KFSK Midday Magazine

Anglers will be able to fish for king salmon at a popular slough near Petersburg this summer; though President Donald Trump voiced support for an unbuilt Alaska LNG project, it still has some major hurdles; and a Petersburg fishing boat caught fire yesterday in Chatham Strait, but all of its crew are safe.

Residents protested in Soldotna about the recent federal actions by the Trump administration; a Petersburg man was sentenced to a decade of incarceration for sexual assault; and a high-priority education funding bill will be debated in the State House next week.

Local leaders in Juneau say they're committed to maintaining a good relationship with their Canadian sister city, despite tariff-relation tensions; a nonprofit in Sitka hopes to put displaced federal Forest Service crew back to work; and the Petersburg Borough is sending a letter to Alaska's congressional delegation about the impact that federal funding cuts could have on local services.

Only two Visitor Center staff are left to monitor the roughly one million visitors coming to the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau this summer; Alaskan border towns are bracing for the impact of tariffs; and the state legislature is reviewing a bill that would fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students.

Alaska Senate leaders are reviving options for raising revenue as the state faces a steep dollar deficit; a state-run trust that owns land around a mining project near Haines decided not to buy federal mining claims in the area; and all felony charges against three Wrangell residents were dropped earlier this month.

The U.S Coast Guard called off the search for a missing fishing boat near Prince of Whales Island; the U.S. House passed a spending blueprint that would reduce Medicaid; and elementary students in Petersburg won't get as much physical education next year due to limited education funding.

A 27 year old man in Petersburg was arrested last week after a string of overnight break-ins; a new report by the Foraker Group paints a bleak picture of the impacts of frozen and cancelled federal funds in Alaska; flu cases are spiking in Alaska, according to data from the state's division of public health.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced a bill aiming to reverse Alaska's ban on finfish farming; a new report says glacier loss in Alaska is outpacing other regions worldwide; and Petersburg's high school basketball teams played their rivals in Wrangell for a second time this season.

Red king crab commercial permit holders in Southeast Alaska will have a better chance of fishing in coming seasons; the union representing fired U.S. Forest Service workers in Wrangell is doing everything it can to reverse the terminations; a larger state deficit than expected is complicating a boost to state funding for public schools.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted against confirming Kash Patel as President Trump's FBI director; a conversation about the Alaska Permanent Fund's risky investing in Alaska-based companies; and at least nine U.S. Forest Service employees in Petersburg lost their jobs, which could impact the local economy.