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KNBA News: Thursday, October 23, 2025

Marie Toolie pulls reindeer meat from her freezer in Savoonga on Sept. 23, 2025.
Alena Naiden
Marie Toolie pulls reindeer meat from her freezer in Savoonga on Sept. 23, 2025.

KNBA's Top Stories:

  • If the federal shutdown continues, SNAP food assistance benefits will end in November.
  • President Trump issues a disaster declaration for Alaska.
  • The Alaska Desk's Alena Naiden takes us to Savoonga for the opening of a plant to process reindeer meat.
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.