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00:12:39

Weekly Wrap October 3, 2025

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2025/10/06

On this week's episode, we hear about a NOAA report on entangled whales in 2024, an update on the St. Herman Harbor replacement project timeline and funds, Kodiak's main park has a new Alutiiq name, Election day in Kodiak is Oct. 7 for municipal elections, and Alaska Public Media tells us about the federal government shutdown that happened after end of day Sept. 30.

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00:29:04

Midday Report: October 03, 2025

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2025/10/03

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:Former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson is joining the race for governor. Bethel residents gathered on Wednesday to highlight Domestic Violence Awareness Month. And Juneau’s elementary schools have a library again after three years.Photo: The Tundra Women's Coalition demonstrates against domestic violence. (Marycait Dolan KYUK)

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00:35:27

Midday Report: October 02, 2025

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2025/10/02

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:Congress defunded public broadcasting, but this week, 14 public media stations in Alaska got some good news. A Pennsylvania man allegedly used the stolen identities of seven Alaskans in an attempt to steal their Permanent Fund Dividends in 2022. And Tuesday was Orange Shirt Day — a day of remembrance for Indigenous children who were separated from their culture and sent to residential schools across North America.

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00:31:20

Midday Report: October 01, 2025

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2025/10/01

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:Most of the staff running three Alaska newspapers in Homer, Kenai-Soldotna and Juneau resigned in protest yesterday. A Wasilla couple has been charged in connection with the death of a child that was in their care. And the Juneau Police Department is taking action to reform its policies after an officer was filmed slamming a man to the ground during an arrest in July.Photo: A copy of the Homer News is seen in 2015. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska

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00:28:15

Midday Report: September 30, 2025

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2025/09/30

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center is so far spared from closures coming to a third of these climate science centers across the country. Another glacial outburst flood is underway on the Taku River south of Juneau today. And the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $16.7 million dollar grant to begin construction of the first veterans cemetery in the Interior.Photo: The Taku River. (Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps)

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00:30:17

Midday Report: September 29, 2025

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2025/09/29

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game may allow Jet Skis, in Kachemak Bay. A Homer Republican state representative is declaring victory after pressuring the local newspaper to revise a story about a vigil honoring Charlie Kirk. And Alaska State Troopers shot and killed a man near Anchor Point on Thursday who they say brandished a knife after a footchase.Photo: Rep. Sarah Vance speaks during a beachside

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00:13:06

Weekly Wrap September 26, 2025

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2025/09/29

In this week's episode, we hear about early voting opening in Kodiak, a borough assembly member resigned, hydroponics in Ouzinkie, and the White House increased the price of H1B teachers — the one many schools use to hire teachers from abroad.

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00:29:06

Midday Report: September 26, 2025

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2025/09/26

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, dispatched U.S. aircraft Thursday to intercept four Russian military planes off Alaska. The Northwest Arctic community of Selawik hasn’t had consistent drinking water for over three weeks. And people from around the world are voting for their favorite to be the chubby champion of Fat Bear Week. Photo: Selawik, Alaska. (Northwest Arctic Borough)

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00:29:51

Midday Report: September 25, 2025

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2025/09/26

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The Alaska LNG Project netted two more agreements earlier this month during an energy conference in Italy. The only year-round medical clinic in the small Interior community of Healy announced last week (9/17) that it will soon close its doors. And St. Paul has lost its major air carrier.Photo: The Interior Community Health Center clinic in Fairbanks, pictured on Sept. 24, 2025. After Nov. 1, the facility will be the only INHC clinic. (Shelby

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00:31:34

Midday Report: September 23, 2025

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2025/09/24

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:University of Alaska Southeast staff and nursing students gathered at the Ketchikan campus to celebrate the new nursing lab. One family in Juneau is trying to raise a million dollars for a lifesaving treatment for their child. And researchers have been recording the mysterious “thrumming” sounds of humpback whales. Photo: A single-patient room inside UAS Ketchikan’s new nursing lab. (Hunter Morrison/KRBD)

