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Petersburg’s Wright Auditorium gets $20K equipment upgrades with local support
The upgrades started with a grant awarded to the Petersburg Arts Council from the Petersburg Community Foundation, which grew over five times that amount with major contributions from local supporters.
Petersburg Borough Assembly approves purchase of new breathing equipment for firefighters
The Petersburg Borough Assembly unanimously approved a purchase for new safety equipment for the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department. The purchase will replace the department’s aging self-contained breathing apparatuses, which firefighters use to breathe during a fire.
Sport fishing for king salmon is less limited this year in Southeast Alaska
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced updated sport fishing regulations for Southeast Alaska. Resident sport anglers can harvest up to two wild king salmon a day. Nonresidents can harvest one per year, except for a three-fish window through June.
Petersburg saw double its average snowfall this winter, making it the 4th snowiest season on record
It’s been an unseasonably snowy winter across Southeast Alaska, and Petersburg is no outlier. So far, this is Petersburg’s 4th snowiest winter on record, a record that has been kept since 1924.
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National Poetry Month at KFSK
April is National Poetry Month! Recordings of poems can be found here.
Operations Assistant Position Now Open
KFSK seeks a qualified candidate to be our Operations Assistant. The Operations Assistant plays an important role as the public face and point of contact for people in day-to-day communication with the station.
DASDEC 3 Installation Completed
Last Spring, KFSK was awarded a grant for EAS equipment replacement by Petersburg Community Foundation. Installation of the new equipment was completed in February 2026.
KFSK seeks summer intern 2026
KFSK Public Radio is offering a full-time news internship this summer, providing hands-on experience in radio reporting, producing, and live on-air hosting. The deadline to apply is March 20
Southeast News
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‘Hearing our language is like medicine to us’: new book features Tlingit Raven stories in original language
“Yéil Kundayaayí, Adventures of Raven” in the SHI store. (Courtesy of Mircea Brown) Nonprofit...
KIC overcomes first hurdle in bringing healing center to Ketchikan
The Ketchikan Indian Community recently purchased and plans to convert the former Salmon Falls...
Ketchikan movie theater set to open for cruise ship season
The front lobby of the SEAMAX theater shown in early April. When the town’s only movie theater...
Lisa Murkowski talks ferry funding, Tongass National Forest, and the affordability of Alaskan homes
Sen. Lisa Murkowski christens the F/V Mirage, the first ever hybrid electric commercial fishing...
Alaska News
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The Anchorage Weekender: ‘Dino-Day,’ home improvement workshops and 5 other local events
Does the sunny weather make you want to get out there? The Anchorage Weekender rounded up seven...
Alaska Senate leaders still aiming for $1,000 dividend despite high oil prices
Sen. Bert Stedman, a Sitka Republican, said he’d rather direct additional revenue toward...
Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, April 8, 2026
State lawmakers disagree on a proposed super-sized Permanent Fund dividend.
Anchorage School District to transfer STEM accreditation from Campbell Elementary to Klatt
The Anchorage School Board voted to close Campbell STEM Elementary to address the district’s...
This doctor turned a 31-foot RV into one of the country’s only mobile OB-GYN clinics
Mary Fariba Afsari’s book, Labor, is a portrait of reproductive healthcare in post-Dobbs America. Her book also is about her Iranian heritage and her grandmother’s death from an illegal abortion.
In the Trump era, everybody’s talking about ‘soft power.’ But … what is it exactly?
The U.S. government long saw giving international aid as a way to build goodwill throughout the...
Iran-U.S. ceasefire off to a shaky start. And, Bill Gates to testify in Epstein probe
Attacks persist across the Middle East despite the two-week ceasefire deal between the U.S. and...
Trump warns strikes will resume if Iran doesn’t agree to his peace terms
President Trump said that any peace deal would not allow nuclear enrichment in Iran, and would...
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