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In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Anchorage city leaders voted Friday to extend an emergency declaration as the city welcomes hundreds of people displaced by heavy flooding in Western Alaska. Gov. Mike Dunleavy visited two Western Alaska villages to assess the damage left by high winds and flooding. Dozens of attendees at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention stood in prot...

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The theme of unity has been prominent at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention. A massive airlift is underway in Western Alaska, bringing evacuees of last week's storm to Anchorage. And Adak is without power. Photo: Adak Alaska. Aleut Adventures.

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A mass evacuation is underway for Kipnuk and Kwigillingock, where a thousand people were sheltering in schools after Sunday’s huge storm. Local officials are continuing to search for two people missing from Kwigillingock. And the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention has started in Anchorage. Photo: This dance group from Point Hope was one of...

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: More than a thousand people in Western Alaska are sleeping in their local schools after a massive storm Sunday made their homes unlivable. The Elders and Youth Conference is underway. And Nome celebrates Indigenous Peoples day. Photo: Residents and their dogs in Kipnuk navigate high waters on Oct. 12, 2025, as the remnants of Typhoon Halong coll...

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: One person has died, two are still missing, and 51 have been rescued following a record-breaking storm that slammed into the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The Sitka Police Department has body cameras to equip its officers in its possession, but doesn’t yet have the funding to implement them. And health officials in Bristol Bay say the region is in the...

On this week's episode, we hear about a house fire on Carolyn St., two foreclosed properties that will be auctioned off by the Kodiak Island Borough in the near future, how federal grant cuts affect University of Alaska campuses like Kodiak College, a recap of Koniag's annual meeting, and unofficial election results from Kodiak's municipal election.

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Researchers have awakened microbes that were last active as far back as 40,000 years ago. Flood waters have receded in Kotzebue and other western Alaska communities from a storm that hit earlier this week, but another one is coming. And the Alaska Board of Education sent a proposed regulation change that would have limited how much money local g...

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The K-12 school on the Aleutian Island of Akutan now has two local Unangax̂ teachers. Governor Mike Dunleavy has issued a disaster declaration for communities in western Alaska hit by a powerful storm. And former Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum is defending his decision to invest $50 million from the state’s rainy-day account in an outside privat...

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Funding for a program subsidizing rural air travel is set to continue through early November despite the ongoing government shutdown. The city of Kotzebue is under mandatory evacuation orders. And Alaska's growing birch syrup industry. Photo: Roads near Kotzebue’s dock were flooded Wednesday afternoon.

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The state of Alaska is studying the possibility of building a road that would connect Juneau, Haines and Skagway. Indigenous peoples in the Arctic are reimagining the future of ice cellars. And a Washington state jury awarded nearly $17 million to the family of a man who died in a 2019 airplane crash on Unalaska’s runway. Photo: A functioning ic...

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: It s been six years since Alaska State Troopers updated their list of cold case homicides. Communities across Southeast Alaska are tweaking their tax policies to rake in tourist dollars during the summer months. And President Trump yesterday approved the 211-mile Ambler road in Northwest Alaska. Photo: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum points to a m...

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: Former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson is joining the race for governor. Juneau voters will decide in this fall’s municipal election whether to exempt essential food and residential utilities from local sales tax. And the PFD doesn't buy what is used to. Photo: Former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson speaks at a campaign launch event at the Sullivan...

On this week's episode, we hear about a NOAA report on entangled whales in 2024, an update on the St. Herman Harbor replacement project timeline and funds, Kodiak's main park has a new Alutiiq name, Election day in Kodiak is Oct. 7 for municipal elections, and Alaska Public Media tells us about the federal government shutdown that happened after end of day Sept. 30.

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: Former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson is joining the race for governor. Bethel residents gathered on Wednesday to highlight Domestic Violence Awareness Month. And Juneau’s elementary schools have a library again after three years. Photo: The Tundra Women's Coalition demonstrates against domestic violence. (Marycait Dolan KYUK)

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: Congress defunded public broadcasting, but this week, 14 public media stations in Alaska got some good news. A Pennsylvania man allegedly used the stolen identities of seven Alaskans in an attempt to steal their Permanent Fund Dividends in 2022. And Tuesday was Orange Shirt Day — a day of remembrance for Indigenous children who were separated fro...

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: Most of the staff running three Alaska newspapers in Homer, Kenai-Soldotna and Juneau resigned in protest yesterday. A Wasilla couple has been charged in connection with the death of a child that was in their care. And the Juneau Police Department is taking action to reform its policies after an officer was filmed slamming a man to the ground dur...

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: The Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center is so far spared from closures coming to a third of these climate science centers across the country. Another glacial outburst flood is underway on the Taku River south of Juneau today. And the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $16.7 million dollar grant to begin construction of the fir...

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game may allow Jet Skis, in Kachemak Bay. A Homer Republican state representative is declaring victory after pressuring the local newspaper to revise a story about a vigil honoring Charlie Kirk. And Alaska State Troopers shot and killed a man near Anchor Point on Thursda...

In this week's episode, we hear about early voting opening in Kodiak, a borough assembly member resigned, hydroponics in Ouzinkie, and the White House increased the price of H1B teachers — the one many schools use to hire teachers from abroad.

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, dispatched U.S. aircraft Thursday to intercept four Russian military planes off Alaska. The Northwest Arctic community of Selawik hasn’t had consistent drinking water for over three weeks. And people from around the world are voting for their favorite to be the chubby champion of Fat Bear We...

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: The Alaska LNG Project netted two more agreements earlier this month during an energy conference in Italy. The only year-round medical clinic in the small Interior community of Healy announced last week (9/17) that it will soon close its doors. And St. Paul has lost its major air carrier. Photo: The Interior Community Health Center clinic in Fair...

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: University of Alaska Southeast staff and nursing students gathered at the Ketchikan campus to celebrate the new nursing lab. One family in Juneau is trying to raise a million dollars for a lifesaving treatment for their child. And researchers have been recording the mysterious “thrumming” sounds of humpback whales. Photo: A single-patient room in...

In today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey: Democrats and independents in the Alaska state Legislature are urging Congress to preserve federal funding for science and research. A project to map out the Pacific Northwest’s critical mineral potential Was frozen and put under review in February. And the U.S. Coast Guard is proposing a new two-way shipping route along the northern Alaska coast...

In today's Midday Report with host Brian Venua: This year’s Permanent Fund Dividend will be exactly $1,000. Payments to more than 600,000 Alaskans are set to begin Oct. 2. The U.S. Senate rejected two partisan spending bills on Friday, bringing the country closer to a partial government shutdown on October 1st. And Senator Sullivan and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer were in Fairbanks Frid...

In today's Midday Report with host Davis Hovey: Lawyers are trading arguments in a case challenging the state’s failure to process applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on time. Heat pumps are growing in popularity across the country, including in parts of Alaska. And a group in Unalakleet is bringing traditional dance back to life — after more than a century without i...