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The Kodiak Island Borough’s Solid Waste Advisory Board recently announced the winners of its youth art competition. Some of the winners’ art is on display at Kodiak High School. The Solid Waste Advisory Board has named Rosalee Stokes the first prize winner of an art competition they held in February. The North Star Elementary fifth grader’s matboard drawing features wildlife …

Today on the midday report with host Brian Venua: Koniag Inc has revamped their shareholder business directory, the state’s ferries have 150 openings but haven’t processed their 200 applications, Fairbanks is changing how they regulate animal control and dogs, and we hear about Mary Peltola’s views on the firearms. Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola in the halls of the Capitol in …

Koniag, Incorporated recently launched an updated version of their shareholder business directory. The Native Corporation’s goal is to make it easy to find and support Native-owned businesses. Stacey Simmons is the senior director of shareholder services for Koniag, inc. She says the new directory is designed to help their shareholders stand out in their respective niches.  The Koniag, Inc. office …

Today on the midday report with host Brian Venua: Alaska’s Board of Game made some new decisions regarding trapping, we hear from the Bristol Bay Sustainability Summit, and new reports suggest the Alaska Legislature is short $680 million from its initial budget plan. The Board of Game meets at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Riley …

Host Pam Foreman talks with Marion Owen about gardening in Kodiak. Marion shares some tips on how to maintain healthy soil and plants in Kodiak’s climate – whether you garden in a hoop house or a container – and what you can be doing now to get things going in the garden.

Kodiak residents experienced a power outage Monday night that left thousands in the dark for about two hours. According to a press release from the Kodiak Electric Association, a critical piece of substation equipment called a circuit switcher failed, shutting down the whole system.  The power went out at Safeway and left customers to either purchase their groceries with cash …

Today on the midday report with host Kirsten Dobroth: the Alaska Marine Highway System has a new director, new data shows an rise in homicides in the state over the last decade, and a collective approach to healing after a fatal polar bear attack in the village of Wales.  

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Comfish Alaska is featured, with reports from KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth on presentations from Alaska’s Congressional Delegation.  

The salmon shark dissection was a fan favorite event at Kodiak’s commercial fishing trade show, ComFish. It started before that at Kodiak’s Whale Fest when it was led by longtime Kodiak resident Gil Bane. This year, the dissection returned after a pandemic-induced hiatus. No sharks were available for last weekend’s event, so organizers used an inky alternative instead. The crowd …

This week on the Midday Report with host Terry Haines: There will be no sac roe herring fishery in Togiak this year. As Southeast Alaska otter populations have grown, so have calls to loosen the strict federal rules protecting them. And after losing half their population, humpback whales in Glacier Bay are rebounding. Whales in Glacier Bay (Wikimedia Commons)