KRBD Evening Report

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: South Tongass Highway is defaced with an 11-foot wide swastika – plus, a man died and another was injured while subsistence fishing for herring eggs near Sitka last week.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Racist and homophobic graffiti appears on a trail and at a skatepark in Ketchikan – plus, Ketchikan's school board will hold a public hearing on next year's budget.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:   Public health delivers second doses of COVID19 vaccines to Hyder residents, the Sitka school district plans to return to full-time, in-person learning next year, and Alaskans have until August 15th to sign up for federally-subsidized medical insurance…Those stories and more coming up.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Lawmakers debate whether to allow shellfish hatcheries in Alaska – plus, subsistence advocates in Sitka seek to pass traditional knowledge to a new generation.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: A NOAA facility in Ketchikan will get an $18.7 million upgrade, paving the way for a research vessel to tie up at its home port – plus, the pandemic has driven a boom in the world of indigenous earring makers in Alaska. NOTE: KRBD will be off tomorrow, Thursday, April 8. We'll be back Friday.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan's borough may ask voters whether to extend a 5% sales tax on marijuana – plus, a group of Juneau medical providers are offering cash prizes for those who get vaccinated against COVID-19.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Some worry the CDC's new guidance for cruise ships is unworkable for cruise lines and port communities – plus, this school year has been hard for both Ketchikan students and teachers – we hear from one of each.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:  Ketchikan’s city council will commit thousands to try to seek more pandemic relief from the federal government, the borough assembly continues exploring ways to fill a $1 million education gap, and Senator Bert Stedman outlines challenges facing legislators due to dwindling budget reserves.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan's City Council will consider hiring a consultant and a lobbyist as it seeks more pandemic relief funds – plus, a measure asking Congress to allow cruise ships to bypass Canada passes the Alaska state House.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan's school board has completed its first regular evaluation of the school district's superintendent, but won't share its findings publicly – plus, a fire took the life of a Metlakatla man on Tuesday.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Native dancers from Southeast Alaska and around the country honor veterans of the Vietnam War – plus, Prince of Wales Island is home to a newly-discovered mammal.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan's school board will resume evaluating the district's top administrator and take public testimony tomorrow – plus, Sitka's herring fishery opened over the weekend. It's KRBD's spring fundraising drive -- you can give at KRBD.org, or click here for a direct link .

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:  Some Alaska lawmakers are pushing for a resolution asking the federal government to allow large cruise ships to bypass Canadian ports; Wes Loe, the unofficial mayor of Hyder, Alaska died earlier this month, we have a remembrance; and there are only a few days left to apply for the Paycheck Protection Plan.

Tonight on the KRBD Evening Report:   What’s it like serving on the front lines of COVID-19? PeaceHealth Ketchikan’s medical director shares his experiences over the past year, Ketchikan’s school board hears about the need to recover learning lost due to the pandemic, and Petersburg’s Little Norway Festival will be back, in some form, in 2021.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: The state of Alaska, business groups and companies file to defend a Roadless Rule exemption for the Tongass National Forest – plus, the CDC says it's not planning to lift its Conditional Sailing Order in time for the Alaska cruise season.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan's superintendent of schools is back on the job after roughly three-months on leave– plus, as part of our series looking back on the past year of the pandemic, a conversation with a Ketchikan grocery store clerk.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan's fire chief and emergency manager reflects on the past year of the pandemic – plus, state troopers send human remains found in the burned-out home of a Port Protection resident to the state medical examiner for identification.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Cruises are returning to North America, but cancellations are taking a bite out of the Alaska season – plus, a Prince of Wales Island man featured in a National Geographic reality show is feared dead.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: State health department inspectors ding Bartlett Regional Hospital for infection control issues – plus, lawmakers are looking to raise the state's lowest-in-the-nation fuel tax.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan city officials recommend layoffs as the city grapples with the financial impacts of a second canceled or severely reduced cruise season – plus, a look at a new documentary film spotlighting a resident of Point Baker.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Hundreds of people got their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine today at a mass vaccination clinic– plus, a Dunleavy administration plan to privatize some DMV offices faces pushback from across the political spectrum.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: 20-plus inches of snow sent cars off cliffs and sank three boats over the weekend – plus, the story told by a dime-sized fragment of dog bone found near Wrangell.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Metlakatla appeals a fishing rights case against the Dunleavy administration – plus, the heartwarming and unlikely story of a kitten on the Matanuska.

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: A man is arrested for allegedly firing a gun during an argument near a Ketchikan school – plus, a settlement leaves an open question: who gets to be called a journalist in Alaska, and who doesn't?

On tonight's KRBD Evening Report: Ketchikan announces three mass vaccination clinics in the coming weeks – plus, Port Alexander turns to a creative solution to keep the small community's school alive.