KFSK Midday Magazine

SEAPA is set to receive $5 million in federal funds to increase its energy generation capacity; Alaska's Republicans are hopeful that Tuesday's election results will create more opportunity for oil drilling and other development on Alaska's federal lands; cleanup work began this fall on a former WWII defense site near Sitka.

Nearly two thirds of Petersburg's general election voters yesterday favored Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, and just over half voted for Nick Begich III over Mary Peltola; conversations with Petersburg voters about their priorities and concerns; last week a Petersburg jury found a resident guilty of sexually assaulting a woman five years ago.

Searchers from Sitka on Wednesday recovered the body of a hunter who died from a brown bear attack; Petersburg's Volunteer Fire Department responded to a chimney fire on South Nordic Drive Tuesday afternoon; the Canadian government is moving forward with a mine very close to the headwaters of the Stikine River

Petersburg residents will get a chance to weigh in this Monday on proposed changes to the way the borough sells its tidelands; it's Halloween, which means it's time for Kenai's Rocky Horror Picture Show; a commentary from Petersburg resident Sharon Hunter discussing her reasons for voting "no" on Alaska's Proposition 2.

The Alaska Marine Highway's 20 year plan is in the works; last weekend the U.S. government apologized for the bombardment of Angoon over a century ago; a commentary from Petersburg resident Brian Smith in favor of Alaska's ranked choice voting.

Petersburg's borough-managed assisted living facility might be getting more expensive;

the forecast for the Bering Sea's biggest crab fishery is looking good;

and a bill that passed this summer will streamline the leasing process for Alaska mariculturists.

Petersburg's tribe has a new administrator: Jalyn Pomrenke;

farmers in Ketchikan qualify for new tax exemptions;

and the Alaska Court of Appeals won't give relief to a Sitka man convicted of multiple murders.

A Sitka resident shot and killed a brown bear sow and one of her cubs early yesterday morning; Ketchikan has had a sharp increase in ambulance call-outs in recent years - the city is combating the problem with a new preventable care program; a new walking tour in Petersburg takes participants on a naturalist's journey of Mitkof Island's landscapes.

Petersburg's hospital employees preparing for next summer's move to the new Wellness, Education, and Resource Center, also called the WERC building; the month-long moose hunt in Central Southeast Alaska close on October 15 with a large harvest of bulls; the future of King Cove is uncertain after the closure of the state-back Peter Pan Seafoods plant earlier this month.

New research shows cruise passengers cost the City of Ketchikan rouglhy $8 million last year; the Federal Subsistence Board will decide in a few months whether Makhnati Island, near Sitka, remains closed to commercial herring fishing; a commentary from Petersburg resident Cindy Lynn about ballot propositions in the upcoming general election.