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KNBA News: Friday, April 14, 2023

KNBA Top Stories:

  •  Volcanic cloud cancels Alaska flights for the third day in a row. (Please note: story on noon news has been updated. The number of cancelled flights has grown to at least three dozen since this morning, which brings the total number of cancellations to over 90 for the past three days.)
  • Unruly passengers: A spike in the number of reports of bad behavior on flights within Alaska and while flying into the state.
  • How Hilcorp plans to address old pipelines and obsolete oil platforms.
  • Kent Kohlhase becomes permanent Anchorage Municipal Manager.
  • Yup’ik and Inupiaq spelling bee on Saturday.

We had help today from Alaska Public Media's Chris Clint and Casey Grove, KDLG's Izzy Ross, and KDLL's Sabine Poux.

Rhonda McBride has a long history of working in both television and radio in Alaska, going back to 1988, when she was news director at KYUK, the public radio and TV stations in Bethel, which broadcast in both the English and Yup’ik languages.