Kodiak College is joining a list of educational institutions left scrambling after the White House froze billions in grants on Monday. Campus staff say the future of some programs is uncertain.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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This week we hear about more than half a million dollars in federal grant money slated for Kodiak College is frozen, the Alutiiq Museum's archaeology team has pieced together a historical timeline for Shuyak Island, the City approved its FY26 budget, the borough is on the hook for a quarter million dollars for school bond debt, and another dead whale washed up on Surfer's Beach.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin discusses this weekend's Renaissance Faire with organizers.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KUCB's Theo Greenly reports that Unalaska has finally started to see some crab disaster money, KDLG's Kendra Hannah on a prediction of bigger fish in the Bay this year, from KBBI Simon Lopez reports that Alaskans will be able to harvest dungies in Cook Inlet, and efforts to map the Pacific herring genome are underway, according to Desiree Hagen of KOTZ.
Alaska News
- Anchorage Mayor LaFrance proposes criminalizing homeless camping near schools, trails and playgrounds
- Alaskans divided on bargain Murkowski struck on GOP megabill
- Alaska's iconic Mount Marathon race features talent-packed field
- To stymie veto overrides, Dunleavy asks Republicans to skip beginning of special session
- Anchorage Assembly gives go-ahead for RV Resort in east downtown
- State seizes 39 animals from a wildlife facility outside Haines
- Ahead of high school, some Anchorage teens earn early credits through cosmetology
- New monument recognizes Dena’ina name for Anchorage peak
- Gov. Dunleavy calls for August special legislative session in Juneau
- These Anchorage residents are capturing the secret lives of the city’s wildlife on camera
NPR National News
- Trump says U.S. will resume sending weapons to Ukraine after pausing last week
- 100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates
- RFK Jr.'s vaccine policy sparks a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Sea lions are released after toxic algae bloom in California
- Want to make yourself less appealing to mosquitoes? Our quiz has surprising ideas
- The U.S. has millions of old gas and oil wells. Here's what it takes to plug them up
- The health of U.S. kids has declined significantly since 2007, new study finds
- Migrants deported from U.S. to Salvadoran prison remain under U.S. control
- DHS ends Temporary Protected Status for thousands from Nicaragua and Honduras
- BRICS nations push back as Trump warns of tariffs