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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Juneau Assembly voted Monday night to indefinitely table an ordinance that would have required nonprofits in Juneau to charge sales tax for goods and services. The Alaska Supreme Court is set to rule in a civil case that could reshape how state courts evaluate law enforcement officers’ use of force. And suicide death rates for older Alaskans...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Emergency responders battled a fire Monday at Whittier’s new cruise ship terminal that damaged at least one boat. Anchorage police on Sunday night shot and wounded a man in Midtown who they say assaulted an elderly man and stole his truck. Dogs from across the state made their way to Sitka over Labor Day Weekend. Photo: Multiple agencies respond...

On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, Senate and Congressional candidates will participate in the 2026 Alaska Fisheries Debate in Kodiak this weekend, Borough Assembly candidates discussed their positions at a candidate forum, the Sun'aq Tribe's leader was ousted last week, black bears invaded Juneau's dump this summer, scientists research chum salmon bycatch in Dutch...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The price of North Slope crude oil topped $100 per barrel on Wednesday. U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan and his leading challenger, Mary Peltola, vied to outdo each other as champions of Alaska fishermen at the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce fishery debate Saturday. And five seabirds collected near Nome between 2024 and 2025 have tested positive for a highly...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Researchers have shed new light on why powerful storms hit some communities harder than others across Western Alaska. More young people in Alaska died of suicide in 2025 than in any other year in the past decade. And Hilcorp employees say an oily sheen appeared in western Cook Inlet on Wednesday [9/9] while they were investigating a separate she...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The Mukluk Fire has burned over 50 homes plus over a hundred outbuildings and more than 7,000 acres. Joel Jackson, longtime Haida and Lingiìt advocate and president of the Organized Village of Kake, died in August. And sharing environmental data through music. Photo: Firefighters burn piles of wood near Tok on Aug. 29. (J. Hale/Alaska Complex In...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A group with national Republican ties alleges U.S. Senate challenger Dan J. Sullivan coordinated with the 907 Initiative, resulting in excessive campaign contributions. The Skagway ferry terminal is on track to reopen on Thursday, nearly a month after state ferry service to the popular tourist destination stopped abruptly in mid-August. The Alas...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Republican Treg Taylor is back in Alaska’s race for governor. Alaska’s criminal appeals court has thrown out an indictment of a Whittier woman born in American Samoa who state prosecutors accused of felony voter misconduct. And electric motorcycles under scrutiny in Juneau. Photo: Muddy mountain bikers gather at the grand opening of the Thunder...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Congressional candidate Bill Hill still believes he has a path to victory. Alaska’s chief investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board retired this week. And Juneau residents honored Dolly Parton's with a commemorative march last Friday. Photo: Bill Hill, an independent, will square off against Nick Begich in the General Electio...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: President Trump says he’ll make a campaign swing through Alaska, to help U.S. Sen Dan Sullivan. A Seattle startup is betting nuclear power could change how ships move through the Arctic. And could a catastrophic glacial collapse happen in Alaska? Photo: President Trump lauded one Alaska candidate named Dan Sullivan and disparaged the other while...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A Black Gold Transport ore-hauling truck wrecked Friday night after it hit a bison on the Alaska Highway. A breakdown of the Alaska primary results. And Juneau ponders flood taxes. Photo: A Black Gold Transport ore-hauling truck wrecked Friday night after it hit a bison on the Alaska Highway about 20 miles southeast of Delta Junction. (Delta Jun...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom says she won’t certify former state Attorney General Treg Taylor’s nomination for governor after a watchdog agency found the Republican candidate failed to comply with financial disclosure requirements. The Alaska Defense Forum met in Fairbanks last week. And Golden Valley Electric Association will purchase a 60-m...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Friday’s election results have triggered a chain of political maneuvers in the governor’s race, starting with Tom Begich’s decision to step down. Petersburg’s post office has seen very long lines and wait times in recent weeks. And a former Juneau principal pleaded no contest to an assault charge and was sentenced to 60 days in prison. Photo: De...

On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, Old Harbor hosts its first commercial cruise ship, and KMXT's Davis Hovey sits down with Alaska Senate District C candidates Carrie Harris, Heath Smith, and Louise Stutes.

In this week's episode with host Davis Hovey, a suspect was arrested in connection to a string of break-ins this week, a woman suffers non-lethal injuries after a bear attack, what to do about bears in the Kodiak Island Borough landfill, nine candidates file for open seats on the Borough Assembly, and Ouzinkie is installing a new solar array.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Eight people died Thursday after the charter plane they were flying in crashed on a remote cape in Southwest Alaska. Alaska authors say there's still hope for this year's Arctic Report Card, after the federal government pulls funding. And bumblebee scientists were in Unalaska this summer, addressing the lack of data about the island’s be...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska Public Media politics reporters Liz Ruskin and Eric Stone joined Alaska News Nightly host Casey Grove to break down the election results. Voters in Nunapitchuk had only three hours to cast primary ballots in person on Tuesday. And more than 150 firefighters are slowly making progress on the destructive Mukluk Fire in the eastern Interior...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska will have two candidates named Dan Sullivan on the November ballot for U.S. Senate, as well as Democrat Mary Peltola. Two Democrats and two Republicans are leading in early primary election results  in the race for governor. And several Alaska Native groups say the constitutional rights of rural voters are in jeopardy. Photo: Gubernatoria...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Residents of the eastern Interior community of Tok are being ordered to evacuate their homes after a wildfire broke out yesterday morning. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will go through a bidding process like the TV show “Shark Tank,” to select a partner to end Juneau’s glacial outburst floods. And the Alaska Marine Highway System announced th...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A landslide on Tuesday evening [8/11] blocked off the only route between Skagway and Whitehorse, Yukon. Alaska Public Media’s Eric Stone interviews Republican gubernatorial candidate Bernadette Wilson. And a Sitka bar is a gallery for an award winning artist. Photo: Stephen Lawrie points to his portrait of bartender Rita Ledbetter. (KCAW/Salemo)

On this week's episode with host Katherine Irving, Kodiak College announces its next director, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin stops in Kodiak, KMXT staff sit down with House District 5 candidate Kathy Simpler and gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker, shellfish around Kodiak test positive for toxins responsible for Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly fails to pass a...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone celebrated Thursday afternoon as the Mendenhall River crested at a level well below initial predictions. Pop-up political groups have spent more than $2 million to support fringe candidates and political unknowns in Alaska's U.S Senate race, some who’ve never lived in the state. Plus Kather...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Construction of the long-awaited and controversial road connecting King Cove to Cold Bay through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge is almost underway. As the Mendenhall River swells with glacial outburst flood water, hundreds of people spent Tuesday night and Wednesday preparing to evacuate or hunker down. Plus Alaska Public Media's Eric...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks, speaks on the floor of the Alaska House of Representatives during a joint session of the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau, Alaska. Photo: Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks, speaks on the floor of the Alaska House of Representatives during a joint session of the Alaska...

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Immigration attorneys put out a warning about the Arctic Thunder air show at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage this past weekend, where there was a separate check-in line for non-citizens. Independent U.S. House Candidate Bill Hill sat down with KFSK’s Taylor Heckart to talk about his policies and priorities. And an inflated sports fa...