KFSK Midday Magazine

An education-focused non profit says they are preparing to sue the state for inadequately funding Alaska schools; researchers are refining a method to track populations of fish using DNA left behind in the water; Petersburg Medical Center CEO Phil Hofstetter talks about biking the Iditarod trail for the Iditabike ultramarathon.

The Petersburg Borough can now sell land assessed at up to $1,500,000 without a public vote; a regional working group in Southeast Alaska wants to create a landslide warning system for the region's smaller communities; Alaska has submitted a plan to the federal government that would reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming.

Lawmakers from Petersburg's District 2 were among those who voted to override the governor's veto of a major education funding bill on Monday; a recent report from the National Marine Fisheries Service looks at Alaska's rapidly growing aquaculture industry; Petersburg's Viking basketball players are the reigning champions of this year's regional and state tournaments.

Petersburg residents will be able to weigh in on multiple ordinances during public hearings at tonight's Borough Assembly meeting; the Alaska Legislature is planning to create a seafood industry task force that would give recommendations to help sustain the state's seafood industry; a Ketchikan master weaver is helping to create a pipeline of weaving teachers through an apprenticeship program in Sitka.

The deadline for Gov. Mike Dunleavy to veto a wide-ranging education bill has almost passed -- but the future of the funding the bill promises is uncertain;

Petersburg might be getting a new boat haulout out of a six-bill appropriations package that passed in the U.S. Senate last week;

and home bakers in Alaska are finding sweet success on Instagram.

The Last Great Race has its first six-time champion: Dallas Seavey;

the Alaska Legislature rejected eight executive orders issued by Gov. Mike Dunleavy;

and Petersburg's girls' basketball coach took a look back on his team's season.

Petersburg's Trident plant has a buyer;

the U.S. Forest Service is opening a timber sale in Thomas Bay focused on second-growth trees;

and Petersburg's Forest Service buildings might be getting an update.

Petersburg's Borough Assembly members tried to reach an agreement with Alaska Mental Health's Land Trust Office over the sale of a subdivision, to no avail;

the Anchorage Assembly is asking Alaska's congressional delegation to support a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War;

and the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka is looking for a new director.

Alaska Republicans can vote fora presidential nominee today in the Republican Presidential Preference Poll; the National Marine Fisheries Service is in the process of expanding the critical habitat of North Pacific Right Whales off the coast of Alaska; Chrystine Lynn was honored recently with the Chamber of Commerce's Petersburg Young Leader Award.

The Petersburg Borough Assembly is considering allowing borough land to be sold below assessed value to private citizens and businesses; a bill in the state House would redefine the terms "person" and "life" with big implications for reproductive rights and abortion providers; Unalaska is working toward building a geothermal plant.