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The Kodiak City Council plans to hire a longtime city management consultant in Anchorage as its interim manager at the next regular meeting.
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Weekly Wrap
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KMXTThis week, with host Davis Hovey, we hear about the most recent shellfish toxin results in Kodiak, the interim chancellor of the University of Alaska visits the local college, Nick Mangini was appointed to the city council, the borough lands committee pushes more land to the borough assembly for sale and the North Star Elementary school building will be used at least in part for daycare.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin speaks with the production team of Kodiak Arts Council's JOY, a community holiday music production. Performances are Dec. 6 at 7pm and Dec. 7 at 2pm.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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(Angela Denning/Coast Alaska)This week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KUCB's Theo Greenly reports that crabbers are finally starting to get relief money, Southeast Alaska's first red king crab fishery in eight years is underway, according to KFSK's Olivia Rose, and Cook Inlet had a good sockeye season, story by KDLL's Ashlyn O'Hara.
Alaska News
- Johnson will lead Alaska House minority after a shakeup that has conservatives crying foul
- Ten years after Alaska-B.C. mining agreement, environmental group says state is falling short
- Juneau’s Vera Starbard earns Emmy nomination for ‘Molly of Denali’ Thanksgiving episode
- Alaska experts urge safe sleep practices to combat rise in infant deaths
- Murkowski defends Democrats Trump accuses of 'seditious behavior'
- Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier has officially receded from Mendenhall Lake
- For many Alaskans seeking addiction treatment, help starts with someone who has been there
- State official sues Alaska Landmine over suggestion she stole state money
- Investigation underway over shots fired at ore-hauling trucks near Fairbanks
- Alaska state agencies are increasingly struggling to comply with the law, auditor warns
NPR National News
- 50 years after the birth of special education, some fear for its future under Trump
- Democrats seek limits on who can serve as immigration judges amid mass layoffs
- The use and misuse of the word 'ideology'
- The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff
- Belarus weather balloons force repeated closures of Lithuania's main airport
- Trump administration halts immigration applications for migrants from 19 nations
- Deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to resume Dec. 30
- San Francisco sues nation's top food manufacturers over ultraprocessed foods
- Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in the U.S., urges them to go back to their homeland and fix it
- White House defends strikes on boat survivors, but it's unclear where the buck stops