On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: State health officials are urging Alaskans to get flu vaccines and take other protective measures.  The city of Fairbanks is getting closer to demolishing the abandoned 11  story Polaris Hotel. And A totem pole that spent more than 100 years  far from home has returned to Haida village of Kasaan.

Photo: The Polaris Hotel tower and annex. (Dan Bross/KUAC)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Wrangell residents are  using their lunchtimes to learn the critically endangered Lingít   language. Why are Alaska’s gas prices so much higher than other states?  And Alaska lawmakers are urging the FTC to block a proposed merger  between grocery giants Kroger and Albertson’s.

(Photo: Matthew Faubion / Alaska Public Media)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska lawmakers are  starting to think about picking teams. Candidates Palin and Tshibaka  cast aspersions on Alaska’s electoral system in the wake of  disappointing results. And a Palmer pilot died on Thursday, when his  small plane struck a cable and crashed into the Matanuska River.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Incumbent Governor Mike Dunleavy is very likely to win a second term. Craig needs a bigger cemetery. And the Sitka Assembly is moving forward with a long-planned seaplane project.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Local and statewide  preliminary election results are available. The Bureau of Land  Management is deciding what it should consider in a new environmental  review of the proposed Ambler Road. And does La Nina foretell a cool  Alaska winter?

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The  village corporation in Yakutat has been ordered by the state to change  the way it runs shareholder elections. St. Paul in the Pribilofs is  issuing a unique disaster/emergency declaration in light of snow crab  and red king closures. And Mike Motti, a veteran of Sitka’s Mountain  Rescue team, has died during a solo hike.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A landslide near  Petersburg on Halloween night was a close call for some nearby  residents. The director of the recently released movie “Till” studied  film at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. And trappers from Prince of Wales Island want more harvest opportunity in the upcoming wolf season.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines:  A game changing broadband project in Bethel and other communities in  the Y-K Delta has a new name. Anchorage Unangax̂ Dancers debuted a song  at AFN that welcomes ancestors. And this election features a concerted  effort to encourage Alaska Natives to participate.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska farmers and  ranchers make tough choices as costs rise and yields fall. An Alaska  wanderer has been declared missing. And Gubernatorial candidates Gara  and Walker have released a joint ad urging voters to rank one another  second.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A look at the Marine Mammal Protection Act on it’s 50th anniversary, with a view from St Paul Island. Middle school students in  Ketchikan have spent more than a month learning songs in languages from  all around the world. And kindergarten and first-grade students in  Anchor Point are learning how to play the violin at school.

Students  in the Homer OPUS program perform at the Alaska Superintendents  Association conference at Lands End Resort on September 30, 2022. (Hope  McKenney/KUCB)