Each of the three candidates have at least a decade of experience in higher education and will all be visiting Kodiak from the Lower 48 this week.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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On 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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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
- State advances over four hundred projects in bid for Rural Health Transformation Program funding
- Anderson under evacuation orders as lightning sparks Interior Alaska wildfires
- An endangered, pregnant fin whale arrived in Seward dead on a cruise ship bow
- Alaska lawmakers seek gas pipeline tax compromise as another special session begins
- It ‘doesn’t work,’ Gov. Dunleavy says of Senate Alaska LNG bill
- Gasline bill remains stalled in Senate as Dunleavy vetoes 9 bills, threatens another special session
- 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
NPR National News
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- Lebanese struggle to get by in an ancient city under Israeli evacuation order
- How Trump's 'Complete and Total Endorsement' has reshaped the Republican Party
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