KFSK Midday Magazine

Petersburg School Counselors are feeling stretched thin, and they're worried bout elevated anxiety levels among the students

An Alaska Airlines jet featuring a design by Alaska Native artist Crystal Worl is taking its inaugural flight

Scientists and tribal governments in Southeast Alaska are working together to assess landslide and flood risks

Petersburg Police received a "text for help" from a sinking vessel

A bill to increase per student state funding for schools reached the senate

Wrangell's community theater program premieres its second musical

State of Alaska is asking for a partial stay of a court order that would shut down this summer's king salmon troll fishery

Ketchikan superiour court judge ruled that a list of 14 traditioanl values can stay in Ketchikan's public schools

14 people are safe after an excursion vessel caught fire in Sitka this past weekend

Petersburg School Board holds its regular meeting tonight: a look at the agenda; Alaska's top medical officer Dr. Anne Zink says that Alaska came through the pandemic surprisingly well partly due to lessons learned from surviving a pandemic 100 years ago; The trial for the man accused of murdering Ketchikan doctor Eric Garcia in 2017 started this week in Anchorage; Cold temperatures have delayed spring planting for Alaska farmers; The Central Council of Tlinget and Haida Tribes of Alaska have withdrawn from Alaska Federation of Natives; the Coast Guard rescues two lost teens from Mt. Verstovia in Sitka on Saturday.

Representative Himschoot talks about the recent Legislative session and how it is affecting her constituents; The Sunflower Seastar is up for consideration as threatened under the Endangered Species Act; Ketchikan moves closer to doubling the number of marijuana stores in town; Wrangell Public Schools and the Borough are seeking a condition survey for the community's aging school buildings to prioritize renovations.

Alaska's congressional delegation strongly condemns a ruling by a Washington State judge that could close the Southeast Alaska King Salmon troll fishery; Greens Creek Silver mine on Admiralty Island is looking to expand and the potential effects has concerned some members of the public;A master fabric artists and basket weaver visits Petersburg; three wolverine kits are born at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage

Kodiak Island is expecting Its busiest cruise ship season this summer since before the pandemic; the trial in Ketchikan continues to determine if posting a list of traditional values in public schools violates the First Amendment; Firefighters learn how to investigate the source of fires and how to put them out with a controlled burn in Sitka; A Metlakatla woman is in custody on murder charges after she struck three people with her vehicle including her son and brother.

A U.S. District Judge affirmed a recommendation that could shutdown the troll fishery in Southeast Alaska; The trial in Ketchikan continues to determine whether traditional values posted on the wall violates the First Amendment.; residents in Wrangell appeal their property taxes when all properties in town were reassessed this year; The Petersburg Rotary Club and Junior Rotarians clean up Sandy Beach Park prior to the annual Easter Egg Hunt

Governor Dunleavy introduces a bill to pay full-time teachers bonuses for the next three years; Sitka has chosen a new site for the marine haulout facility but some think the time line for building it is too long; Representative Mary Peltola urges the Federal Government to form an International Watershed Board for colllaborative managment of transboundary rivers

Alaska Kelp Farmers are looking to South Korea for inspiration

Two boroughs in the Northwest Arctic paused a joint resolution in support of a controversial road project

Twenty seven year old Mark Cook is the third person to die in the custody of the Alaska Department of Corrections this year