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00:31:39

Midday Report: September 23, 2025

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2025/09/23

In today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey:Democrats and independents in the Alaska state Legislature are urging Congress to preserve federal funding for science and research. A project to map out the Pacific Northwest’s critical mineral potential Was frozen and put under review in February. And the U.S. Coast Guard is proposing a new two-way shipping route along the northern Alaska coast.Photo: The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Arctic Ocean. Photo by Petty Officer Second Class

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00:31:17

Midday Report: September 22, 2025

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2025/09/22

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:This year’s Permanent Fund Dividend will be exactly $1,000. Payments to more than 600,000 Alaskans are set to begin Oct. 2. The U.S. Senate rejected two partisan spending bills on Friday, bringing the country closer to a partial government shutdown on October 1st. And Senator Sullivan and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer were in Fairbanks Friday.Photo: Senator Sullivan and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer. (FaceBook)

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00:30:09

Midday Report: September 19, 2025

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2025/09/19

In today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey:Lawyers are trading arguments in a case challenging the state’s failure to process applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on time. Heat pumps are growing in popularity across the country, including in parts of Alaska. And a group in Unalakleet is bringing traditional dance back to life — after more than a century without it.

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00:34:29

Midday Report: September 18, 2025

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2025/09/18

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:State officials are investigating the death of a 37-year-old man found unresponsive on Sunday in his locked Anchorage jail cell. Sen. Lisa Murkowski broke from other Republicans on the firing last month of the Director of the Centers for Disease Control. And former Alaska attorney general Treg Taylor filed to join the 2026 race for governor Wednesday.Photo: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on an Alaska tour in August. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public

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00:30:33

Midday Report: September 17 , 2025

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2025/09/17

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:An unusually warm August and early September near Sitka has attracted an unusual fish to the area - tuna. A U.S. House hearing Tuesday on energy in Alaska was largely a tale of two Alaskas. And six years ago, a man tossed a message in a bottle on a patch of sea ice near Utqiagvik. This spring, it was finally found – thousands of miles away.Photo: Jared Nelson, left, and Adam Olson, with albacore tuna caught off the Sitka coast on Sept. 7. (Photo by

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00:31:39

Midday Report: September 16, 2025

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2025/09/16

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:Alaskans can expect a La Niña climate pattern this winter. Former Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor is asking the Alaska Public Offices Commission to exempt him from disclosing who is renting his apartments. And Unangax̂ dance is having something of a renaissance in the Aleutians.Photo: Unangax̂ dancers. (Lucy Bagley, KUCB

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00:30:13

Midday Report: September 15, 2025

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2025/09/15

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The U.S. Department of Education has announced that it will cut millions in federal grants for its Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions program. Scientists studying killer whales in Alaska are uncovering long-term impacts of a warmer ocean. And Native advocacy organizations say plans to reorganize U.S. Department of Agriculture could harm tribal food security programs.Photo: Killer whale. (AZ Animals)

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00:31:29

Midday Report: September 12, 2025

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2025/09/12

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:A man shot by Sand Point police last week was arraigned in Anchorage Thursday. Juneau has a cat problem. And the founder of the influential conservative blog Must Read Alaska says she resigned this week.Photo: Duke Ogata. (Alaska's News Source)

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00:34:42

Midday Report: September 11, 2025

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2025/09/11

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:U.S. Antimony Corporation says it's begun to recover antimony from old deposits at a historic mine near Ester Dome. Efforts to make part of the Kenai Spur Highway safer kicked off Tuesday. And the union that represents support staff at the Juneau School District is suing the district over its afterschool child care program.Photo: State and local officials break ground on a Kenai Spur Highway safety project on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 in Kenai,

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00:30:55

Midday Report: September 10, 2025

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2025/09/10

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua:The Northwest Arctic saw record breaking rainfall in August, which led to flooding, erosion and high water throughout the region. It’s getting harder for Alaskans to afford a place to live, whether that means buying a house or renting. And one man has been getting generations of people in Ketchikan to sing sea shanties for over 30 years.Photo: Sea shanty poster for the Alaska Fish House in Ketchikan.

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