KFSK Midday Magazine

The Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department has a new set of wheels;

Petersburg's cross country team competed in Wrangell this weekend;

and this year's cold, wet weather spoiled the berry harvest on the Kenai Peninsula.

A jury found the Petersburg Medical Center not at fault after a 6 year medical malpractice suit; Petesrburg's School Board meets tonight for the first time since classes started in late August; the federal government is looking for input from the public on proposed changes to how fisheries are managed in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea.

Petersburg is looking for cost-effective solutions for getting rid of its garbage;

A new study suggests booming hatchery populations could be suffocating Southeast salmon;

and this year's growing season bodes poorly for pumpkins.

New Petersburg Cross-country Coach Casey Gates reflects on the team's first meet in Klawock; Bristol Bay could see fewer returns next year according to a pre-season forecast; Interior Secretary Deb Haaland canceled all oil and gas leases in theArctic National Wildlife Refuge, Former Coroner and Magistrate Judge Rick Siangco passed away in Juneau last month.

A legendary Petersburg climber is passing the torch to the next generation;

The National Parks Service identified two people who are presumed dead in a Wrangell-St. Elias plane crash;

and a new Head Start facility opened in Unalaska.

Alaska will begina publishing quarterly reports about missing Indigenous people; A 2022 suit filed by Petersburg Police Chief James Kerr against the Petersburg Borough has been refiled by the borough as a civil rights suit in the district federal court; a cat named Leo, missing since last month's flooding in Juneau, is now home safe.

The Alaska Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a ban on trans athletes participating in girls high school sports; the US Fish and Wildlife Service has denied a petition to put Southeast Alaska wolves on the endangered species list; a conversation with Petersburg's new first grade teacher, Jolie Norman.

An interview with new Petersburg 4th grade teacher Sharon Paulsen; One Assembly member retires, while another chooses to run again in a contested race in October; the Coast Guard was very busy with rescues over the last weekend; Homer Farmer's Market brings back Zucchini Fest

There is a new high school math teacher this year; Low chum salmon prices lead to salmon buyers closing early in Kotzebue Sound; Sitka is an expensive place to live, as measured by national metrics; a humpback whale calf is found dead near Juneau; President Biden will visit joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on September 11th.

Petersburg's Borough Assembly set a new precedent for the sale of its tidelands;

Three years of huge salmon returns in Bristol Bay have flooded the markets in Kenai;

and The U.S. Forest Service greenlit a project on Admiralty Island.