KFSK Midday Magazine

All four Alaska governor candidates attended Kodiak's fisheries debate; a popular bar in Wrangell suffered severe fire damage yesterday; and Petersburg's tribe welcomed home the repatriated remains of a 6-month-old Tlingit girl.

New elder housing will welcome tenants in Ketchikan; dogs gathered in Sitka for a K-9 search and rescue conference; and a conversation with Petersburg Borough Assembly candidate Don Koenigs.

Central Southeast Alaska's moose hunting season kicks off tomorrow; a Dutch Harbor genetics lab is monitoring salmon bycatch numbers; and a conversation with Petersburg Borough Assembly candidate Scott Newman.

The deadline to submit public comment on a proposed plan to repeal the Roadless Rule has been extended; Puzzlers in Sitka race the clock; and a conversation with Petersburg Borough Assembly candidate Tom Kowalske.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking public comment on a cruise ship dock project in Petersburg; a student in Juneau turns stream data into music; and a conversation with Petersburg Borough Assembly candidate, Donna Marsh.

Wrangell's Borough Assembly adopted a local disaster declaration after the Dungeness crab fishery closed early; Skagway's ferry terminal is on track to reopen tomorrow; and a conversation with Petersburg Borough Assembly candidate Sarah Fine-Walsh.

Petersburg's Borough Assembly tonight will vote on nearly a dozen issues, including grant funding for a haul-out project at Scow Bay; Republican Treg Taylor is back in Alaska's race for governor; and a conversation with incumbent Petersburg Borough Assembly candidate Jeigh Stanton Gregor.

The commercial red king crab fishery will open in Southeast Alaska this year; Petersburg voters will decide if the town should have a sales tax exemption for seniors age 70 and older; and a conversation with a new early elementary special education teacher in Petersburg.

A fungal outbreak is spreading among spruce trees in the Tongass National forest, scientists say it's not harmful; Petersburg's hospital was awarded three major grants; and Southeast Alaska dive fishermen have seen the impacts of the region's sea otter boom.

Juneau city leaders raise questions about glacial outburst flood funding; a lawsuit against the Forest Service challenges a logging project near Ketchikan; and a conversation with Petersburg's EMS Coordinator about a new Emergency Trauma Technician certification class at the local high school.