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KNBA News: Monday, April 6, 2026

Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend office in Juneau.
Skip Gray, KTOO
Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend office in Juneau.

KNBA Top Stories:

  • In the wake of high oil prices due to war in Iran, a house budget committee is pushing for a bigger Permanent Fund Dividend.
  • A look at how last week’s oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court invoked Native American history to challenge birthright citizenship.
  • State lawmakers debate whether Alaskans should continue to spring forward and then fall back for daylight savings.
  • Fairbanks is about to open a planetarium.
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.