KFSK Midday Magazine

Wrangell's new water treatment plant is almost done; a yearly test of Alaska's tsunami warning system has been cancelled; and Petersburg Borough officials say it'll be tough to get the local funding that the school district says it needs.

A new report in Haines highlights parts of the borough that might be prone to landslides; three people arrested on felony drug charges were arraigned in Wrangell; and a team of researchers in Alaska have banded together to investigate a famous Alaska shipwreck.

Hatchery production of chum and pink salmon will continue as usual this year in Southeast; the man suspected of providing the drugs that lead to deaths in Skagway is now facing federal charges; and Petersburg's high school basketball teams had their final home games of the season last weekend.

State senators passed a bill that would lower the minimum age to serve alcohol at restaurants; Southeast anglers will be able to harvest king salmon all season under new regulations the Board of Fisheries adopted last week; a conversation about the economic benefit of outdoor recreation and trails.

Petersburg middle schoolers qualified for a national robotics competition earlier this month; three Southeast Alaskans delivered traditional Knowledge reports to the Alaska Board of Fisheries last week; and a look at wintertime gardening in Alaska.

Ketchikan is now officially classified as rural in the eyes of federal subsistence regulations; Petersburg's annual Project Connect resource fair and Point in Time count happened last week; the borough of Bristol Bay plans to build housing for one third of Naknek's teachers.

Petersburg's borough assembly voted down a K-9 unit for the police department at their meeting Monday; geologists visited the site of Wrangell's landslide and presented their findings to the community last month; the Alaska Department of Fish and Game will not open a new commercial fishery for magister squid in Southeast Alaska.

The U.S. Forest Service has new reports that will inform how the Tongass will be managed in the decades to come; Southeast Alaskans will be able to take home yelloweye rockfish again; a look at the way uncertainty around federal funding is affecting nonprofits in Alaska.

Officials in Petersburg are scrambling to figure out which infrastructure projects are affected by Trump's day-one executive orders; the Board of Fisheries will deliberate on nearly 160 proposals over the next two weeks in Ketchikan; Alaska's anti-drug trafficking team seized over 75% more illicit drugs last year compared to the previous year.

The Alaska Board of Fisheries kicked off their regulatory meeting in Ketchikan yesterday; one proposal going before the Board of Fisheries would reduce the hatchery egg production of pink and chum salmon by 25% in Southeast Alaska; the Trump Administration's executive order for the state of Alaska has called into question protections for 28 million acres of wilderness in the state.

A fire damaged a Petersburg home yesterday; a conversation with Petersburg's new district ranger, Carey Case; the National Science Foundation awarded a team of researchers nearly $1 million to study glacial outburst flooding from Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier.

A Board of Fisheries proposal could allow a small commercial red king crab fishery to open when stock levels are lower than what's currently allowed; Juneau residents had a chance to ask questions and offer comments on a proposed fifth cruise ship dock at two meetings last week; the Alaska Legislature is working on a bill that would boost per-student funding by roughly 30%.

Several proposals headed to the Alaska Board of Fisheries next week would change how the state manages king salmons at Blind Slough on Petersburg's Mitkof Island; one of President Donald Trump's executive orders aims to rolls back protections on millions of acres in the Tongass National Forest; the Alaska Board of Education and Early Development released a draft statewide cell phone policy this we...

Information about Petersburg students and school staff may have been compromised after hackers got into a software system last month; seven tribal organizations across the state of Alaska received over $12 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last month; the Anchorage area has its first small-scale casino.

The City and Borough of Juneau is warning of a potential measles exposure at the SEATAC airport that could impact Southeast Alaska residents; thousands of Alaska residents have been waiting months for their retirement contributions to be processed; Petersburg's high school basketball teams hosted their third annual invitational last weekend.

Petersburg's borough assembly will decide tonight whether the borough can issue bonds to fund improvements to Petersburg's school district; police arrested two Sitka residents last week after a drug bust turned into a high speed car chase; President Trump signed an executive order yesterday that aims to undo most of his predecessors work on Alaska energy and environmental issues.

A national data breach has affected Alaska schools; Alaska red king crab are more genetically diverse than previously thought, according to a new study; a multi-million dollar project for a small boat haul-out in Petersburg is now fully funded.

A Southeast Alaska lawmaker has proposed a state alternative to federal flood insurance; the Federal Office of Subsistence Management had a new director; the executive director of Petersburg's violence prevention and advocacy organization is stepping down.

A Juneau lawmaker is pushing to revive a pension system for teachers and other state and local government workers in Alaska; Tlingit and Haida received $3 million for coastal habitat restoration in Southeast Alaska; Petersburg High School hosted homecoming last weekend, the Petersburg Vikings played their longtime rivals, the Wrangell Wolves.

A Petersburg home was destroyed in a fire yesterday afternoon; Juneau plans to rezone public land to allow for more housing density; a conversation with Alaskan members of the U.S. Council on Human Trafficking.

A Petersburg man indicted last month for allegedly sharing child sexual abuse material pleaded "not guilty" last week; eleven borough-owned lots in Petersburg will get utilities thanks to a collaboration between the Petersburg Indian Association, Tlingit and Haida, and the Petersburg Borough; Skagway's school district has had the highest assessment scores in the state for 13 years in a row.

Part of Petersburg's Main Street was closed for nearly an hour last night after witnesses say a speeding truck crashed into a trash can and several parked cars; a Washington state man died while exploring an abandoned mine on Prince of Wales Island; a look at findings from the state child care task force.

Petersburg's tribal members picked a new council president on Monday; the Petersburg Borough Assembly approved a wishlist of community projects at their Monday meeting; the Juneau Assembly approved a $3 million loan to help a developer build more housing.

Petersburg high school's basketball teams played their first conference games of the season in Craig last weekend; more than a dozen dedicated Wrangell residents spent their December searching for birds; Juneau's city-owned hospital finally has a contract with staff, after months of stalemate with the employee union.

Petersburg's student-run movie theater is in a financial crisis; Ketchikan has a new emergency warming shelter for unhoused tribal citizens; federal dollars are going to study mitigation possibilities for Juneau's glacial outburst floods.