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A legal back and forth between the Kodiak Island Borough and the Kodiak Area Native Association over property taxes is headed to the Alaska Supreme Court.  KANA has been paying property taxes despite claiming that the organization should be under a Bureau of Indian Affairs exemption for serving Native people.  The Native association sued the Kodiak Island Borough three years …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Brian Venua’s chilly ammonia story from KMXT, chums may get capped, as related by Evan Erickson of KYUK, and Cook Inlet EEZ comments wanted, according to KDLL’s Riley Board. Students in a week-long in-person ammonia class, October 13, 2023. (Brian Venua/KMXT)

On Today’s Midday Report with Host Mike Wall: the school in Karluk will close just one month after opening, a Bristol Bay woman is missing, the Kenai Peninsula School District will not open a charter school, and the state government is pursing a logging project despite Whales Pass them to pursue carbon credits.   The Church of St. Nicholas, a …

The decision to close the Karluk school was unanimous at an emergency school board meeting on Oct. 24.  “It’s a sad day when you have to close a school,” said Cyndy Mika, the Kodiak Island Borough School District superintendent. “And it’s not anything that I ever wanted to do in my tenure – it’s nothing that I want to ever …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin talks with the KHS Shakesbears about their recent performance of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Joining Jared are Wren Pikus, Jillian Dorner, and Shakesbear alum Bradly Cobban. Listen here:

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Vic Fischer, the last living signer of Alaska’s constitution, died yesterday at his Anchorage home. Subsistence concerns were a major topic of discussion at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention on Friday.  And two teenagers will pay fines, and forfeit their guns and hunting licenses, for illegally shooting two brown bears in …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The annual Alaska Federation of Natives Convention has kicked off in Anchorage. Hundreds of people in Anchorage are moving from encampments into hotel rooms as the winter shelter season begins. And the Southeast island community of Whale Pass is asking the state to pursue carbon credits instead of a nearby timber sale. …

Chadwick Watters works for Leader Creek Fisheries in Naknek – near Bristol Bay – and is at the end of an in-person ammonia refrigeration training.  “This class was advertised to us through our facility manager and he kind of told us that this would be a good opportunity to learn more, get more hands on experience and really go into …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Western Arctic Caribou Herd continues to decline and managers are proposing dramatically reducing harvest limits. The slow uphill speed of Mahn Choh Mine ore haul trucks is a safety concern. And Alaska has one of the highest suicide rates in the country. A small group of caribou in Denali National Park …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Rhonda McBride reports that AFN is joining the fed in suing the state, Janie Diep of KBBI on kids and salmon eggs, and from KDLG Christina McDermott offers a profile of Bristol Bay fisherman Dan Barr. Twenty-seven classes from 15 schools in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District attended the …