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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.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Lack of funding may  cause Bethel to close its emergency shelter. Unalaskans welcome Aleutian  Airways’ first commercial flight. And Skagway’s borough assembly has  scrapped a plan to expand dock capacity, as questions remain about the  viability of the town’s largest dock.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A surveyor got stuck in  the mudflats near Girdwood yesterday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers  says they are moving forward with dredging Unalaska Bay. And the  U.S. Department of Agriculture is granting $3.6 million to Interior  Alaska villages to help improve water systems and landfills.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: State health officials are urging Alaskans to get flu vaccines and take other protective measures.  The city of Fairbanks is getting closer to demolishing the abandoned 11  story Polaris Hotel. And A totem pole that spent more than 100 years  far from home has returned to Haida village of Kasaan . Photo: The Polaris Hotel tower and an...

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Wrangell residents are  using their lunchtimes to learn the critically endangered Lingít   language. Why are Alaska’s gas prices so much higher than other states?  And Alaska lawmakers are urging the FTC to block a proposed merger  between grocery giants Kroger and Albertson’s. (Photo: Matthew Faubion / Alaska Public Media)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska lawmakers are  starting to think about picking teams. Candidates Palin and Tshibaka  cast aspersions on Alaska’s electoral system in the wake of  disappointing results. And a Palmer pilot died on Thursday, when his  small plane struck a cable and crashed into the Matanuska River.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Incumbent Governor Mike Dunleavy is very likely to win a second term. Craig needs a bigger cemetery. And the Sitka Assembly is moving forward with a long-planned seaplane project.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Local and statewide  preliminary election results are available. The Bureau of Land  Management is deciding what it should consider in a new environmental  review of the proposed Ambler Road. And does La Nina foretell a cool  Alaska winter?