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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A thirty foot Unangax̂ open skin boat will be the first of its kind to touch water in over two centuries. The Chilkat River has been nominated by as one of ten most endangered rivers in the country. And the Alaska House approved an operating budget on Monday that includes a 2700-dollar Permanent Fund dividend. Photo by Stephanie McGeary: Kanesia McG...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: After some record-breaking winter snowfall, Alaska is now approaching the start of summer wildfire season. Two bills being considered by the legislature would allow school districts to opt into the state’s health care plan. And the world’s largest flying salmon took its final swim upstream today on Monday.

In today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A Superior Court judge in Bethel has dismissed a lawsuit accusing state officials of mismanaging Yukon River and Kuskokwim River salmon fisheries. Anchorage’s homelessness experts expect the number of people sleeping outdoors to swell from about 300 now to as many as 800 as the city’s three winter shelters close. And the Anchorage Assembly will main...

n today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The eruption of a volcano this week on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has prompted some Alaska flight cancellations. Denali National Park will be radio-collaring grizzly bears this spring. And an advisory board has endorsed placement of a book on relationships and sexuality within the Ketchikan Public Library’s teen section. Photo: Shiveluch, one of Ka...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Rep. Alyse Galvin has introduced a new bill to reimpose a state income tax, part of a broader proposal to address persistent state deficits. A labor department program to help immigrants gain employment in Alaska has been restarted, as hundreds of Ukrainian refugees are resettling here. And the City of Nome is working with retailers to limit alcohol...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Three Wasilla overdose deaths in less than 24 hours last week were likely due to counterfeit drugs containing fentanyl. In the small Prince of Wales Island town of Whale Pass a nearly 300-acre timber sale proceeds despite local opposition. And a 22 year old Russian Mission man faces over 100 years in prison after being convicted of murder, robbery,...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s panhandle may look unchanging, but the area is moving rapidly in a geologic sense. The Division of Forestry is cutting firebreaks in anticipation of fire season. Photo: A heavy masticator like this was among the pieces of heavy equipment used by state Forestry and a contractor to clear vegetation from the fuel break the agency cut in an are...

On today’s Midday Report with Terry Haines: Left-of-center candidates are leading in six out of seven Anchorage Assembly races. Anchorage Police officials say the timeline to put body cameras on officers has hit another delay. And a former Houston treasurer stole more than $1 million from the Mat-Su community and a Wasilla company where he later worked, according to federal prosecutors.

On today’s Midday Report with Terry Haines: The treeline is moving north. A federal judge has ruled that ConocoPhillips can move ahead with the Willow Project. And Representative Peltola shys away from stands on gun safety measures and former President Trump’s guilt. Photo: The East Fork Toklat River, where the white spruce are marching northward. Photo by Kirk Stueve  

This week on the Midday Report with host Terry Haines: There will be no sac roe herring fishery in Togiak this year. As Southeast Alaska otter populations have grown, so have calls to loosen the strict federal rules protecting them. And after losing half their population, humpback whales in Glacier Bay are rebounding.

This week on the Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A new article examines coastal communities that are losing land to erosion. The March for Respect is tomorrow. And Senator Sullivan speaks at Comfish. Photo: Erosion carries trees over the edge of a cliff and into the sea in Dillingham, Alaska, a coastal city about 350 miles west of Anchorage. Grist / Saima Sidik

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Ryan Redington has won the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The only Cook Inlet beluga whale in captivity is celebrating five years at his aquarium home. And Southeast weather nerds try to predict the future.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Two Aleutian volcanoes  are showing signs of unrest, signaling the potential for an eruption.  The University of Alaska Fairbanks rifle team won the NCAA championship  over the weekend. Plus Iditarod leaders are tightly bunched. Tanaga, in  November 2012. Photograph courtesy of Roger Clifford

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Kotzebue and the Northwest Arctic Borough have declared a disaster after a series of massive snow storms. The  Kenai Peninsula Borough School District  is considering cuts to pools  and theaters in the face of a large deficit. And a new brewery is  opening in Sterling. Photo: A Kotzebue home’s front is covered in snow on Tuesday,...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: School bus service in  the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District resumed Monday after a  month long bus strike ended. Brown bear baiting will not be allowed in  the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, after all. And the latest Iditarod  update! Photo: A brown bear cub looks for fish in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s  K...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A new bill introduced  in the state Senate last week aims to revamp the public retirement  system. The Iditarod trail sled dog race got underway this weekend. And an international meeting on arctic policy will host 13 countries for three days in Anchorage.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska Native leaders  stood with the state’s congressional delegation rallying for the Willow  project at the U.S. Capitol yesterday. The Army Corps of Engineers has  cleared another milestone in the Unalaska Bay dredging project. And the  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gearing up for a three-year  investigation into poten...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: U.S. Senator Dan  Sullivan says we should investigate the possibility COVID came from a  lab in China. The Fur Rondy snow sculpture competition wrapped up on  Sunday. And Alaska’s melting glaciers are causing glacier tourism to  melt away, too.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: U.S. Secretary of  Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough visited Alaska last week. The U.S. Army  is proposing to replace Fort Wainwright’s coal-fired heat and power  plant with natural-gas fired boilers installed around the post. And the  former head of Anchorage’s equal opportunity office is suing Mayor Dave  Bronson and his ad...

On today’s Midday Report with host Mike Wall: The Iron Dog snowmachine  race got underway this morning in Big Lake. The Anchorage School  District says it intends to completely end its practice of locking away  students with behavioral issues. And  the Mat-Su school bus strike seems  no closer to resolution.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Sitka Assembly will give $25,000 to support the Alaska Trollers Association’s legal defense fund. A Haines High School graduate spent four hours hiding from an active shooter on the Michigan State campus. And a new facility in Anchorage is designed to address the immediate needs of  the homeless, and connect them to housing and other servic...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: American scientists found 200,000 Pacific walrus on one Russian beach, they think. A Ketchikan podcaster is breaking down all things Filipino culture. And Alaska’s U.S. senators warn about shenanigans in the Willow project process.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: White House officials said Monday that they still had not come to any conclusions about what U.S. fighter  jets have shot out of the skies over the past 3 days. After a  months-long wait, thousands of Alaskans have received their food stamps,  but thousands more are still waiting. And snowfall in Anchorage  continues to break rec...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A student-run cafe in Igiugig offers refreshments to both community members and travelers flying across the vast expanse of Bristol Bay. Toyo stoves have been failing in cold weather. And the State Workers’ Union rallied for better staffing and benefits, and to support for Department of Public Assistance staff as they battle a backlog of food stamp...

This week on the Alaska Fisheries Report with Terry Haines: Kodiak’s  tanner crab fleet goes fishing, story by KMXT’s Kirsten Dobroth, KCAW’s  Robert Woolsey reports on the lawsuit that would halt king salmon  trolling, and Izzy Ross of KDLG tells of the governor’s vow to fight the  Pebble veto.