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On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:

Alaska students posted some of the lowest scores in the country in national reading and math test results. State regulators have fined proponents of the 2024 ranked choice repeal ballot measure nearly $157,000 for what officials called “egregious and widespread” violations of campaign finance laws. And the Kenaitze Indian Tribe recently held a traditional medicine workshop about the wildflower yarrow.

Photo: Achillea millefolium, also known as common yarrow. (SAplants)

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:

Renewable energy projects across the country are in limbo after the Trump administration placed a 90-day hold on funding. The Sitka Assembly will invite a Kodiak-based company to bid on the operation of a new, publicly-funded marine haulout. And seven school districts in rural Alaska are trying something new to help revamp education.

Photo: A solar array in Kotzebue.

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:

Chaos reigns as the on-again, off-again federal spending freeze poses more questions than answers. The Governor gives himself high marks in the State of the State speech. And an expensive fighter jet crashes at Eielson Air Force Base.

Photo: President Trump is seen here after signing a range of executive orders on Jan. 23. (Anna Moneymaker.)

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:

The City of Delta Junction’s only ambulance service, Delta Medical Transport, announced it would dissolve earlier this month. The Alaska House of Representatives has offered a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s move to rename Denali as Mount McKinley. And residents of the Kenai Borough could lose their emergency flood insurance.

Photo: Mount Denali. (Denali National Park and Preserve)

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:

he Alaska Legislature is getting to work on a bill that would boost state funding for public schools by more than $460 million. At least three districts across the state are considering closing at least one school. And the icebreaker Aiviq is the Coast Guard’s newest vessel, despite a history of design problems and failure.

Photo: The Aiviq (blue hull) escorts the tugs Corbin Foss, Ocean Wave and Lauren Foss as they tow the conical drilling unit Kulluk from Kiliuda Bay near Kodiak Island, Alaska, Feb. 26, 2013. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis)

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:
Anchorage saw nearly three dozen homicides last year, coming close to its modern record. Over $130 million in grants for clean energy projects in rural Alaska are now frozen after President Trump signed an executive order. And the Eklutna Tribe has a mini casino up and running.

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:

The Alaska Board of Education and Early Development released a draft statewide cell phone policy for students. Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday praised a series of executive orders President Donald Trump issued shortly after taking office. And powerful winter storm systems are set to impact most of western, northern and interior Alaska from Thursday evening through the weekend.

Photo: President Donald Trump signs an executive order at the White House supporting natural resource development in Alaska on Monday, Jan. 21, 2025 in Washington. (CSPAN)

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:

State lawmakers convened in Juneau yesterday to kick off the first session of the 34th Alaska Legislature. President Trump is in favor of a gas pipeline in Alaska, but state lawmakers remain skeptical. And a mini-protest in Soldotna.

The proposed route for an Alaska natural gas pipeline.

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:

On his first day back in office, President Trump yesterday signed an executive order that aims to undo most of his predecessor’s work on Alaska energy and environmental issues. Juneau is mulling another cruise ship dock. And the state wants to offer geothermal lease sales for Augustine volcano.

Photo: Augustine volcano.

On today's Midday Report with Host Terry Haines:

State lawmakers are calling on Gov. Mike Dunleavy to release the results of a million-dollar study on how competitive the state’s salaries are. Sitka is moving ahead with allowing a Kodiak-based company to bid on the operation of a new, publicly-funded marine haulout. And another subsea cable break has taken out internet across northern and western Alaska.

Photo: Highmark Marine could run Sitka's Boatyard.