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Historically low numbers of chinook, or king salmon have been returning to their natal streams in the Gulf of Alaska. As a result, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has taken steps to restrict both sport and commercial fishing opportunities.
The Midday Report - Statewide News and Local Events Update Every Weekday
Weekly Wrap
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KMXTThis week we hear about the vacant position for the director of engineering and facilities at the Kodiak Island Borough, the City of Kodiak approved an agreement with a new city manager, the federal government has frozen more than a million in grants that would fund KIBSD programs, NOAA has multiple research vessels conducting surveys this month, ADF&G raises catch limits for sockeye in Kodiak area rivers and some of the Kodiak Alutiiq Dancers participate in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C.
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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Kanesia McGlashan-Price/KUCBThis week on The Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines:KDLG's Margaret Sutherland and Kendra Hanna tag team on a tandem of stories about Bristol Bay rescues, and Kanesia McGlashan-Price of KUCB reports that the new weir in Unalaska is working fine this year.
Alaska News
- Trump's EPA could revive controversial Pebble Mine in southwest Alaska
- Bill requiring car rental apps to collect Alaska taxes avoids second veto
- Anchorage ICE detainee recently transferred to Tacoma hospitalized with tuberculosis
- Alaska lawmakers plan rare use of subpoenas to get oil tax data
- 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
NPR National News
- HBO's new Billy Joel documentary is revelatory — even if it pulls some punches
- A wildfire destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge. It burned down once before
- Why the Federal Reserve's building renovations are attracting the White House's ire
- Supreme Court says Trump's efforts to close the Education Department can continue
- Trump tells supporters not to 'waste time' on Epstein files. They're not happy
- 24 states sue Trump admin to unfreeze more than $6 billion in education grants
- Where to start? This week's new releases are an all-you-can-read buffet
- More immigration judges are being fired amid Trump's efforts to speed up deportations
- South Africa's president creates commission to look at police corruption allegations
- Wrongly convicted, he became 'The Jailhouse Lawyer' — and helped free himself