KFSK Midday Magazine

Petersburg's borough assembly voted down a K-9 unit for the police department at their meeting Monday; geologists visited the site of Wrangell's landslide and presented their findings to the community last month; the Alaska Department of Fish and Game will not open a new commercial fishery for magister squid in Southeast Alaska.

The U.S. Forest Service has new reports that will inform how the Tongass will be managed in the decades to come; Southeast Alaskans will be able to take home yelloweye rockfish again; a look at the way uncertainty around federal funding is affecting nonprofits in Alaska.

Officials in Petersburg are scrambling to figure out which infrastructure projects are affected by Trump's day-one executive orders; the Board of Fisheries will deliberate on nearly 160 proposals over the next two weeks in Ketchikan; Alaska's anti-drug trafficking team seized over 75% more illicit drugs last year compared to the previous year.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries kicked off their regulatory meeting in Ketchikan yesterday; one proposal going before the Board of Fisheries would reduce the hatchery egg production of pink and chum salmon by 25% in Southeast Alaska; the Trump Administration's executive order for the state of Alaska has called into question protections for 28 million acres of wilderness in the state.

A fire damaged a Petersburg home yesterday; a conversation with Petersburg's new district ranger, Carey Case; the National Science Foundation awarded a team of researchers nearly $1 million to study glacial outburst flooding from Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier.

A Board of Fisheries proposal could allow a small commercial red king crab fishery to open when stock levels are lower than what's currently allowed; Juneau residents had a chance to ask questions and offer comments on a proposed fifth cruise ship dock at two meetings last week; the Alaska Legislature is working on a bill that would boost per-student funding by roughly 30%.

Several proposals headed to the Alaska Board of Fisheries next week would change how the state manages king salmons at Blind Slough on Petersburg's Mitkof Island; one of President Donald Trump's executive orders aims to rolls back protections on millions of acres in the Tongass National Forest; the Alaska Board of Education and Early Development released a draft statewide cell phone policy this week.

Information about Petersburg students and school staff may have been compromised after hackers got into a software system last month; seven tribal organizations across the state of Alaska received over $12 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last month; the Anchorage area has its first small-scale casino.

The City and Borough of Juneau is warning of a potential measles exposure at the SEATAC airport that could impact Southeast Alaska residents; thousands of Alaska residents have been waiting months for their retirement contributions to be processed; Petersburg's high school basketball teams hosted their third annual invitational last weekend.

Petersburg's borough assembly will decide tonight whether the borough can issue bonds to fund improvements to Petersburg's school district; police arrested two Sitka residents last week after a drug bust turned into a high speed car chase; President Trump signed an executive order yesterday that aims to undo most of his predecessors work on Alaska energy and environmental issues.