Local News
LatestSilver Bay Seafoods announces buyout of OBI
by Angela Denning, CoastAlaska | Mar 19, 2025
Silver Bay says it plans to manage all OBI facilities and operations, including processing plants in Petersburg, Seward, Kodiak, Larsen Bay, Egegik, Wood River, Cordova, and Naknek, as well as a warehouse and labeling facility in Kent, Washington.
Fire season starts early in Southeast, Southwest, and Southcentral Alaska
by Olivia Rose | Mar 18, 2025
Fire season marks the time of year when dryer conditions spark a higher risk of fires. The standard start date for wildland fire season is normally April 1, according to Alaska state statute. But for communities without much snow right now, it’s already here. The state issued a public order declaring an early start to fire season in parts of Alaska — including all of Southeast. Other affected areas include much of Southwest and Southcentral Alaska.
Property-related items on the agenda for Petersburg’s borough assembly
by Olivia Rose | Mar 17, 2025
Tonight, Petersburg’s borough assembly is scheduled to consider a few property-related items on the agenda.
Station Highlights
LatestPetersburg Medical Center Board Meetings – 4th Thursdays mostly, 5:30pm – Broadcast Live on KFSK – Next Meeting, March 27
by Tom Abbott, KFSK
PMC Board Meeting Agenda available here, KFSK live broadcast coverage of Petersburg Medical Center includes the monthly call-in program, “PMC Live” fourth Thursday of each month, 12:30pm, and monthly PMC Board meetings broadcast the 4th Thursday of each month, 5:30pm.
Women’s History Month – Midori Hinde & Laura Lombard
by Tom Abbott, KFSK
KFSK has an open airwaves policy. We encourage the public to express personal opinions, ideas, and...
Women’s History Month – Blayre Phillips
by Tom Abbott, KFSK
KFSK has an open airwaves policy. We encourage the public to express personal opinions, ideas, and...
Southeast News
LatestWolfe Point slide cleanup continues, DOT hopes to open vehicle access by Monday
by KRBD Ketchikan | Mar 22, 2025
Crews work to remove debris from a rockslide that came down over North Tongass Avenue Thursday,...
As Wolfe Point slide cleanup continues, crews will construct temporary bypass
by KRBD Ketchikan | Mar 22, 2025
Crews work to remove debris from a rockslide that came down Thursday over North Tongass Highway,...
Alaska’s draft 20-year ferry plan depends on steady federal funds
by KCAW Sitka | Mar 21, 2025
The M/V Columbia travels the Inside Passage in October 2023. (Photo by Jack Darrell/KRBD)A draft...
New Ketchikan company aims to kick-start Alaska kelp industry
by KRBD Ketchikan | Mar 21, 2025
Nick Stern holds up a strand of giant kelp, after harvesting it from a wild kelp bed near...
Alaska News
Latest4 candidates running for 2 open seats on Anchorage School Board
by APRN News | Mar 21, 2025
Ballots have already been mailed out to voters, and Election Day is April 1.
Report on missing Native people removed from federal websites
by APRN News | Mar 21, 2025
The 2023 report by the Not Invisible Act Commission focused on the disproportionate rates of...
Alaska News Nightly: Friday, March 21, 2025
by APRN News | Mar 21, 2025
Cuts to the NWS pose significant impacts to Alaskans. Plus, an MMIP report is removed from federal...
Anchorage Schools prepare for Mount Spurr eruption
by APRN News | Mar 21, 2025
District officials say they have a surplus of masks for every person at every school.
The U.S. lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, says Kabul
by NPR News | Mar 22, 2025
The U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister,...
Hundreds arrested in Turkey in protests against the detention of Istanbul’s mayor
by NPR News | Mar 22, 2025
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is accused of...
Trump says Boeing will build the new generation of fighter jets, the F-47
by NPR News | Mar 22, 2025
Trump said Boeing had won the contract to build the U.S. Air Force’s next generation of...
Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday, doctors say
by NPR News | Mar 22, 2025
The pontiff spent over five weeks being treated for bronchitis that evolved into a severe...
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