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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska legislators have so far pre-filed 68 bills and resolutions ahead of the January 17 session start date. Klawock police chief Terry Stonecipher died unexpectedly Monday morning.  And scientists say glaciers are melting faster than they thought. Photo: Sean Gallup

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska has a fully  fledged member of the U.S. House again. Ketchikan’s borough and school  district take cautious steps forward in resolving their dispute over  health care payments. And a Homer entrepreneur is making lumber from  plastic.  Photo: Sean McDermott/KBBI

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A dog walking duo in  Skagway has gained internet fame. Last year’s fire season is the largest  on record for Bristol Bay. And Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola says  it might be time to start thinking about a bipartisan solution to the  House Speaker impasse.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Last  month was the wettest December on record in Anchorage. A nationwide egg  shortage has hit Alaska especially hard.  And Rhonda McBride looks back  on Mary Peltola’s fight to be the first Alaska Native to serve in  Congress.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s job market will continue on a path of recovery this year, but  slower than other states. Mary Peltola waits to be sworn in while  Republicans struggle to elect a leader. And Anchorage is still hauling  snow, and has a long way to go. Rep. Mary Peltola was the only member of Congress wearing a kuspuk on  the first day of...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Work is underway on what will be Alaska’s tallest building. After months of back and forth over a high-profile oil and gas lease sale in Cook Inlet, just one company placed bids. Officials have arrested a Seward man after he allegedly drove his car, carrying three children, into the Seward boat harbor. A rendering of the new air traffic control towe...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Reexamination of a  cold case in Bethel has resulted in an arrest. Inflation is hitting  everyday Alaskans at the grocery store. And a new hazard map in Juneau  shows much of downtown in moderate to severe danger of landslides or  avalanches.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The coach  of the Homer High School girls wrestling team wants to talk about the  sport of women’s wrestling. Today is the fourth day of Kwanzaa. And an  Aleutian volcano will be renamed to honor Don Young.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Scientists  in Alaska will bounce a radio signal off an asteroid today. A project  combining solar energy production with food production will be studied  by scientists at University of Alaska Fairbanks. And an eight-bridge project over the Good River near Gustavus will help fish get upstream. The Good River, near Gustavus.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Stormy  conditions in the Lower 48 have disrupted holiday travel plans for many  Alaskans. An orphaned polar bear cub is receiving care at the Alaska  Zoo in Anchorage – where it may become a permanent resident. And a Native American movement is aiming to to expunge racist and sexist place names.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Beaches in Clam Gulch and Ninilchik will be closed to clammers for the ninth year in a row next summer. Bethel resident Becky Trimble is poised to become a permanent resident of the United States. And Metlakatla’s tribal government is asking residents to conserve power after a diesel generator failed.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Anchorage’s biggest emergency cold weather shelter now has bed capacity for up to 360 people. After some record-breaking cold temperatures in Southeast Alaska much of the panhandle is in for a wet Christmas. And an environmental group has filed a complaint seeking to halt use of federal wildlife restoration funds for predator control. Lucille Willia...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: People are waiting a really long time for food stamps and the state isn’t talking about it. Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes testified from jail  for the defense at a trial challenging the qualifications of Representative David Eastman to serve in the Alaska Legislature. Plus an aurora globe is being installed in a Fairbanks hotel.

On today’s Midday report with host Terry Haines: Discovery of an ancient  weir in Southeast has archaeologists rewriting the timeline there. Three major snowstorms in under two weeks have made travel tough in Anchorage. And the Anchorage School Board will decide today whether to increase class sizes to help close a $48 million budget deficit.

On today’s Midday report with host Terry Haines: Governor Mike Dunleavy has unveiled the first proposed budget of his second term. Controversy over a logging project near Yakutat in Southeast Alaska has intensified. And Alaska school districts have decried the continued flat funding of education in the Governor’s proposed budget. Aerial view of Yakutat site showing house pits (yellow), rock walls...

On today’s Midday report with host Terry Haines: The  Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is holding an Indigenous  language film fest in February. And a geothermal energy project in  Unalaska is taking another step forward in development.

On today’s Midday report with host Terry Haines: A muskox attacked and killed a man near Nome on Tuesday. Respiratory viruses have been threatening to overwhelm hospital capacity in Alaska this winter. And lieutenant governor Nancy Dahlstrom says she is up to the challenge of overseeing Alaska’s elections.

On today’s Midday report with host Terry Haines: Kindergarteners in Juneau have been learning the violin and an Alaska Native language at the same time. The Kenai Peninsula got nearly two feet of snow in some places this weekend. And a commercial building in Wasilla exploded Sunday afternoon, likely due to a natural gas leak.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Australian Christian  Turner is among the Iditarod dog mushers to sign up for the 2023 race.  Questions remain about how the planned merger of grocery store  companies Krogers and Albertsons  will affect shoppers in Alaska.  And  relatives mourn a man killed last month in front of his Anchorage home. Christian Turner in...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Federal safety  investigators are calling for new, more restrictive regulations on  flightseeing tours in the Ketchikan area after a series of crashes.  Alaska’s only National Heritage Area is pushing for a change. And GCI’s  underwater fiber optic broadband cable in Unalaska has been damaged. Photo: Laurelin Kruse

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: More than 40 Wrangell  residents are helping bring the musical “The Sound of Music” to the  stage this week. A young climate activist from Ketchikan was one of two  Alaskans named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list this year. The U.S. Senate  passed a bill to protect same sex marriage yesterday, with the support  of both Alaska s...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Terry is joined by Art  Schultz in a special Match Day Membership Drive edition of the Midday  Report.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A group of state  senators not only sliced up the turkey over Thanksgiving, but also carved-out Senate leadership roles. Residents  of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough will be getting a lot more power from  the sun next summer. And residents near Eielson Air Force Base are  skeptical of the chosen method to clean up PFAs there.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: More Alaskans have been voting against letting state judges keep their jobs.  A euthanized Alaska black bear cub is the first in the country to test  positive for a highly contagious strain of bird flu. And the Bureau of  Indian Affairs will give more than $45 million to US tribes  to address  climate change.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines:  A contentious  battle over books is playing out in Homer. More than a fifth of the high  school population reports having used e-cigarettes in the last month.  The Food Bank of Alaska has handed out about 10,000 free frozen turkeys  and holiday meal kits over the last few days in Anchorage and the  Mat-Su.