The National Weather Service has updated the emergency phone alert messaging that Alaskans receive when a tsunami is expected.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, we hear about the upcoming KEA elections, upcoming renovations to the Fort Abercrombie ranger station, a new kelp farmers co-op in Kodiak, the fate of hatchery proposals at the Board of Fisheries meeting on March 21, a new major election reform bill, and price changes to fuel on Kodiak.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's Talk of the Rock with host Davis Hovey, we discuss the upcoming "Choose Respect March" happening in Kodiak on April 15. Ellamy Tiller from the Kodiak Women's Resource and Crisis Center joins us to talk about sexual assault awareness and the importance of respect before the start of sexual assault awareness month in April.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Alaska Board of Fisheries takes no action on a set of trawl proposals, plus KFSK's Olivia Rose reports on the Dungeness numbers for Southeast Alaska.
Alaska News
- Murkowski asks Alaska Legislature to up its game
- For months, Carnival Corp. has withheld water pollution data from Alaska regulators
- Borough mayors urge changes to Dunleavy’s Alaska LNG tax break bill
- GOP group complains Peltola spent campaign money while mum about running for office
- Independent attorney Gregg Brelsford is 18th candidate in Alaska governor’s race
- Alaska governor's aide arrested and charged with drunk driving in Juneau
- Gasline developers say Dunleavy bill would cut costs key to competing in global market
- U.S. House Democrat derides Trump admin's investment in Alaska mine project
- Avalanche death near Haines sparks warnings about unstable snowpack
- Long-sought compromise election reform bill heads to Gov. Dunleavy's desk
NPR National News
- Greetings from London, where a big COVID memorial holds vigil over the halls of power
- Trump will address the nation after saying the U.S. may leave the Iran war within weeks
- 4 takeaways from the U.S. men's national soccer team's World Cup tune-up games
- From scrappy startup to tech giant, Apple celebrates its 50th year
- Homesick in a foreign country, a teenager meets a lifelong friend
- NASA's Artemis II astronauts launch to the moon today. Watch it here
- Supreme Court considers a historic case about who is — and isn't — born a citizen
- Suspension lifted for helicopter pilots who hovered near Kid Rock's home
- Trump attends Supreme Court arguments over his executive order, a presidential first
- Food assistance slashed for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees trapped in Bangladesh camps