KFSK Midday Magazine

Kodiak's Tanner crab season started Monday at noon, with prices between $3>50 and $3.70 per pound; debates over education funding dominated as lawmakers gathered in Juneau yesterday for the start of this year's legislative session; Petersburg's Viking basketball team hit the court in Haines last weekend against the Glacier Bears after many long hours of travel.

Chad Wright is no longer the Tribal Administrator at the Petersburg Indian Association. He turned in a letter of resignation last Wednesday; Petersburg's Borough Assembly will look at signing letters of support for fisheries across the state, in the face of years of hardship; seafood processor Peter Pan announced late last week that it will not operate its King Cove facility through the spring, bypassing the 2024 fishing season.

An 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Southeast Alaska late last night; the Petersburg School Board has invited superintendent candidate Robyn Taylor to visit Petersburg. She arrives today; Petersburg's Volunteer Fire Department responded to a sauna fire early yesterday morning, about 9 miles south of town.

The Petersburg Vikings took on their rivals, the Wrangell Wolves, this past weekend and the teams were neck and neck all the way through; Ketchikan's City Council approves a hike in rates and usage fees for the city-owned harbor last week; scientists with the Knik Tribe in South Central Alaska tested for Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning and found higher levels than usual.

All Max 09 airplanes in the U.S. are now grounded after a wall blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight last Friday; Petersburg Indian Association results are in and all four candidates challenging incumbents won; a bill in the Alaska Legislature aims to help families move off of food stamps by allowing their incomes to rise while benefiting from the program.

Petersburg's Borough Assembly finalized two priority lists of capital projects at its meeting last week; retreating glaciers are uncovering land that could be new habitat for salmon, but mining companies are also eager to explore the land; Ketchikan's public library is receiving more challenges to books this year.

Petersburg Medical Center is training community members to help youth in crisis amid rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide; Wrangell looks back at the help that the community received after their deadly November landslide; Ray Troll's Soho Coho gallery closes after three decades in Ketchikan.

The Alaska State Capitol received a bomb threat;

Sealaska is seeking Alaska Native artists to pitch designs for an upcoming gathering;

and volunteers spent New Year's Day working on trails for Petersburg's bike park.

CoastAlaska reporters from Petersburg, Wrangell, Sitka and Ketchikan look back at 2023; a commentary from submitted by Rebecca Knight.

A Washington man has plead guilty to selling fake Alaska Native art in Ketchikan;

Juneau police arrested a man after a three-hour standoff;

KFSK took a look back on 2023.