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Election day Oct. 3, with competitive races for City Council, City Mayor, Kodiak Island Borough School Board, Borough Assembly, and Borough Mayor.  KMXT held forums for the City Mayor, City Council, School Board, and Borough Assembly last week and recordings are available on our website. City of Kodiak Two candidates are running for City Mayor: Pat Branson (incumbent) and Alan …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A statewide program makes home ownership possible through “sweat equity.” The Anchorage Assembly heard testimony Friday from people it subpoenaed to discuss an election challenge filed earlier this year. And a project to re-establish wood bison in Alaska has suffered another setback. A wood bison (ADF&G photo)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A woman in Nome is using social media as a tool to teach the Inupiaq language. Students across the state logged on for the annual Teaching through Tech conference. And American Indians and Alaska Natives are vastly overrepresented in state prison systems. Lemon Creek prisoners.  

A humpback whale was found dead near Kodiak Island on Sept. 25. Federal and tribal workers brought the corpse to a nearby island the next day to try to determine the cause of death. It’s the first whale necropsy in Alaska this year and biologists hope it could help explain why local humpback populations seem to be shrinking.  Matt Van …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas that were hauled up by groundfish trawlers in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Fat Bear Week kicks off this week with its junior bear competition. And a group of U.S. Forest Service personnel traveled to Kake late last month to help …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game kicks off its traveling bycatch roadshow, story from Brian Venua of KMXT (plus audio postcard!), and Kavitha George delves into the Yukon salmon collapse for Alaska Public Media. The Kodiak bycatch meeting was standing-room only.  September 19, 2023. (Brian Venua/KMXT)

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: A Bristol Bay two-way with KDLG’s Christina McDermot and economist Gunnar Knapp. Not to be outdone, CoastAlaska’s Angela Denning sits down with biologist Bo Meredith to break down SE salmon. F/V Sounder gillnetting in Lynn Canal, Southeast Alaska. Photo: Joe McCabe

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Senator Lisa Murkowski is not optimistic Congress can avoid a shutdown. Physician Assistants, or PAs, are not happy about how the state medical board is rewriting their regulations. And Golden Valley Electric Association and Westinghouse are teaming up on a power storage project near Healy. Westinghouse long-duration energy storage system.

Local candidates for City Council, City Mayor, Borough Assembly, and School Board met in a forum sponsored by Kodiak Chamber of Commerce, Kodiak Daily Mirror, and KMXT. The City Council and mayor forum was held Monday, September 25, 2023 and the Borough Assembly and School Board forums were Wednesday, September 27, 2023. Both were broadcast live on KMXT 100.1FM. Hear …

On this week’s episode of Talk of Rock, host Jared Griffin caps off World Dementia Month as he speaks with author and lyricist John Campbell about his book Beyond the Fading Memories: Guiding Words for Dementia Caregivers, and his song based off the book, “Beyond Fading Memories.” Listen here: