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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: President Trump has denounced U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and other Republicans who voted to check his use of military power in Venezuela. Avalanche risk rose over the weekend in Juneau as more snow and then rain pounded the capitol city. And natural gas use soared in Southcentral Alaska during the recent cold snap. Trump speaks at the Detroit Econ...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The United States Supreme Court has once again declined to take up challenges to a federal law that protects subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska. The City of Saxman is on a water conservation notice due to low water levels in the city’s holding tank. And the Homer High School theater is closed after an apparent theater rigging failure drop...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Democrat Mary Pelotola announced this morning that she’s running for U.S. Senate. The start of Alaska’s annual legislative session is just over a week away. And the last steam locomotive to pull trains on the Alaska Railroad is getting new life. Photo: Engine 557 sits on rails in front of its home shop in Wasilla. The 557 Restoration Company fir...

In this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, we hear about the Christmas bird count in Kodiak, how the federal government shutdown caused a hiccup in the Pacific cod quota for this year's fishery around Kodiak Island, the Tustumena's last scheduled visit to Kodiak before annual maintenance, the latest direction the KIBSD Board of Education is considering to fill its multi-million-doll...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s U.S. senators split yesterday on legislation requiring President Trump to get the approval of Congress before taking new military action in Venezuela. Several caribou herds in Alaska’s Arctic are on the decline. And the Bogus Creek 150 sled dog race has been postponed due to extreme cold weather conditions. Photo: Two bull caribou of th...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A winter storm earlier this week dropped a record-breaking amount of snow on Anchorage. Homer residents gathered downtown at WKFL Park on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol five years ago. And avalanche professionals are now warning residents of Southeast Alaska to stay out of risky terrain until conditio...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: President Trump is trying to convince oil companies to invest billions of dollars in Venezuela’s oil industry. What will it mean for Alaska? Anchorage is revamping its climate action plan. And Pelican finally got provisions, after a month of isolation. Photo: Pelican, Alaska (Wikipedia)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The City and Borough of Juneau has issued an avalanche alert, telling residents in the Mount Juneau slide path to be prepared. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski struck a note of skepticism in her reaction to Saturday’s military operation ousting Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro. And great Egrets landed in Unalaska for the first time in recorded history....

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The federal government gave up its claim to ownership of the North Fork of the Fortymile River in Alaska’s eastern Interior. Juneau residents are still digging out from four feet of snow that fell earlier this week. Flu cases are spiking in Alaska, and at least three Alaskans have died from complications of influenza so far this season. Photo: T...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Many Bristol Bay residents came out in opposition to the University of Alaska Fairbanks’s intention to sell one of two buildings at its Bristol Bay Campus. The Sitka Assembly is looking to address an ongoing problem in Sitka: bears breaking into trash cans. But how the body will go about it is still up in the air. And an Alaska caribou herd may...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: This is the longest period of time Pelican has been without seaplane access. The city of Juneau issued an alert that avalanche conditions are elevated in the areas above Behrends Avenue and Thane Road. And communities on Prince of Wales Island are facing complications with their city water supplies in the aftermath of this month's snowstorms...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska scientists shared concerns about federal funding cuts hurting Arctic research at a major conference in New Orleans this month. A winter storm dumped more than two feet of snow and freezing rain on the capital city this holiday weekend. And Matanuska-Susitna Borough residents were blasted by hurricane-force winds over the weekend. Photo: S...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The federal military spending law signed passed last week includes special benefits those serving in Alaska, hundreds of millions in new construction in the state, and a push to reactivate the US Navy base at Adak. Skeptics continue to question the economics of the proposed gas pipeline. And the United States may soon have an Arctic ambassador a...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Matanuska-Susitna Borough must repay nearly $6 million to the federal government for the defunct Knik Arm ferry project. Advocates say an Anchorage-based permanent supportive housing program has proven its effectiveness after five years in operation. And celebrations around the state! Photo: The M/V Susitna docked in Ketchikan. Photo courtes...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The next legislative session is less than a month away, and lawmakers are preparing to return to Juneau. An Utqiaġvik woman has been charged with six felony charges for allegedly murdering her father. And tourism is expected to tick upward this winter.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A federal grand jury has indicted two Alaska State Troopers shown on body-camera video beating, tasing and pepper-spraying a Kenai man in a case of mistaken identity. Representatives of the proposed Donlin Gold mine recently offered a status update on the project to the Bethel City Council. And Kodiak couple faces possible deportation due to err...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The window for Alaska Native veterans to apply for their Native allotments will stay open for another five years. Gov. Mike Dunleavy is eyeing a property tax break for the long-planned Alaska LNG project. And dancing and drumming, essential to Siberian Yupik culture, continue to be passed down by ancestors. Photo: Yup'ik dancer from Inu-Yupi...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Fairbanks police are looking for a suspect who allegedly shot and wounded a person Monday night at a Fairbanks Safeway store. Local showings for a documentary about Petersburg doubled as a fundraising opportunity for the community’s struggling nonprofit movie theater. And Tribes in Southeast have banded together. Photo: Community members watch a...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Troopers are still looking for a Toksook Bay man who allegedly kidnapped and fired multiple shots at a tribal police officer in the Nelson Island community. The latest federal report on the Arctic shows the region is still rapidly warming. And the state of Alaska is considering a new ferry terminal that would connect Alaska’s ferries to the Lowe...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Gov. Mike Dunleavy is dropping a longtime priority ahead of next year’s legislative session. Sen. Sullivan voted with Democrats on a failed bill to extend health care subsidies. And FEMA will reimburse the state for costs of housing the victims of typhoon Halong. Photo: Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks direct-to-camera in a video published Dec. 11, 202...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Federal funding for libraries and museums has been reinstated nine months after the Trump administration sought to eliminate the agency that provides the money. The Western Arctic Caribou Herd is now at its lowest numbers in five decades. And the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has landed on a solution to put an end to glacial outburst floods in Ju...

This week we hear about tips for feeling better during winter blues from Alaska Public Media, Kodiak gets hit with about a foot of snow, 2020 Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod fishery disaster funds are being distributed to those who were impacted including the city of Kodiak, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council sets the Bering Sea pollock quota and Gulf of Alaska ground fish quotas for next yea...

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: State and federal law enforcement officers on Wednesday captured a North Pole man wanted for the fatal shooting of a teenager near Fairbanks. A magnitude 7 earthquake shook Juneau and other towns in Alaska’s northern and central panhandle late Saturday morning. And the state launched a new telehealth service for Alaskans with intellectual and de...

In this week's recap with Host Brian Venua, the City of Kodiak has a new manager, an entangled humpback died near the island, Port Lions got a special delivery of salmon fillets, Kodiak residents are trying to grow fruit trees, a Kodiak farm is providing some of its milk to local families, and the Chamber of Commerce is bringing a home show back to the island after an over 30 year hiatus. KMXT...

In today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she was deeply troubled by a report that the military launched a second strike to kill survivors of a suspected drug boat. A federal lab devoted to renewable energy development for a half century has had the word “renewable” stripped from its name. And a federal heating assistance program used by thousands of Alaska...