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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Moderate candidates have a big fundraising advantage in state House and Senate races. Federal officials visited Unalaska to talk about energy options. And a basketball tournament covered by kid reporters. Photo: The Makushin Geothermal Project began building a corridor to the site of the proposed power plant in 2021. (Courtesy Of Ounalashka Corp./Ch...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Look for warmer, shorter winters in the future. A coalition of fishing groups and environmental organizations is pushing for restrictions on trawling. And a deeper look at a political ad. Photo: A factory pollock trawler.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Canadian mining company Panther Minerals is set to drill for deposits known to contain uranium on the Seward Peninsula. Another landslide in Ketchikan strands some residents. And Nome residents question the merit of designating Nome as a Strategic Seaport. Photo: The village of Elim, 30 miles from the site where uranium deposits are thought to be. B...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Opponents and supporters of the proposed Donlin gold mine meet local residents. The Anchorage Assembly has again balked at paying a settlement to the former municipal manager. And The Alaska Marine Highway is about to release its long range plan. Photo: Anchorage municipal manager Amy Demboski at the Oct. 27, 2021 Anchorage Assembly meeting. (Wesley...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Four people who died when a plane crashed near St. Mary’s last month faced faced conditions that caused another plane to turn back shortly before the accident. A look at bipartisanship in Alaska. And an effort will be made to at least partially restore the Eklutna River. Photo: A Cessna 207 operated by Yute Commuter Service is seen following a crash...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska had a record number of opioid overdose deaths last year. An Alaska man convicted of cyberstalking will get a new trial after revelations that the judge handling his case received nude photos from a government attorney involved in his prosecution. And here comes Fat Bear Week.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A man was killed Monday when the vehicle he was driving was struck by a double-trailer ore-hauling truck on the Richardson Highway. The Tustumena has canceled all of its sailings through Sunday so it can be repaired. And Ketchikan hosted a celebration last week to officially proclaim September 10th as Nettie Jones Day. Photo: Descendants of Irene an...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: It is election day. State prosecutors will not be bringing charges against an Anchorage police officer who shot and killed a teenager in August. And leaders from Anchorage and the state are exploring ways to make the city safer for pedestrians. Photo: Cars drive by the intersection of 36th Avenue and Seward High on Sept. 16, 2024. The intersection i...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Anchorage Police Department is delaying the release of the body camera footage of officers shooting and killing a 16-year-old. Alaska’s highest court ruled against the City of Soldotna on Friday in the city’s long standing annexation case. And vaccination rates in Alaska are among the lowest in the nation. Photo: A syringe containing a vaccine f...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s winter ferry schedule starts October 1st and looks a lot like last year. Research is underway in Alaska that could expand the story of how the first humans arrived and traveled in the Americas. And rural Alaska schools are using grant funds to improve student lunches. Photo: During the second year of the “Our Submerged Past” expedition, the...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: All three members of Alaska’s congressional delegation voted for a short-term spending bill that will keep the government funded until Dec. 20. The Alaska U.S. Attorney’s Office is the subject of a Department of Justice investigation related to a federal judge’s sexual misconduct. And Wasilla’s only book store is hosting an event for Banned Book...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Anchorage Assembly members are calling on state and local governments to take action to reduce the number of pedestrians killed by drivers. This week, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation will fly to almost two-dozen villages to deliver RSV immunizations. And fishing with magnets in Bethel. Photo: Bethel students in the Alaska Native Science a...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Three people were shot yesterday near an Anchorage park, including a police officer. And public safety departments are working to better handle police officers’ stress, after a recent change to state law. Photo: Anchorage police and other law enforcement officers responded to a suspect barricaded into a home on Monday.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: An Eielson Air Force Base contractor has excavated about a thousand tons of soil from a site in Salcha contaminated by more than 700 gallons of jet fuel. Mandatory wastewater upgrades are hitting coastal communities around Alaska. And a ride to Homer on the Tustumena. Photo: The Alaska Marine Highway ferry Tustumena. Theo Greenly/KSDP

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Anchorage School Board will consider a policy update next month that encourages patriotism in district schools. Sitka’s Community Land Trust has sold a cottage home at a price far below the market rate for housing in Sitka. And Anchorage will provide rooms for up to 500 homeless people this winter. Photo: Three of the 10 existing cottages in...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The U.S. Army has deployed soldiers to an air station on Shemya Island in the Aleutians, about 280 miles from Russia. The federal government has awarded money to the ferry system that will completely fund the replacement for the Tustumena. And the federal government plans to withhold nearly $17.5 million in grant funds after it says the state un...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The U.S. Coast Guard spotted four Russian Navy vessels on Sunday, off Point Hope on the North Slope. It’s the 200 year anniversary of the first Russian Orthodox Bishop of Alaska’s arrival in the state. Alaska’s U.S. senators split their votes on a bill that would provide federal protection and guarantee insurance coverage for in vitro fertilizat...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A years long hazardous waste disposal project is turning a corner at the Bethel Air Force Station. Four people are dead after a plane they were traveling in from Bethel crashed short of the runway in St. Mary’s. And Bartlett High School in Anchorage was on high alert after a threatening post circulated on social media. Photo: The village of St....

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska received $15 million in funding from the U.S. E.P.A. that they will use to expand composting. Tribes and Indigenous groups from across the country met in Anchorage this week for a national conference on climate. And a remote site in western Alaska may become the country's first new graphite mine...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Over $3 million dollars is headed to the Native Village of Kotzebue for a new solar farm. Landslide prone communities in Alaska are reassessing their level of risk. And the travel landscape changes once again for Aleutian communities. Photo: Travel options are more limited in the Aleutians now that regional airline Ravn Alaska has suspended serv...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: U.S. House candidates Nick Begich and Mary Peltola differ on abortion and reproductive health issues. Bethel’s Yup’ik language immersion school is in its own building for the first time. And a gathering in Homer last Saturday honored those who died from opioid overdose. Photo: Candidate Nick Begich and U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola listen to the modera...

On today's Midday report with host Terry Haines: A regional native organization is trying to raise awareness about dementia across the Aleutian Chain. The two officers who shot and killed a Juneau during a standoff earlier this summer will not face criminal charges. And the two Alaska State Troopers charged with assault after arresting the wrong person in Kenai pleaded not guilty in Kenai Dist...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A new study has identified high levels of mercury stored in permafrost along the Yukon River. Alaska librarians are cautiously optimistic that a state agency will restore a big cut in funding. And there could me a mental health upside to Sitka's extended internet outage. Photo: A 2022 drone image of the Yukon River and its floodplain downstr...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Alaska Democratic Party wants the Division of Elections to bar Eric Hafner from the ballot. Relatives of Cassandra Boskofsky want answers about how her disappearance was handled. And a bill addressing missing and murdered indigenous persons has been signed into law. Photo: Eric Hafner’s campaign announcement. (Jack Darrell/KRBD)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vetoed a bill that would have required car rental apps to collect state taxes. Anchorage’s hydropower czar says there are solutions that could satisfy all parties competing for the water that collects in Eklutna Lake. And libraries around the state are scrambling after learning a key state grant was being slashed. Photo: A...