Kayhi students walked out of class today in protest on Gov. Dunleavy's veto of SB140. Other student walkouts took place across Alaska. Airport parking rates are going up in Ketchikan starting this summer.

After a heated discussion, the city council votes to extend First City Haven homeless shelter on a short-term basis. Also, a tribal healthcare provider is suing the federal government over costs it says it’s owed.

Without an increase to state education funding, the Ketchikan school board expects to be in the red. Chatting with a two-time champion of the other grueling, extreme race following the Iditarod. Alaska’s first-of-its-kind plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Grant Echohawk drops out of the race for the District 1 House seat. A land trust clashes with the National Park Service in Sitka. Mary Peltola talks fish and her reelection campaign.

A regional landslide warning system for communities large and small. A new way to track fish. USDA funding to improve locally grown food. Troubles in the Sitka Sac Roe herring fishery. 

A major Alaska utility provider is moving its headquarters to Ketchikan, an onsite marijuana consumption business gets approved in Juneau, Sitka considers creating a Tourism commission, and leaders of a federal agency discuss resource development along Alaska coastlines.

Legislators contemplate the future of Alaska education funding, Alaska’s biggest city considers regulating short-term rentals, humpback whales are going missing, and a Sitka reporter samples sushi in Japan.

A new report lays out the state of Alaska’s aquaculture industry, Wrangell’s old hospital may turn into future housing, the Raptor Center in Sitka seeks a new director, and 16 tarantulas in Juneau find a new home.

EC Phillips is announced as the buyer for Trident’s Petersburg Plant. Alaska reaches a multimillion dollar settlement with CVS for their role in the opioid crisis. We continue our journey through Japan in hot pursuit of Alaska herring. The Alaska legislature plan a task force to the address the seafood industry’s tailspin. The Juneau school district reacts to Gov. Dunleavy’s veto. 

A Sitka-based company is buying a Ketchikan processing plant from Trident Seafoods, the deadline looms for Gov. Dunleavy’s decision on a bipartisan education bill, the Alaska legislature rejects executive orders, and KCAW’s Katherine Rose reports back from Japan.