before Congress reshapes AI
- Despite state bans, abortions have almost doubled. The reason? Pills via telehealth
- Voters weigh what kind of Democrat they want for Utah's new, blue congressional seat
- A blood test that screens for multiple types of cancer? It may be available soon
- Australian police uncover 3 tons of cocaine
- China hits back at U.S. sanctions restricting its exports to American defense firms