More than 200 people – including kids, members of local law enforcement and even a few dogs – gathered at the Kodiak Public Library on Saturday morning for the Run, Learn & Play 6k Run and 1 Mile Walk. It was the first morning it wasn’t raining in more than a week. And just as slivers of blue sky opened …
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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Soldotna City Council continues to hear public comment about a drag show held in a park. Senator Murkowski is calling for the federal government to clean up contaminated lands conveyed to Alaska Natives. And Kenai Peninsula Mayor Charlie Pierce is quitting to focus on gubernatorial run.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan is introducing legislation that goes after illegal Chinese fishing operations. Sullivan announced the Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest Act – also known as the FISH Act – on a visit to Kodiak Thursday. Sullivan says Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island, helped author the bill. “This is a very bipartisan bill, and a very needed bill,” …
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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Overescapement of sockeye on the Kasilof River may mean skimpier runs later. Managers decline to reopen subsistence coho fishing on the Yukon River. And looming landslides cause Skagway to close a cruise ship dock, with a resulting loss in business.
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On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reporting on NOAA’s new strategic plan for Alaska mariculture, Katherine Moncure of KDLG with a story on the Alaska Salmon Program, and Anna Rose MacArthur of KYUK on closed coho in the Kuskokwim.
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Kodiak High School. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Listen to this story; The first day of school for Kodiak students is next week. And teachers in the Kodiak Island Borough School District are busily preparing for the upcoming year – including a group of newly arrived teachers from the Philippines. Nori De Asis has wanted to be a teacher …
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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Two harbor seal pups graduate “fish school” at Seward’s SeaLife Center. Tara Sweeney has dropped out of the race for US House. And researchers are studying deep sea life in the Bering Sea.
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On this first episode of KMXT’s Corner Studio, host Jared Griffin talks with Mitchell Davidson and Laura Arboleda of the Kodiak Community Foundation, and Hazel de los Santos with Kodiak Arts Council, to talk about Pick. Click. Give. and the Kodiak Downtown Block Party on September 10. Listen here:
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