KFSK Midday Magazine

The union representing Alaska's longshore workers reached a tentative bargaining agreement;

Ketchikan's City Council is considering whether to renew the lease of a controversial emergency shelter;

And a dozen students from across Alaska visited Kotzebue to learn about renewable energy.

Wrangell is preparing to welcome a Hawaiian voyaging canoe;

There's a Dungeness crab boom in the Bering Sea, but scientists don't know how long it'll last;

And Sitka's School District is bracing for the impacts of Governor Mike Dunleavy's education funding vetoes. However, homeschool enrollment could help the district's finances.

Petersburg is getting ready to welcome a Polynesian voyaging canoe;

The state ferry Columbia is out of service for repairs;

A three-year-old in Unalaska won an award for reading 1,000 books with his parents.

Southeast Trollers will have a summer season for king salmon after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a stay of an earlier ruling.; Juneau school district leaders face a budget deficit; Local schools struggle with meeting budgets for food as prices rise; The US military left contaminated areas around Unalaska after World War II and the local tribe is teaming up with scientists to address the contamination.

US Appeals Court issued ruling allowing trollers to fish king salmon starting July 1

US coast Guard suspended its search for an overdue boater near Kake

A Wrangell podcast received national recognition for a series on maritime disasters

A Sitka troller published her memoir, celebrating life on the water

Petersburg Borough Assembly approved an ordinance to rezone borough property for a proposed new medical center

Govern Mike Dunleavy veoted half the appropriations the state legislature approved in a one-time increase in school funding

Scientists are studying activity at a volcano near Sitka

Petersburg Borough Assembly will consider an ordinance that would rezone part of Service Area One to make way for building a new medical center

Senator Dan Sullivan is trying to close a loophole in the US ban on imported Russion seafood

The new Archbishop of the Orthodox Church of Alaska paid his first visit to the Aleutian Islands

Southeast Alaska dungeness crab fishery opened June 15, but about a quarter of the permit holders is skipping the season altogether

Wrangell's 68th salmon derby kicks off today

A familiar voice has joined KFSK's newsroom

Climate-driven catastrophes are driving up property insurance rates in Alaska

Researchers are using an underwater robot to learn more about the human history of Prince of Wales Island

A thousand people came out to welcome the Hokulea a Hawaiian voyaging conoe in Juneau

Petersburg is dealing with anew wave of COVID-19 cases in the wake of several large public gatherings and the influx of travelers

Wrangell is looking at a high price tag on a new disinfection process at its sewer plant

Gas seeps were discovered near the Aleutian Islands