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The contract is going to Tutor Perini Corp., who has already built Coast Guard housing in Kodiak.
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Weekly Wrap
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KMXTOn this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, the Alaska Beacon reports on changes to advance reservations for public cabins, the Kodiak commercial salmon seiner Emily Rose gets some help from Good Samaritan vessels, Coast Guard Base Kodiak hosted a 9/11 25th anniversary ceremony, a recap of the gubernatorial fisheries debate in Kodiak, state Sen. Gary Stevens is retiring from the Legislature, and KIBSD's Board of Education is considering closing East Elementary school.
Talk of the Rock
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On this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, KMXT hosts a live call-in show featuring John Oberst, the president and CEO of Alaska Aerospace Corporation, and Board Chair Lindsay Knight.If you didn't get an opportunity to call-in or if you still have questions about the spaceport at Narrow Cape, email your questions to news@kmxt.org.
Alaska Fisheries Report
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Courtesy of Michael LivingstonOn this week's Alaska Fisheries Report with host Terry Haines:A federal bill aimed at bycatch reduction has passed in a key Commerce committee, story by Alaska Public Media's Liz Ruskin, an effort to help reduce bycatch in the lab is underway, according to KUCB's Katie Reuther, and Unalaska wants the state to help ferry seafood processor workers into town, as reported by KUCB's Sofia Stuart-Rasi.
Alaska News
- New York Times reports Peltola has repeatedly blown up at aides and campaign staff
- Poll shows Democrat with lead in Alaska governor’s race, but large swaths remain undecided
- Alaska hunting guide and teen employee named as victims in fatal plane crash east of Nabesna
- 8 candidates, 3 debates: Tune into Debate for the State this October
- It’s Fat Bear Week. Meet this year’s heavyset hopefuls
- Plane crash near Nabesna kills 2
- Whittier’s new $80M dock considered total loss after fire
- Elder Alaskans increasingly vulnerable to dying by suicide, according to data
- Sullivan’s trawl bycatch bill clears a U.S. Senate committee
- Republican Treg Taylor leans on experience as attorney general in gubernatorial pitch
NPR National News
- RFK Jr.'s ethics filing reveals book deals worth millions of dollars
- Mortgage rates have just surpassed 7% for the first time in well over a year
- The economic squeeze is pushing up poverty rates for older adults
- 'Empire' asks: When a child dies, who pays the price?
- Trump and Xi strike cordial tone at summit amid underlying tensions
- Needy couples got cash and a spending plan. Results were good -- and bad
- eBay bans airbag sales as concerns about faulty or counterfeit parts rise
- The Education Dept. hasn't been dismantled. It's become more inefficient, staff say
- These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
- Warren demands Trump officials explain removing a ban on interference in census data