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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Katmai National Park and Preserve’s Fat Bear Week is here. Anchorage has joined a legal effort to allow it to clear homeless camps. And the Homer harbor expansion project is slowed for lack of funding.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Shareholders for Alaska Native Corporation NANA overwhelmingly voted in favor of creating a Permanent Fund last week. Unalaska-based internet provider OptimERA is offering faster internet speeds to customers by using Starlink. And Hospital Board candidates in Petersburg weighed in on everything from the new hospital project to… the "New World Order."

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A statewide program makes home ownership possible through "sweat equity." The Anchorage Assembly heard testimony Friday from people it subpoenaed to discuss an election challenge filed earlier this year. And a project to re-establish wood bison in Alaska has suffered another setback.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A woman in Nome is using social media as a tool to teach the Inupiaq language. Students across the state logged on for the annual Teaching through Tech conference. And American Indians and Alaska Natives are vastly overrepresented in state prison systems.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Federal officials are looking into the deaths of nine orcas that were hauled up by groundfish trawlers in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Fat Bear Week kicks off this week with its junior bear competition. And a group of U.S. Forest Service personnel traveled to Kake late last month to help put on the annual Children’s Fishing Derby.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Senator Lisa Murkowski is not optimistic Congress can avoid a shutdown. Physician Assistants, or PAs, are not happy about how the state medical board is rewriting their regulations. And Golden Valley Electric Association and Westinghouse are teaming up on a power storage project near Healy.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Garage and estate sale season is still in full swing. Fatal crashes have been notably high on Kenai Peninsula highways this fall. And a lack of affordable housing continues to plague Alaska.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Affected communities look back on Typhoon Merbok after one year. The Center for Biological Diversity intends to sue the federal government over a new marine highway in Alaska. And a large part of the Denali Park Road is closed this week so scientists can collar bears.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: An event billed as the only Indigenous music festival in the country begins today in Juneau. The City of Nome is planning to build a demonstration home using a robot that prints concrete. And two bears climbed into a Krispy Kreme delivery van in Anchorage and ate the doughnuts.

Photo: Two bears getting into a doughnut truck in Anchorage. (Shelly Deano via AP)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: At least a dozen school districts across Alaska received bomb threats by email Tuesday. Repairs are complete to a severed fiber optic cable affecting internet and cellular services to much of Northern and Western Alaska. And the opioid overdose treatment Narcan became available over the counter in pharmacies throughout Alaska last week.