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Stephanie Wonchala, Artistic Director for Pulse Dance Company drops by the studio this week to let us know what's happening with the company and also what's coming up next season.KSKA: Friday, July 24. at 2:45 p.m.Download Audio:

Young Votes Yes, Meant No, On Bill Gutting GMO Labeling Laws; 2nd Murkowski Energy Bill Has Controversies Lacking in 1st; Gov. Walker Travels to Pentagon to Make Case for Alaska Troops; 5 Fires Threaten Tanana On the Yukon; Anchorage To 'Revisit' Knik Arm Bridge; Suspect Arrested for Threatening Calls To Arizona Schools, Which Were Similar to Alaska's; 4 Charged with Theft of Oysters from Kachemak Bay Farm; With Ever-Changing Restrictions, 2015 Marks a Summer of Flexibility on the Kuskokwim; Pains of Trooper Cuts Felt At Small Community Jails; Haines Climbers Likely First Women to Summit Cathedral PeaksDownload Audio

Subsistence fishing is open indefinitely on the Kuskokwim River. But that hasn’t been the norm this summer, as the river underwent two management regimes —state and federal—and strict closures for two species. Lower river fishermen are adjusting to the new reality of Kuskokwim subsistence—where conservative management is now the status quo.Download Audio

Budget cuts to state troopers are taking place all over Alaska. But in small Southeast communities, like Petersburg, it’s a double whammy. That’s because community jails are also taking a hit. And the two are inextricably linked.Download Audio

Haines residents Jenn Walsh and Jessica Kayser Forster are likely the first women to summit the 6,400-foot Mount Emmerich in the Chilkat Valley, also known as Cathedral Peaks.Download Audio

Two remote Alaska lodges have been given an international nod with a listing from National Geographic as some of the most unique in the world.

Interior Dept. OKs Arctic Drilling—With Limits; Murkowski Unveils Her National Energy Policy Bill; Southeast Village Brings Its Subsistence Designation Battle To Capitol Hill; Murkowski Balks At Proposed Funding Source for Highway Plan; Dozens Testify Against Megaprojects In Anchorage; AMHS Looks To Dwindling Coffers As Southeast Leaders Plea for Restored Ferry Service; Chum Salmon Flood Western Alaska Waters As Buyers Struggle to Keep Up; As Chinook Cross Into Canada, Fall Chum Begin Running on the Yukon; BC Withholds Key Permit from Transboundary MineDownload Audio

Sen. Lisa Murkowski today released a national energy policy bill. It’s been one of her highest priorities as chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, and she produced the bill jointly with the top Democrat on the committee, Maria Cantwell of Washington. Murkowski says it required compromise; the bill doesn’t include some of the big items on Murkowski’s energy agenda.Download Audio

The deadline for renewing the nation’s highway programs is nine days away. Leaders in the Senate this week negotiated a bill that would fund highways for the next six years. But it would require selling off $9 billion of crude oil that’s stashed in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.Download Audio

The chinook have reached Canada, and Alaska Fish and Game biologists say they’ve now met nearly all escapement goals along the Yukon and are confident they’ll see enough of the prized king salmon cross the border.Download Audio