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On this week’s episode of Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin sits down with some cast members of “Game of Tiaras,” the Kodiak Arts Council’s Summer Youth Theatre play. Performances are Friday, July 28th at 6pm, and Saturday, July 29th at 2pm at the Auditorium Drama Pod. Admission is free. Listen here:

In today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Smoke from wildfires burning across Canada is reaching Southcentral and Interior Alaska this week. Thousands of lightning strikes around the eastern Interior sparked new wildfires Monday. And tourists are using Juneau’s city bus after commercial tour bus trips sold out mid-way through the season.

The clinic held the ceremony last Friday, but they actually moved into the new facility in late June. The new space on Mill Bay Road is much bigger than Kodiak Veterinary Clinic’s previous hospital.  Staff had been waiting to move for about a year and a half. Nicole Sassin is the vet clinic’s hospital manager. She said it’s great to …

In today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: More than one hundred Bristol Bay fishing crews protested this year’s sockeye price in the Naknek River entrance on Thursday. An insect infestation responsible for defoliating thousands of acres of the Tongass National Forest is abating.  And young burn survivors from Indiana are spending over a week in Ketchikan. Over one hundred …

In today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A community garden proposal is making its way toward Sitka’s assembly for approval. Almost half of Alaska’s Head Start early learning programs are in danger of losing millions of dollars in federal funding. And Alaska’s predator control programs do not work, according to research by two retired state Fish and Game biologists and …

Lawmakers in Washington D.C. are currently negotiating the details of this year’s farm bill reauthorization, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski says Alaska’s commercial fishermen could see a boost from the bill. The senator introduced legislation this week that would prioritize food security and small-scale food producers in the state – including Alaska’s seafood industry. “Our seafood industry deserves to have some …

Kodiak police have named Clint Moudy as a suspect in the fatal hit-and-run collision during the tsunami evacuation late on July 15. The crash killed a pedestrian, 45-year-old Kodiak resident Vanessa Amox. Friends on Facebook also know her as Vanessa Malutin-McCormick. Moudy’s white, flatbed-style truck had damage consistent with debris collected from the crime scene, according to a press release …

In today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The number of volunteer firefighters in Alaska has nearly halved since 2014. A federal judge has dismissed the state of Alaska’s lawsuit against the federal government over contamination on Alaska Native corporation lands. And Alaska Attorney General Taylor signed a letter  supporting states’ rights to access medical information about abortion and gender-affirming …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports on an overabundance of sockeye in a Sitka lake, Brian Venua of KMXT on a slow start for Kodiak seiners, and his colleague Kirsten Dobroth on whether everyone can play nice in the “sandbox.” Counting fish at Redoubt Lake.

In today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: For the first time on record there will be no fall hunt for Nelchina caribou. An emergency service area in Cooper Landing is off, and a new effort for a regional service area is underway. And Bristol Bay fishermen are outraged at the low price of 50 cents per pound announced recently. …