KFSK Midday Magazine

Researchers have noted high levels of paralytic shellfish toxin in Ketchikan; a new loan program in Juneau will help families purchase mobile homes in a tight housing market; a conversation about a canoe journey to Celebration in Juneau.

A Petersburg hunting guide appeared on the Netflix series "Meateaters;" a regional economic development organization announced last month that they'd received funding to install heat pumps on Prince of Wales Island; former President Donald Trump has endorsed Republican candidate Nancy Dahlstrom in the race for Alaska's one seat in the U.S. House.

A Petersburg-based commercial crab boat capsized in Duncan Canal on Sunday morning; it was a colder and wetter May for nearly all of Southeast Alaska, but meteorologists say there's no clear answers to why; the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Friday that shells of the invasive European green crab have been spotted near Ketchikan

The Petersburg Borough Assembly will take comment tonight on a proposed change to how the Assembly makes sales tax exemptions; a team of experts in forensics is visiting Petersburg and other towns in Southeast this week; a hydroelectric project in Angoon finally has the funds to launch after more than 40 years.

Anglers fishing for king salmon in the saltwater near Blind Slough will only be able to keep one fish, starting tomorrow; a mountain lion was shot and killed on Wrangell Island recently; Mary Peltola introduced two bills in the House aimed at addressing bycatch in federal trawl fisheries.

The Petersburg School Board unanimously approved next year's budget, and said goodbye to superintendent Erica Kludt-Painter on Tuesday night; a Ketchikan woman is still missing after a second full day of searching yesterday; Silver Bay Seafoods has purchased Trident's processing plant in False Pass.

An update to the EPA's lead and copper rule means that every public water system in the country has to inventory each water service line; a federal lawsuit over fishing rights for Alaska's only Native reservation is likely heading to trial; a drag story time in Seward faced a bomb threat on Saturday.

Alaska State Troopers have identified the person who died in a boating accident near Petersburg last week; next year's school budget is up for approval at the Petersburg School board meeting tonight; a conversation with a member of Celebration's lead Indigenous dance group.

A look at what it could mean for Alaskans if the federal government grants Gulf of Alaska king salmon Endangered Species Act protections; a conversation with Sitka Republican Senator Bert Stedman about this session's budget process and the outlook for next year.

One person has died and another was take to a local hospital after two boats collided south of Petersburg yesterday; the owner of a downtown Ketchikan property has agreed not to raise inauthentic totem poles carved by a convicted murderer next to his new shops; Lisa Murkowski was one of only two Republican senators to vote for a bill that would put the right to contraception into federal law.