KFSK Midday Magazine

Petersburg's Borough Assembly is considering whether to request control of a state-owned seaplane dock in need of repair; wildlife troopers charged a Homer man this week with four counts of illegal fishing in Unalaska waters; the Skagway Borough Assembly postponed a decision on what to do with land that was the site of a boarding school for Indigenous children.

Petersburg Medical Center will hold its monthly meetings in the Assembly Chambers going forward in response to community input;

a fire broke out aboard the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Columbia;

and Juneau is celebrating another growing season.

The list of candidates for Petersburg's 2023 municipal election is in; a crewmember on an American Seafoods factory trawler died at sea last week, likely from an ammonia leak; US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg focused on the ferry system during the last stop of his Alaska trip in Juneau.

Freshman Assembly Member Scott Newman reflects on his first year in office;

New grants will help two tribes bring culturally important items home;

Wrangell's school district is grappling with the effects of Governor Mike Dunleavy's statewide cuts to education funding.

Petersburg's assembly is taking public testimony on the sale of Borough-owned tidelands at tonight's meeting;

Assembly member Donna Marsh reflects on her first year in office;

and a U.S. Senator from Arkansas is surveying food security in Alaska.

Devils Thumb mountain was recently climbed for the first time by someone born and raised in Petersburg; endangered Copper River sea lions have been turning up dead all summer, many with gunshot wounds; congenital syphilis rates in Alaska have risen steadily over the past five years; Sitka has a new trash compactor and there's hope that it will help lower Sitka's steep garbage bills.

A new survey revealed that Petersburg needs more than 300 houses to overcome the shortage;

The Department of Transportation is sending Alaska more than $44 million to help fish get across roads;

and NOAA released a sweeping five-year plan to promote America's seafood industry.

The price of elementary school lunches in Petersburg will increase by 25 cents;

There could be up to five times as many streams in Alaska than previously thought, according to a new study;

and major changes could be coming to Juneau's waterfront.

Petersburg's school board is holding its first meeting of the new school year;

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a 400% increase to the cost of a visit to the Anan Creek wildlife observatory;

and a Kake resident finds healing in the traditional Lingít craft of folding roses out of cedar bark.

Petersburg's middle and high school students will have a new principal this year;

Warming waters and melting ice are allowing Alaska's humpback whales to migrate further north;

and a superior court judge sentenced a Petersburg man to serve 20 years for a 2020 sexual assault.