On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

Three people were shot yesterday near an Anchorage park, including a police officer. And public safety departments are working to better handle police officers’ stress, after a recent change to state law.

Photo: Anchorage police and other law enforcement officers responded to a suspect barricaded into a home on Monday.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

An Eielson Air Force Base contractor has excavated about a thousand tons of soil from a site in Salcha contaminated by more than 700 gallons of jet fuel. Mandatory wastewater upgrades are hitting coastal communities around Alaska. And a ride to Homer on the Tustumena.

Photo: The Alaska Marine Highway ferry Tustumena. Theo Greenly/KSDP

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

The Anchorage School Board will consider a policy update next month that encourages patriotism in district schools. Sitka’s Community Land Trust has sold a cottage home at a price far below the market rate for housing in Sitka. And Anchorage will provide rooms for up to 500 homeless people this winter.

Photo: Three of the 10 existing cottages in the S’us’ Héeni Sháak Community. When complete in 2027, there will be 14 homes in the neighborhood, and six apartments.

(KCAW/Woolsey)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

The U.S. Army has deployed soldiers to an air station on Shemya Island in the Aleutians, about 280 miles from Russia. The federal government has awarded money to the ferry system that will completely fund the replacement for the Tustumena. And the federal government plans to withhold nearly $17.5 million in grant funds after it says the state underfunded some Alaska school districts.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

The U.S. Coast Guard spotted four Russian Navy vessels on Sunday, off Point Hope on the North Slope. It’s the 200 year anniversary of the first Russian Orthodox Bishop of Alaska’s arrival in the state. Alaska’s U.S. senators split their votes on a bill that would provide federal protection and guarantee insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

A years long hazardous waste disposal project is turning a corner at the Bethel Air Force Station. Four people are dead after a plane they were traveling in from Bethel crashed short of the runway in St. Mary’s. And Bartlett High School in Anchorage was on high alert after a threatening post circulated on social media.

Photo: The village of St. Mary's on the Andreafsky River in Southwest Alaska. Ryan McPherson/Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service via AP.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

The Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska received $15 million in funding from the U.S. E.P.A. that they will use to expand composting. Tribes and Indigenous groups from across the country met in Anchorage this week for a national conference on climate. And a remote site in western Alaska may become the country's first new graphite mine since the 1950's.

Photo: A chunk of rock containing graphite picked up from the surface of the Graphite Creek site. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

Over $3 million dollars is headed to the Native Village of Kotzebue for a new solar farm. Landslide prone communities in Alaska are reassessing their level of risk. And the travel landscape changes once again for Aleutian communities.

Photo: Travel options are more limited in the Aleutians now that regional airline Ravn Alaska has suspended service there. (Theo Greenly/KUCB)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

U.S. House candidates Nick Begich and Mary Peltola differ on abortion and reproductive health issues. Bethel’s Yup’ik language immersion school is in its own building for the first time. And a gathering in Homer last Saturday honored those who died from opioid overdose.

Photo: Candidate Nick Begich and U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola listen to the moderator at a 2022 debate in Kodiak. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

On today's Midday report with host Terry Haines: A regional native organization is trying to raise awareness about dementia across the Aleutian Chain. The two officers who shot and killed a Juneau during a standoff earlier this summer will not face criminal charges. And the two Alaska State Troopers charged with assault after arresting the wrong person in Kenai pleaded not guilty in Kenai District Court.

Photo: Police and other emergency officials treat Steven Kissack after he was shot on Front Street in Juneau. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)