KFSK Midday Magazine

Petersburg's Viking Swim Club hosted its annual meet, November Rain, this past weekend; Sitka's Fish and Game Advisory Committee sorted through proposals to change herring management in the area; the Alaska Department of Elections will finish their vote count today and start ranked choice tabulations for candidates with less than 50% of the vote.

Petersburg's school board will vote at tonight's meeting on whether to tweak next year's school calendar; Petersburg hosted the annual Stikine Middle School Basketball championships over the weekend - and five Petersburg teams competed; a state task force is looking at the increase in the invasive European Green Crab in Southern Southeast Alaska.

Petersburg's Borough Assembly will hear from the public on a change to code meant to discourage owners of inactive vessels from taking up space in the harbors; Juneau lost power on Friday after the connection to its main hydroelectric source failed; Sitka ceremonially broke ground on a new marine haulout at its marine industrial park.

Veterans in Petersburg came together yesterday for a parade; Silver Bay Seafoods will acquire processing plants in Dillinham and Port Moller; game managers on Prince of Wales Island are using a trained dog to track and understand wolves, through their poop.

Petersburg swimmer Lexie Tow is a state champion after finishing first in the girls 100 yard breaststroke in Anchorage this weekend; wolf trapping is expected to open this Friday for a month-long season on Prince of Wales Island; a recent opinion from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirms that any coastal tribal member can hunt sea otters, regardless of blood quantum.

A long, loud clap of thunder shook Petersburg residents just after 11 p.m. last night; an acre of muskeg along Petersburg's Haugen Drive had been slowly transforming into a parking lot over the last month; there are plans to break ground on an expansion of the Hecla Greens Creek mine near Juneau some time next year.

SEAPA is set to receive $5 million in federal funds to increase its energy generation capacity; Alaska's Republicans are hopeful that Tuesday's election results will create more opportunity for oil drilling and other development on Alaska's federal lands; cleanup work began this fall on a former WWII defense site near Sitka.

Nearly two thirds of Petersburg's general election voters yesterday favored Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, and just over half voted for Nick Begich III over Mary Peltola; conversations with Petersburg voters about their priorities and concerns; last week a Petersburg jury found a resident guilty of sexually assaulting a woman five years ago.

Searchers from Sitka on Wednesday recovered the body of a hunter who died from a brown bear attack; Petersburg's Volunteer Fire Department responded to a chimney fire on South Nordic Drive Tuesday afternoon; the Canadian government is moving forward with a mine very close to the headwaters of the Stikine River

Petersburg residents will get a chance to weigh in this Monday on proposed changes to the way the borough sells its tidelands; it's Halloween, which means it's time for Kenai's Rocky Horror Picture Show; a commentary from Petersburg resident Sharon Hunter discussing her reasons for voting "no" on Alaska's Proposition 2.

The Alaska Marine Highway's 20 year plan is in the works; last weekend the U.S. government apologized for the bombardment of Angoon over a century ago; a commentary from Petersburg resident Brian Smith in favor of Alaska's ranked choice voting.

Petersburg's tribe has a new administrator: Jalyn Pomrenke; farmers in Ketchikan qualify for new tax exemptions; and the Alaska Court of Appeals won't give relief to a Sitka man convicted of multiple murders.

Petersburg's borough-managed assisted living facility might be getting more expensive; the forecast for the Bering Sea's biggest crab fishery is looking good; and a bill that passed this summer will streamline the leasing process for Alaska mariculturists.

A Sitka resident shot and killed a brown bear sow and one of her cubs early yesterday morning; Ketchikan has had a sharp increase in ambulance call-outs in recent years - the city is combating the problem with a new preventable care program; a new walking tour in Petersburg takes participants on a naturalist's journey of Mitkof Island's landscapes.

Petersburg's hospital employees preparing for next summer's move to the new Wellness, Education, and Resource Center, also called the WERC building; the month-long moose hunt in Central Southeast Alaska close on October 15 with a large harvest of bulls; the future of King Cove is uncertain after the closure of the state-back Peter Pan Seafoods plant earlier this month.

New research shows cruise passengers cost the City of Ketchikan rouglhy $8 million last year; the Federal Subsistence Board will decide in a few months whether Makhnati Island, near Sitka, remains closed to commercial herring fishing; a commentary from Petersburg resident Cindy Lynn about ballot propositions in the upcoming general election.

The Petersburg Ranger District has approved repairs to the aging West Point cabin on Kupreanof Island; Petersburg is hosting the annual Southeast Honors Music Festival, with a concert tonight; general election early voting started yesterday in communities around Alaska.

Petersburg's Borough Assembly will look at raising fees and tightening requirements at the Mountain View Manor assisted living facility in Petersburg; Sitka's childcare shortage is creating all sorts of consequences in the community; water levels on Juneau's Mendenhall Lake and River are returning to normal after a glacial outburst flood last night.

Petersburg's Harbor Board approved a proposal to use borough funds to help a cruise line extend the local port dock; Goldbelt Incorporated and Royal Caribbean Group recently announced a partnership to develop a new cruise ship port on the backside of Douglas Island; a new state law aims to make it easier to bring experienced teachers into Alaska schools, and keep them there.

The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted last week to accept grant money to repair the breakwater at Banana Point; Trident Seafoods announced Monday that Pacific Seafood will buy its Kodiak facility; a look at the long, wild history of Skagway's Red Onion Saloon.

Skylark Park LLC is one step closer to buying borough land after the Petersburg Borough Assembly voted unanimously last week to approve their application; the city of Kupreanof - which has a population of just over 20 people - canvassed its election results on Monday; a play in Anchorage focuses on the high rate of missing and murdered Indigenous people in Alaska.

The Petersburg School Board will hear updates on the middle and high school dress code, and school capital projects at tonight's meeting; the Sitka School Board has agreed on a plan that would create a district preschool for up to 20 students - but it won't be free; various groups are pushing for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to take action on trawling.

Petersburg's nonprofit violence prevention and advocacy organization WAVE has a new director; Juneau's cold weather emergency warning shelter will open for the winter next week; new campaign finance data shows moderate candidates have a big fundraising advantage in some key state House and Senate races.

One hundred bull moose have been harvested in the Central Southeast hunt, less than a week before the season closes; the Alaska Marine Highway's long range plan was recently discussed at Southeast Conference in Ketchikan; a dispute with the police over the management of Sitka's animal shelter came to a head recently.

PIA is expanding City Creek Trail, one of many they've built around Petersburg. They're doing it with federal money that funds tribal transportation projects; no one was injured in a large fire in Haines this weekend, but it destroyed several businesses and apartments; a look at Juneau's short-term rental registration program, one year in.