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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Australian Christian Turner is among the Iditarod dog mushers to sign up for the 2023 race. Questions remain about how the planned merger of grocery store companies Krogers and Albertsons  will affect shoppers in Alaska.  And relatives mourn a man killed last month in front of his Anchorage home. Christian Turner in …

Kodiak High School’s fire alarm went off twice Friday morning before students started class. Both turned out to be false alarms, but students had to wait outside or in buses for around 30 minutes until the issue was resolved. According to Assistant Principal Matt Bieber, the alarm tripped due to a faulty sensor. After a single reset, students began to …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A Kodiak man was arrested Tuesday on drug charges after officers intercepted a package containing methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl. The Environmental Protection Agency is one step away from action that would protect the Bristol Bay watershed. And Sitka residents fishing for halibut have discovered a “mud volcano”. Sea creatures cluster at the …

“Fissions of Native Identity” is the newest exhibit at the Kodiak History Museum – and the first to be chosen based on ideas from the public. The exhibition doesn’t take up a big space at the museum, but it asks two big questions: who is Native and who decides? A new exhibition at the Kodiak History Museum explores Native identity …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: There were no fatalities within Alaska’s commercial fishing fleets this year, story by KRBD’s Raegan Miller, it’s river eel season on the Kuskokwim River, as KYUK’s Francisco Martinezcuello reports, and KCAW’s Robert Woolsey says Northline Seafoods is planning a big comeback.  

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Federal safety investigators are calling for new, more restrictive regulations on flightseeing tours in the Ketchikan area after a series of crashes. Alaska’s only National Heritage Area is pushing for a change. And GCI’s underwater fiber optic broadband cable in Unalaska has been damaged. Laurelin Kruse/KUCB  

North Star Elementary students and staff were put on alert Wednesday morning after a suspicious wooden box was placed near the building. Cyndy Mika is the Kodiak Island Borough School District Superintendent. Mika says staff notified both Alaska State Troopers as well as the Kodiak Police Department immediately after discovery. Families waiting in line to pick up their children from …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: More than 40 Wrangell residents are helping bring the musical “The Sound of Music” to the stage this week. A young climate activist from Ketchikan was one of two Alaskans named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list this year. The U.S. Senate passed a bill to protect same sex marriage yesterday, with …

Students at North Star Elementary School were evacuated earlier today as a precaution, according to the Kodiak Police Department, due to a “suspicious item left outside the school.” All students are safe, and parents can pick up their kids at the Bayside Fire Department, according to the police.  Parents received calls and emails from the Kodiak Island Borough School District …

Host Jared Griffin is joined in the studio by Marybeth Loewen and Abigail Pruitt to talk about Next Step Dance Kodiak’s production of The Polar Express and Kodiak’s vibrant dance scene. Listen here: