KRBD Evening Report KRBD

Teams finish their Race to Alaska this week in Ketchikan. Trail crews in Southeast try to keep up with more mud. We’ll hear from someone who paddled to Celebration. 

Passengers survive a capsized crab boat near Petersburg; dangerous levels of paralytic shellfish toxins were found at Settler’s Cove; the Juneau Assembly increases funding for a mobile home loan program; and a long-planned hydroelectric project in Angoon is finally moving forward.

Invasive green crabs have expanded from the waters off Metlakatla; Southeast Alaska’s May weather was a little wetter and colder than some were hoping for; and a look at local farming in Wrangell.

Training Southeast Alaska healthcare professionals on handling assault. The saltwater king sport fishery south of Petersburg is limited to one fish this weekend. Chemists, museum curators, and Alaska Native weavers team up to solve an ancient mystery.

Day 3 of the search for a missing Ketchikan woman but no leads. A regional economic development organization secures funding to install heat pumps on Prince of Wales Island. A mountain lion shows up in Wrangell. 

The search continues for a missing Ketchikan woman. Silver Bay seafoods acquires another former Trident processing plant. And an animal rescue in Juneau acquires a lot of cats.