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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: It is election day. State prosecutors will not be bringing charges against an Anchorage police officer who shot and killed a teenager in August. And leaders from Anchorage and the state are exploring ways to make the city safer for pedestrians.

Photo: Cars drive by the intersection of 36th Avenue and Seward High on Sept. 16, 2024. The intersection is one of the most dangerous for pedestrians in Anchorage. (James Oh/Alaska Public Media)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

The Anchorage Police Department is delaying the release of the body camera footage of officers shooting and killing a 16-year-old. Alaska’s highest court ruled against the City of Soldotna on Friday in the city’s long standing annexation case. And vaccination rates in Alaska are among the lowest in the nation.

Photo: A syringe containing a vaccine for whooping cough in a waiting room at Alaska Family Care and Associates in Anchorage on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

Alaska’s winter ferry schedule starts October 1st and looks a lot like last year. Research is underway in Alaska that could expand the story of how the first humans arrived and traveled in the Americas. And rural Alaska schools are using grant funds to improve student lunches.

Photo: During the second year of the “Our Submerged Past” expedition, the team used the SUNFISH® autonomous underwater vehicle to explore submerged caves and rock shelters discovered during the first year of the project. (Image courtesy of Jill Heinerth, Stone Aerospace)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: All three members of Alaska’s congressional delegation voted for a short-term spending bill that will keep the government funded until Dec. 20. The Alaska U.S. Attorney’s Office is the subject of a Department of Justice investigation related to a federal judge’s sexual misconduct. And Wasilla’s only book store is hosting an event for Banned Books Week to combat censorship in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

Photo: The U.S. Capitol. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines:

Anchorage Assembly members are calling on state and local governments to take action to reduce the number of pedestrians killed by drivers. This week, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation will fly to almost two-dozen villages to deliver RSV immunizations. And fishing with magnets in Bethel.

Photo: Bethel students in the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program gather around a dirt bike pulled from Brown’s Slough in Bethel on Sept. 8, 2024. (Corinne Smith)

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.