On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska has the highest proportion of independent voters in the country. Alaska’s Division of Forestry released its plan for selling timber in Southeast Alaska for the next five years. The Alaska House of Representatives passed its $6 billion operating budget yesterday. Voters cast their ballots in the 2022 primary election in Anchorage …
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Turnagain Marine unveils two possible concepts for St. Herman Harbor replacement project in Kodiak
Turnagain Marine Construction, an Anchorage based company, is accepting public input on the replacement design for St. Herman Harbor. Thursday, April 11, the company revealed two potential concepts for the overhaul of Kodiak’s largest boat harbor during the ComFish trade show, which started in 1980 as a marine trades fair held in a National Guard wall tent. The City of …
Read More »Midday Report – April 11, 2024
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A partisan brawl is about to erupt in Congress over the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Alaska’s Senators are at odds. The University of Alaska Fairbanks has received a 20-million-dollar National Science Foundation grant to research climate change effects on marine species in the Gulf of Alaska and the …
Read More »Alaska Fisheries Report 11 April 2024
This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: North Peninsula dungeness season is about to open, as reported by Andy Lusk and Sofia Stuart-Rasi of KUCB, KFSK’s Shelby Herbert reports that Trident has finalized sale of its Petersburg plant,Silver Bay is stepping into Peter Pan’s shoes, according to Theo Greenly of KUCB, Jack Darrell tells of the reopening …
Read More »Proposed contract for Kodiak’s interim city manager draws public ire due to ‘problematic’ salary
Kodiak’s city manager will resign from his full time position at the end of this month, after seven plus years on the job. City Manager Mike Tvenge said he is willing to sign a contract as the interim manager starting in May. A sticking point to that contract being finalized though, is figuring out how much Tvenge will be paid. …
Read More »Midday Report – April 10, 2024
On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Bianca Cross has been named the City of Anchorage’s next police chief, which will make her the first woman to lead the state’s largest police force. A fire broke out at one of Ketchikan’s fire stations last night [Weds 4/9], with multiple emergency vehicles presumed destroyed and heavy structural damage to the …
Read More »Toll credits from Alaska ferries to fund Tustumena Replacement Vessel and other marine highway projects
For the first time, money from ticket sales and revenue coming in from passengers using the Alaska Marine Highway System, known as toll credits, will fund ferry and marine highway projects across the state. That’s in part due to recent eligibility changes within a Federal Highway Administration program. Last week on April 4, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public …
Read More »Talk of the Rock: Soul Exhaustion, Suicide Prevention, and Kodiak Reentry
On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Jared Griffin speaks with Jill Wallace and Rhea Hayes, two organizers of this week’s series of workshops on soul exhaustion, suicide prevention, and launching the new Kodiak Reentry program. You can find details for the workshops on their Facebook page: Kodiak Reentry. Listen to their talk here:
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