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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 Economic Club in Detroit, Michigan on Jan 13. (REUTERS)

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 dropped equipment to the stage below.

Photo: The Kuskokwim River is seen in this image captured by scientists working on NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, or ABoVE. (Peter Griffith/NASA)

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 fired up the old steam locomotive Nov. 8, 2025, for the first time since the 1950s. ( 557 Restoration Company)

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-dollar budget gap and our colleagues at KNBA breakdown the Coast Guard's rescue of nine people after a fishing vessel ran aground on St. George Island.

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 the Western Arctic Caribou Herd swim across the Kobuk River during fall 2011 migration in Kobuk Valley National Park. The herd, which peaked at 490,000 in 2003, is now down to a population of 121,000, according to the most recent census. (Photo by Kyle Joly/National Park Service)

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 conditions improve.

Photo: An operator scoops snow in downtown Juneau on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)

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.

Photo: This great egret was first spotted wading in Petersburg’s Blind Slough on Dec. 5. (Photo courtesy Matt Gerrits)

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: The Kink on North Fork Fortymile River. The federal government acknowledged that the North Fork's navigable and the submerged lands belong to the state of Alaska on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025.

(U.S. Geological Survey photo)

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 be approaching a "point of no return."

Photo: A brown bear at Fortress of the Bear tries to get into a “bear proof” trash can. (Courtesy of Rich McClear)