by Baiz Hoen | Aug 5, 2026

After two days of attempts, the team of a dozen volunteers from Petersburg Marine Mammal Center, along with NOAA’s Large Whale Entanglement Response Coordinator, successfully freed the whale on July 29. (Featured photo - PMMC / NOAA Fisheries Permit #24359)

Petersburg Borough Assembly adopts new wireless facility regulations after months of debate

by Olivia Rose | Aug 4, 2026

The Petersburg Borough Assembly has approved a major zoning update for regulating wireless communications facilities, like cell towers. Members adopted the regulations into local code after a final round of deliberation on July 20. The tower issue gained traction, and controversy, in Petersburg since new wireless infrastructure projects emerged last year. The long-anticipated zoning ordinance has been met with much criticism from all sides. But assembly members say the contested measure is at least a start.

Petersburg Borough Assembly to hold public hearings about nepotism standards, senior sales tax, and new service area

by Taylor Heckart | Aug 3, 2026

There are public hearings for four ordinances at tonight’s Petersburg Borough Assembly meeting.

Low catches close Southeast commercial Dungeness crab season three weeks early

by Taylor Heckart | Jul 31, 2026

Southeast Alaska’s commercial Dungeness crab summer season ended three weeks early, on July 25. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said the amount fishermen caught at the beginning of the season was the lowest amount in over 30 years.

Station Highlights

Fall Drive-Call for Artists

by kfskadmin

KFSK is seeking an artist to create art for this fall's thank you gifts. Deadline for art submission is August 15th.

Petersburg Borough Assembly meetings & Borough Business live show on KFSK — Audio Archive

by Tom Abbott, KFSK

Meeting Agendas and Schedules are available here at the borough website. Archive available-listen here

Petersburg Medical Center Live on KFSK — Audio Archive

by Tom Abbott, KFSK

PMC Board Meeting Agenda and Schedule available here, KFSK broadcasts a monthly call-in program with officials from Petersburg Medical Center, called “PMC Live,” on the last Thursday of each month. PMC audio archive-listen here

School Board Archive – Campus Connection

by Tom Abbott, KFSK

KFSK holds a live call-in show with school officials at 12:30 p.m. the day of School Board meetings. Find the Audio Archive here: School Board Meeting Archive

Southeast News

Slug slime and lichen-laced hair featured at exhibit about ‘everything’

by KCAW Sitka | Aug 6, 2026

Tiger Xu helps a slug slowly inch its way onto a misted window. (KCAW/Salemo) A thick slug sits on a deer heart leaf in Tiger Xu’s hands. He holds the leaf up to a large window misted with creek water. Petting it with his...

Commercial troll fishery to close briefly on Sunday

by KCAW Sitka | Aug 6, 2026

The Southeast Alaska commercial troll fishery will close briefly next week.In a release on Wednesday (8-5-26), the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced that on August 9, the fishery will close for four days. During that...

Sitkan indicted for possession of child sex abuse images

by KCAW Sitka | Aug 6, 2026

In late June, police arrested 46-year-old George John McIntyre after a months long investigation revealed he allegedly possessed child sexual abuse material on his cell phone. In early February, the phone messaging and photo app...