KFSK Midday Magazine

Juneau's Assembly voted to divest from an expensive gondola project and pay back millions of dollars; volunteers prepare a restored lighthouse for its grand reopening; and some advice for National Safe Boating Week from the U.S. Coast Guard about preventing false alerts.

Alaska's legislature is heading toward a special session focused on a natural gas pipeline; Petersburg's millage rates are increasing; and Norway's ambassador to the United States talked 17th of May traditions during the Little Norway Festival.

A warm summer could make Alaska marine heatwaves worse this year; some Alaskans are concerned about plans to reopen a Canadian gold mine; and a classical music festival is coming to Petersburg this week.

Sitka's childcare system can only serve about half of the children who need it, according to a recent assessment; a 44-acre solar power farm is starting up in Wrangell; and a look at the agenda for Petersburg's Borough Assembly meeting tonight.

A Natural Geographic journalist who is walking around the world plans to sea kayak down the Inside Passage; Skagway opened a space dedicated to sharing its Indigenous culture; and Petersburg locals celebrate a wooden seiner's 80th birthday.

The state House unanimously voted to make the giant green cabbage Alaska's official state vegetable; a Canadian mining company plans to drive a large boat up the Taku River, concerning come Juneau locals; and sport fishing on Blind Slough will open to all anglers this summer.

A crowd gathered in Haines for the reopening of a store that burned down in 2024; Juneau middle schoolers carve and design canoe paddles in class; and Petersburg's first MRI machine now has state approval to start operating.

Ketchikan's school district uncovered an additional deficit of over $4.5 million; a giant landslide tsunami in Tracy Arm last summer was the second-largest on record; and Petersburg's Little Norway Festival happens this week.

Alaska's legislature is asking the federal government for flexibility around a massive healthcare program; a plan to make Juneau's temporary flood wall higher has been scaled back; and a look at Petersburg's track and field meet in Ketchikan.

The Alaska Senate passed its take on the state budget yesterday; interest in the aquaculture industry is growing in Alaska; and a new Petersburg craft store opens its doors.