The Ketchikan School District faces a $6 million budget deficit; a Metlakatla man is indicted for a deadly car crash; the state House passes a bill to regulate property assessments; and Alaska passes a grim milestone for opioid overdoses.

Three southeast cities lost power today when a fire sparked on an electrical pole in Ketchikan; Ketchikan gets an upgraded baseball field; three crabbers are charged for trying to sell Alaska crab out of state; and a call for ornaments for this year’s U.S. Capitol Christmas tree, which is set to come from the Tongass National Forest.

Ketchikan’s Trident processing plant officially changed hands today, a new Tlingit and Haida culture campus is coming to Juneau, a seafood co-op in Sitka is upgrading its energy systems, and a look at the many options for treating alcohol use disorder, including medications.

Alaska tightens residency requirements for hunting and fishing licenses. University of Alaska tackles climate change’s economic impact on fishing in the Gulf of Alaska. Getting to the root of silverweed.

A Ketchikan man receives an award from the FBI, a tragedy in the personal life of Juneau Mayor Beth Weldon, a closer look at the court decision on Alaska’s homeschool program, and an update from the state’s first Amazon ground-delivery station. 

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report...

The Denver Art Museum is under fire for refusing to repatriate Tlingit cultural items, and a look at an Arrakis-like landscape in Alaska.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report...

A new nonprofit in Craig hopes to reclaim the Haida language, we'll hear from ADF&G commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang on the state of fish, and we'll step behind the curtain of the Alaska Independence Party. Those stories and more.

Some Ketchikan students spent spring break putting on a play based on a Tsimshian origin story. Gov. Dunleavy defends the state’s homeschooling program after a Superior Court ruled it unconstitutional. The issues around bycatch in the Bering Sea Pollock fishery boiled over at a recent meeting of the NPFMC.

Borough, city and Saxman leaders move forward with the disaster declaration stemming from last week’s South Tongass fire. AMHS finds a new way to fund projects across the state. The state’s homeschool system under fire. Alaska Native tribes see a rise in cultural tourism.

The Division of Forestry releases its plan for selling timber on Revilla Island. Peter Pan Seafoods shutters its doors. The US Interior Department begins initiative to document Native boarding school abuse. An extremely rare sight in Southeast Alaska – a bowhead whale.