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Alaska reaches a settlement with CVS for the role the company played in the state's opioid crisis. Plus, a Kenai Peninsula Borough School District custodial worker is nominated for a national award that recognizes outstanding K-12 educators.

Federal officials approve most of Alaska’s four-year statewide transportation improvement program. The Alaska legislature proposes efforts to alleviate a shortfall of Cook Inlet natural gas, and three Homer High School seniors qualify as National Merit Scholarship finalists. Plus, a small-budget movie being filmed on the Kenai Peninsula will hold auditions this week.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District refines a tentative budget with hopes of receiving a contribution from the borough assembly. Plus, an otter pup rescued in Seldovia has a new name, and a string of bear awareness and electric fencing safety workshops will be held around the peninsula.

A Homer-based nonprofit completes work protecting wetlands around the Cooper Landing Bypass project construction area. Plus, the Cooper Landing community asks the mayor to veto a concrete batch plant lease authorized in the community, and the Borough Assembly approves a project to test out heat pumps in rural schools.

Our guest is Bjorn Olson, an Alaskan filmmaker who's currently working on a documentary about climate change impacts on the Native Tribe of Diomede.

Scientists explore how fiber optic cables could be used to detect seismic activity in Cook Inlet. Plus, a rare white raven once spotted in Kenai takes up residence in an Anchorage neighborhood.

Almost 90 public comments on NOAA’s proposed plan for the Cook Inlet Exclusive Economic Zone show mixed reactions. And a bill being discussed in the legislature would tighten the residency requirements for in-state hunting licenses.

A man went into cardiac arrest during a Ninilchik vehicle collision. A Soldotna event brings a variety of resources to those who are homeless or struggling with housing insecurity on the Central Peninsula, and a controversial Girdwood housing project moves forward.

Our guests this week, tribal members Bernadine Atchison and Charmaine Lundy, spoke of their respective tribes' history, values and struggles.

Enstar warns lawmakers that imported natural gas won’t be available in Alaska soon enough to make up gas shortage gaps. A Kenai Peninsula man is the first documented fatal case of Alaskapox, and a local bazaar offers an opportunity for those who still need to get someone a valentine's day gift.