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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Sitka Assembly has invited a Kodiak-based company to run its new publicly-owned marine haulout – over the strenuous objections of many in the local fleet and marine services industry. State lawmakers are now more than halfway through their four-month legislative session, and time is ticking away. And U.S. House Republicans put the top execut...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A murder and subsequent wrongful conviction case in Fairbanks is finally coming to an end. The $44 billion Alaska LNG Project picked up a letter of intent last Thursday from Taiwan’s state-owned CPC Corporation. And for many tribes in rural areas, cuts by the Trump administration could make food security even tougher. Photo: The Fairbanks Four (...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: People living in the northern part of the state will have a chance to watch rockets soar through aurora-lit night skies for the next couple weeks. Friday was World Glacier Day. And the Alaska House of Representatives says it recognizes Canada’s right to govern itself and opposes efforts to restrict cross-border trade. Photo: A NASA technician wo...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The University of Alaska is rolling back its Diversity, Equity, and Incusion programs, in compliance with recent executive orders signed by President Donald Trump. A report that highlighted the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous people was removed from several federal websites last month. And President Trump’s cuts to the federal governme...

On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher says electric vehicles could benefit rural communities that are off the road system. A rockslide near Ketchikan has blocked the island’s main road. And Sen. Dan Sullivan enthusiastically embraced President Trump and many of his policies during his annual address to the Alaska Legislature. Photo: T...

On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Silver Bay Seafoods announced in a press release that it will take over all Alaskan facilities owned by OBI Seafoods, through a partnership with Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation. The National Transportation Safety Board report says the fatal Bering Air flight from Unalakleet to Nome was hundreds of pounds overweight. And lawmake...

On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Sen. Lisa Murkowski says President Trump is testing the limits of his power. The Nanook Diversity and Action Center closing and having its website taken down. And the BLM released a draft feasibility study for public comment last week that evaluates whether the proposed Alaska Long Trail would be a suitable National Scenic Trail. Sen. Lisa...

On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Employees fired last month from the agency that oversees federal fisheries in Alaska were reinstated Monday morning, but will not necesarily go back to work. Officials say residents across Southcentral Alaska should prepare for potential ashfall from Mt Spurr. And Sen. Murkowski continues to be one of the only Republicans in Congress willin...

On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Haines, Alaska, publicly supports Canada’s sovereignty. The powerful Senate Finance committee discussed long deferred maintenance at rural schools. And Alaska’s state development agency says it’s talking with the operator of the Ketchikan Shipyard to resolve a dispute that threatens the future of the yard.

On this today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has a new champion. Tanana Chiefs Conference full board of directors voted Thursday to rejoin the Alaska Federation of Natives. And former federal employees are applying for unemployment.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Trump administration is set to impose tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico. The Iditarod started in Fairbanks yesterday. KYUK’s Samantha Watson looks at the warming climate’s impact on the race trails themselves and what this means for the future of the on-snow sport. Photo: Rookie musher Bryce Mumford of Preston, Idaho, heads do...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Leaders in the Alaska House and Senate say they’re deeply concerned about the impacts of federal staff cuts and a forthcoming congressional immigration and tax cuts bill, and are imploring Alaska’s all-Republican federal delegation to halt possible reductions in Medicaid coverage. Photo: Demonstrators gather outside the Alaska State Capitol in J...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Interior Alaska residents are hustling to get ready for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race next week now that the competition is starting in Fairbanks. The board of Sitka’s industrial park is postponing a decision about placing the city’s new marine haulout under the management of Highmark Marine. And a longtime member of the Anchorage Filipino co...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The U.S. House Tuesday passed a spending blueprint that would extend tax cuts and almost certainly reduce Medicaid. Alaska Senate leaders are reviving options for raising revenue. And the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program has removed the phrase “Alaska Native” from its website. Photo: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline winds through the lands...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A group of protesters demonstrated against US Ukraine policy in Fairbanks on Monday. A new report paints a bleak picture of the impacts of frozen and cancelled federal funds in Alaska. And probationary federal workers based in Kotzebue joined thousands of other employees fired earlier this month by the Trump Administration. Photo: Protesters mar...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Influenza cases in Alaska are spiking, according to data from the state’s division of public health. Seward’s roughly 60-year-old cruise ship dock is on track to get a $140 million makeover. And farmers are in favor of a state Department of Agriculture. Photo: Concept drawing for the new cruise ship terminal in Seward. Photo Credit: The Seward C...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The University of Alaska System will no longer use or refer to “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” or other similar words. The wide-open sky and super-flat tundra expanses of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are great for snowkite skiing. And Alaska legislators are facing even larger deficits than they previously thought. Photo: Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Si...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Congressman Nick Begich III told the Alaska Legislature yesterday the state has become too dependent on federal spending. Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted against confirming Kash Patel as President Trump’s FBI director. Plus: are chicken coops the new gold mines? Photo: A fried egg. (Matthew Murdoch)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Sen. Lisa Murkowski introduced a bill yesterday that would keep the name Denali on North America’s highest peak. Lawmakers are looking closely at Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s plan to create a state Department of Agriculture. And funding to expand electric car charging capacity has been stalled, if not cancelled. Photo: Sen. Lisa Murkowski on the Senate...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A Fairbanks legislator wants the state to have an official dinosaur, and he has one in mind. A new report in Haines chronicles which parts of the mountainous borough might be prone to future landslides, but they may not want to officially adopt it. And four cats and two dogs were euthanized by the Sitka Police Department following a break-down o...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The U.S. Forest Service is warning Juneau residents to stay away from the face of the Mendenhall Glacier, where a large piece of ice may fall off at any moment. Lawmakers are turning to reforming the retirement system for state and local government employees. And Sen. Lisa Murkowski says Elon Musk and the President are overreaching their constit...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Bristol Bay Representative Bryce Edgmon was elected Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives last month, back in the role after a four-year break. President Trump has announced a partnership with Japan on the Alaska LNG project. And a fisher poet teams up with a percussive musician. Photo: Speaker of the House Edgmon talking to constituent...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Investigators are still determining what caused the Bering Air plane crash near Nome on Thursday that killed all 10 people on board. A lawsuit that clouded the future of homeschooling in Alaska for months last spring took on new life Thursday. And Bethel’s Pete Kaiser has won his 9th Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A look back at the effects of Limited Entry. A passenger aircraft is missing near Nome. And tough budget decisions are in store for Alaska legislators. Photo: Snow falls on the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau on Jan. 30, 2025. (Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: It looks like the Yukon Quest may be won as early as this afternoon. FBI agents in Anchorage helped in a nationwide immigration crackdown under President Trump last weekend. And more than 100 Juneauites took to the sidewalk to join a nationwide protest against President Donald Trump’s administration and its recent executive orders.