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On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: An updated version of the Bunny Boot is about to hit the market. A recent report documents extensive community health risks from plastics in the Arctic region. And Fairbanks North Star Borough residents are highly energy burdened, according to a recent study.

Photo: Bunny Boots. (Alaska Gear Company)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A working group in Petersburg hopes information from newly-installed weather stations can eventually be used to build a landslide warning system. A project to map permafrost thaw and erosion could help communities adapt. And the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska held its 27th annual culture camp for a week at the end of July.

Photo: The Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska held their 26th annual Camp Qungaayux̂ earlier this month.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A scientist explains why landslides are so unpredictable. Starlink has revolutionized communication in rural Alaska. And the Tribal Association in Bethel has sued to stop the Donlin Mine.

Photo: Justin Andrew and Gregory Larson work examining and classifying core samples at the Donlin Mine on Aug. 11, 2022. The hill outside the building holds the gold deposit that would be mined if Donlin goes into production. The mine is controversial, and opponents have filed legal challenges to key state permits and authorizations for the project. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Teams of scientists, engineers and meteorologists continue their work assessing the steep hillside in Ketchikan following Sunday's fatal landslide. United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland has finalized a decision to maintain protections for “D-1” lands. And Petersburg’s Little Norway Festival was marshaled in by a horde of vikings and valkyries.

Photo: Brandi Thynes leads the youngest Norwegian dancers during their last practice at Petersburg’s Fishermen’s Memorial, outside of the Son’s of Norway Hall on May 10, 2024. (Photo: Hannah Flor/KFSK)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Ketchikan residents describe a chaotic scene after a landslide ripped through a residential neighborhood. Weather observations at Denali have been taken for one hundred years. And Unalaska is now officially Tsunami ready.

Photo: The scene of the landslide in Ketchikan, Alaska. Credit...Travis Watkins/Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A trial is set to begin today in a fight over whether the parent companies of two Alaska grocery chains can merge. Emergency crews are responding to a large landslide that killed one person and destroyed several houses in Ketchikan yesterday. And the siblings of a man who was shot and killed by law enforcement in Juneau last month say they’re still waiting for answers.

Photo: Houses on Second Avenue destroyed by the landslide. August 25, 2024. (Jack Darrell/KRBD)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The union that represents Alaska’s public safety employees is criticizing comments made by the Department of Public Safety commissioner about two Soldotna-based troopers. Senator Murkowski cut the ribbon on a new cabin in the Tongass. And the license plate bill to end all license plate bills.

Photo: Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner James Cockrell speaks to reporters about assault charges brought against two state troopers during a press conference on Thursday, August 15, 2024 in Anchorage, Alaska. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Parents in Nikiski want their kids to be able to ride ATVs to school. Kobuk is flooded. And Experts in psychedelics and psychedelic medicine are convening in Anchorage this week.

Photo: Presenters will discuss Indigenous Arctic ceremonial traditions using Amanita Muscaria at the Anchorage conference. These mushrooms are poisonous without proper ceremonial processing. (Rachel Cassandra/Alaska Public Media)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s Congressional delegation is calling for action to pause transboundary mining in Canada upstream of Southeast Alaska rivers. Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola has a wide lead in Alaska’s nonpartisan primary for U.S. House, followed by Republican challenger Nick Begich III. And Nikiski will be the site of the state’s largest solar farm...someday.

Photo; The Stikine River Flats area in the Tongass National Forest is viewed from a helicopter on July 19, 2021. The Stikine River is one of the major transboundary rivers impacted by mines in British Columbia. (Photo by Alicia Stearns/U.S. Forest Service)

On today's Midday Report with host Terry Haines: It is Primary Election Day today. A series of large storms have left some Western Alaska communities grappling with flooding and erosion. And Wood Bison are being introduced to the Minto Flats State Game Refuge west of Fairbanks.

Photo: Severe flooding is seen in the coastal community of Kwigillingok on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (Courtesy Lewis Martin)