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KNBA News: Thursday, June 26, 2025

Anchorage Pel'meni employees Jonas Wild (left) and Jake Siira work out of a tent along West 5th Avenue outside the damaged restaurant on June 17, 2025.
Photo by James Oh, Alaska Public Media
Anchorage Pel'meni employees Jonas Wild (left) and Jake Siira work out of a tent along West 5th Avenue outside the damaged restaurant on June 17, 2025.

KNBA Top Stories:

· Family escapes Bear Creek Fire near Healy, but not without losses.

· Lyman Hoffman, Alaska’s longest serving senator, is stepping down.

· A downtown restaurant finds a way to keep serving Russian dumplings, after a pick-up truck crashed into its storefront.

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.