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On today’s midday report with host Kirsten Dobroth: Sen. Lisa Murkowski addresses legislators in Juneau, Trident reopens its processing plant in downtown Wrangell, and a mushroom farmer in Southeast aims to put more local fungi on people’s plates.  

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck about 22 miles south of the village of Old Harbor Monday night, about 70 miles southwest of the city of Kodiak. No tsunami was expected, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and National Weather Service, and no warning was issued.  A screen capture depicting the earthquake’s estimated location via the Alaska Earthquake Center …

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Alaska fishery injuries are most often associated with a winch, story from the Alaska Beacon’s Yereth Rosen, Shelby Herbert reports on watershed repair for KFSK, and the Russian River watershed is protected for twenty more years, as reported by KDLL’s Riley Board. Anglers fish the Russian River

On today’s Midday Report with host Mike Wall: The Iron Dog snowmachine race got underway this morning in Big Lake. The Anchorage School District says it intends to completely end its practice of locking away students with behavioral issues. And  the Mat-Su school bus strike seems no closer to resolution. Iron Dog mushers.  

Talk of the Rock host Jared Griffin sits down with members of the crew of the USCG Cutter Alex Haley to talk about their patrol, the seven-month dry dock repairs, and winning the 2022 MWR Award. Featured guests are Cmdr Ken Sauerbrunn, Executive Officer; Ensign Will Erekson, morale officer; and Petty Officer Tana Alcantara, electronics technician.

A Kodiak-based seafood processing vessel has been fined $208,983 by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It’s the latest in a decade of health and safety violations aboard the vessel. East West Seafoods was fined $50,000 in 2017 after dumping raw sewage near the harbor in Kodiak, as seen here Jan. 2023. (Brian Venua/KMXT) According to the U.S. Department …

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Sitka Assembly will give $25,000 to support the Alaska Trollers Association’s legal defense fund. A Haines High School graduate spent four hours hiding from an active shooter on the Michigan State campus. And a new facility in Anchorage is designed to address the immediate needs of the homeless, and connect them …

Kodiak could soon have its first cannabis cafe. The details are still cloudy, but if approved, it would be one of only three licensed onsite cannabis consumption venues within the state of Alaska.  The new cafe would be in Wildflower’s parking lot on Near Island, and only the third sanctioned venue in the state for onsite consumption of marijuana (Kirsten …