On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: After a fire closed a fuel dock in the Whittier Harbor this week, city officials say it’s operational again. And arctic Alaska is on the lookout for invasive species. Boat traffic continues as normal while fire crews extinguish a fire at the Whittier Fuel Dock on July 4, 2023. (Valerie Kern/ Alaska …
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Troopers identify 2 passengers who died in plane crash near Old Harbor
Longtime Kodiak resident Rod Murdock, who was 73, and 91-year-old Byron Chitwood died in the crash, according to Alaska State Troopers. The Piper Cherokee went down just north of the village of Old Harbor on Sunday, July 2 – about 6 minutes into the flight. The names and any identifying information of those on board had not been confirmed publicly …
Read More »Thousands of applicants respond to the village of Karluk’s ad for cost-free living
Fishing, camping, kayaking, and a year of all expenses paid living; that’s off a poster from the Karluk Tribal Council that went viral last week. They’re looking to pay two families with four children each to move to the village in an effort to get state funding and re-establish a school. Within a week, between four and five thousand people …
Read More »Midday Report July 5, 2023
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Petersburg’s Catholic Church caught fire yesterday afternoon in a blaze that continued for nearly 10 hours. Two Anchorage Assembly members are taking aim at with a proposal to dramatically simplify the city’s residential zoning rules. And Alaska wildfire managers have seen the least-ever acreage burned so far this summer. The roof and …
Read More »As salmon season gets underway, behind the scenes with the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report
Many Kodiak fishers spend the summer salmon season around the archipelago. But many others also head to Bristol Bay to harvest sockeye. KMXT Reporter Brian Venua is from Dillingham and previously reported for KDLG’s Bristol Bay Fisheries Report. He was in town visiting family last week, and stopped by the station to talk to Bristol Bay Fisheries Report Director Corinne …
Read More »Midday Report July 6, 2023
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A fire broke out at a fuel dock in Whittier on Tuesday, injuring two people and sinking a boat. A white raven has been spotted around Kenai for the last month. And Kotzebue celebrates the Fourth of July, complete with an eating contest. One of Gregory Messimer’s photographs of a leucistic raven …
Read More »Alaska Fisheries Report 6 July 2023
On this week’s Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Regulators are considering rewriting the implementing guidelines for the National Standards of the Magnuson Stevens Act. We find out which ones, and why.
Read More »NOAA testing new marine drone to survey Gulf of Alaska fish populations
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is testing out a new, marine drone called DriX this summer to help survey fish populations in the waters off Alaska’s coast. The new technology could transform the work it does, from stock assessments for fisheries to marine mapping. The DriX is essentially an unmanned, robotic boat, and looks kind of like the top …
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