KFSK Midday Magazine

The Petersburg Ranger District has approved repairs to the aging West Point cabin on Kupreanof Island; Petersburg is hosting the annual Southeast Honors Music Festival, with a concert tonight; general election early voting started yesterday in communities around Alaska.

Petersburg's Borough Assembly will look at raising fees and tightening requirements at the Mountain View Manor assisted living facility in Petersburg; Sitka's childcare shortage is creating all sorts of consequences in the community; water levels on Juneau's Mendenhall Lake and River are returning to normal after a glacial outburst flood last night.

Petersburg's Harbor Board approved a proposal to use borough funds to help a cruise line extend the local port dock; Goldbelt Incorporated and Royal Caribbean Group recently announced a partnership to develop a new cruise ship port on the backside of Douglas Island; a new state law aims to make it easier to bring experienced teachers into Alaska schools, and keep them there.

The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted last week to accept grant money to repair the breakwater at Banana Point; Trident Seafoods announced Monday that Pacific Seafood will buy its Kodiak facility; a look at the long, wild history of Skagway's Red Onion Saloon.

Skylark Park LLC is one step closer to buying borough land after the Petersburg Borough Assembly voted unanimously last week to approve their application; the city of Kupreanof - which has a population of just over 20 people - canvassed its election results on Monday; a play in Anchorage focuses on the high rate of missing and murdered Indigenous people in Alaska.

The Petersburg School Board will hear updates on the middle and high school dress code, and school capital projects at tonight's meeting; the Sitka School Board has agreed on a plan that would create a district preschool for up to 20 students - but it won't be free; various groups are pushing for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to take action on trawling.

Petersburg's nonprofit violence prevention and advocacy organization WAVE has a new director; Juneau's cold weather emergency warning shelter will open for the winter next week; new campaign finance data shows moderate candidates have a big fundraising advantage in some key state House and Senate races.

One hundred bull moose have been harvested in the Central Southeast hunt, less than a week before the season closes; the Alaska Marine Highway's long range plan was recently discussed at Southeast Conference in Ketchikan; a dispute with the police over the management of Sitka's animal shelter came to a head recently.

PIA is expanding City Creek Trail, one of many they've built around Petersburg. They're doing it with federal money that funds tribal transportation projects; no one was injured in a large fire in Haines this weekend, but it destroyed several businesses and apartments; a look at Juneau's short-term rental registration program, one year in.

The Petersburg High School cross country teams - both boys and girls - are champions after the state meet in Anchorage this weekend; a landslide in Ketchikan Sunday night trapped nearly a dozen people in a remote stretch of road north of the city; Alaska Public Media reporters visited communities across the state talking to voters about the issues that are most important to them in this year's election.