On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Senator Sullivan says Alaska’s youth mental health crisis is severe and profound. Military weapons experts will visit Unalaska to examine a possible unexploded device. And Anchorage pushes homeless campers from one unofficial site to the next. Grenades, chemical weapons and other munitions have been turning up on Unalaska’s hiking trails and beaches …
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Alaska Fisheries Report 29 June 2023
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Sabine Poux reports on the Kasilof dipnet opening for KDLL, Dungeness fishing has been hot in Unalaska, story by KUCB’s Sofia Stuart-Rasi, and dungeness season has opened in Southeast to muted enthusiasm, as reported by Hannah Flor of KFSK. Dungeness crab that were caught in the Bering Sea by a local …
Read More »NOAA’s biennial bottom trawl survey is underway in the Gulf of Alaska
A major study of one of the state’s largest marine environments is underway. Data from this year’s Gulf of Alaska bottom trawl survey will provide information about Pacific cod recovery following marine heatwaves. (Photo courtesy NOAA Fisheries) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducts bottom trawl surveys to compile fisheries and environmental data across the country, and this summer, the …
Read More »KIBSD approves new budget after education funding cuts
Kodiak’s school board approved a new budget on Monday, after taking a hit of about $1.8 million after Gov. Mike Dunleavy slashed the one-time funding approved by the state legislature in half. No staff positions are being cut this year and the district is instead reducing their budget for supplies by about $600,000. Another $500,000 will come out of the …
Read More »Midday Report June 28, 2023
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Billions of dollars in federal funding coming into the state are hoped to help bridge the rural digital divide. The state of Cook Inlet belugas looks a bit better. And The City of Valdez is asking the Alaska Supreme Court to make Hilcorp show it could handle an oil spill. A gray …
Read More »Talk of the Rock: Kodiak trails, search and rescue
On this week’s episode of Talk of Rock, host Jared Griffin speaks with Steve Wielebski of Kodiak Island Search and Rescue (KISAR) about being safe and prepared for Kodiak’s outdoors this summer. Listen here:
Read More »Midday Report June 27, 2023
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Bethel joined in with Pride celebrations that took place across the world this weekend. A former Homer judge charged with perjury made her first court appearance. And bikes for Ukrainian refugees in Delta Junction. Photo: MaryCait Dolan
Read More »Midday Report June 26, 2023
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines:The Governor has signed a bill transferring management of the Power Cost Equalization Endowment to the Permanent Fund team. Dillingham has a town hall on opioid overdose prevention and mental health resources. And a program for teen students immerses them in STEM subjects. Unalakleet, one of the communities in Alaska eligible for power …
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