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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The board that governs school sports in Alaska has decided against  preventing transgender athletes from participating in girls sports, for now. A federal judge in Washington state has affirmed a controversial ruling that could shut down trolling for king salmon in Southeast Alaska. And scientists are looking into the past of Mount …

Kodiak is expecting its busiest cruise ship season this summer since 2019, when 30 cruises visited the island. The first ship of the year, Holland America’s 950-foot Westerdam, docked at Pier 2 early Tuesday morning after sailing from Japan.  David and Lili Fraiberg were among the first group of tourists off the Westerdam. Lili (left) and David (right) Fraiberg seen …

On this week’s episode of Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin speaks with representatives of the Kodiak History Museum. KHM Executive Director Sarah Harrington talks about plans for the museum building (Alaska’s oldest), plus museum curator Lynn Walker and board member and exhibit committee member Candace Branson talk about the Native Identities exhibit and other museum programming. Listen here:

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The National Tribal Health Conference got underway this morning in Anchorage. The city of Bethel says the state isn’t helping rural communities access funds meant to help build modern water and sewer systems. And a trial is set to start today in Ketchikan to determine if the posting of a traditional Southeast …

The Kodiak Chamber of Commerce and the local visitor’s bureau, Discover Kodiak, both recently announced new executive directors. The new directors are taking the reins just in time for the busy summer season.  The two bureaus are housed in the same building, and their missions are similar. Each is aimed at making Kodiak a better place. Discover Kodiak focuses mostly …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A threat of gun violence at John Apangalook School in Gambell resulted in a lock-out protocol for students. The Fed. Subsistence Board is proposing an emergency order drastically reducing the current harvest of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd. Representatives from a company seeking to establish a graphite mine in the Kigluaik Mountains …

The search is ongoing for a new chief executive officer for Alaska Aerospace Corporation, which oversees the Kodiak Pacific Spaceport Complex on Narrow Cape. That’s after the state-owned company’s last CEO, Milton Keeter, abruptly left the position back in March.  Kodiak’s Pacific Spaceport Complex on Narrow Cape, November 2022 (Kirsten Dobroth/KMXT) Maj. Gen. Torrence Saxe is the commissioner of Alaska’s …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: This week dual Area M stories, from KUAC’s Dan Bross and KUCB’s Theo Greenly, and KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth reports on a field trip by Alaska mariculture folk to South Korea, where kelp is king. Katie Basile/KYUK