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  • Midday Report April 19, 2023

    On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A thirty foot Unangax̂ open skin boat will be the first of its kind to touch water in over two centuries. The Chilkat River has been nominated by as one of ten most endangered rivers in the country. And the Alaska House approved an operating budget on Monday that includes a 2700-dollar Permanent Fund dividend.


    Photo by Stephanie McGeary: Kanesia McGlashan-Price and Marc Daniels next to the nigilax̂ frame at Mind’s Eye.

     

    31 min
  • Midday Report April 18, 2023

    On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: After some record-breaking winter snowfall, Alaska is now approaching the start of summer wildfire season. Two bills being considered by the legislature would allow school districts to opt into the state’s health care plan. And the world’s largest flying salmon took its final swim upstream today on Monday.


    31 min
  • Midday Report April 17, 2023

    In today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A Superior Court judge

    in Bethel has dismissed a lawsuit accusing state officials of
    mismanaging Yukon River and Kuskokwim River salmon fisheries. Anchorage’s
    homelessness experts expect the number of people sleeping outdoors to
    swell from about 300 now to as many as 800 as the city’s three winter
    shelters close. And the Anchorage Assembly will maintain its progressive supermajority.

    Photo: he Sullivan Arena, Anchorage’s low-barrier emergency winter shelter, can

    sleep up to 200 people. (Elyssa Loughlin/Alaska Public Media)


    31 min
  • Midday Report April 13, 2023

    n today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: The eruption of a volcano

    this week on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has prompted some Alaska
    flight cancellations. Denali National Park will be radio-collaring
    grizzly bears this spring. And an advisory board has endorsed placement
    of a book on relationships and sexuality within the Ketchikan Public
    Library’s teen section.

    Photo: Shiveluch, one of Kamchatka’s most active volcanoes,



    32 min
  • Midday Report April 12, 2023

    On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Rep. Alyse Galvin has

    introduced a new bill to reimpose a state income tax, part of a broader
    proposal to address persistent state deficits. A labor department
    program to help immigrants gain employment in Alaska has been restarted,
    as hundreds of Ukrainian refugees are resettling here. And the City of
    Nome is working with retailers to limit alcohol sales.

    Photo: Front Street in Nome, in March 2017. (David Dodman/KNOM)



    31 min
  • Midday Report April 11, 2023

    On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Three Wasilla overdose

    deaths in less than 24 hours last week were likely due to counterfeit
    drugs containing fentanyl. In the small Prince of Wales Island town of
    Whale Pass a nearly 300-acre timber sale proceeds despite local
    opposition. And a 22 year old Russian Mission man faces over 100 years
    in prison after being convicted of murder, robbery, and assault charges.


    Photo: A marked tree in Whale Pass. (Photo courtesy of Maranda Hamme)

     


    31 min
  • Midday Report April 10, 2023

    On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska’s panhandle may

    look unchanging, but the area is moving rapidly in a geologic sense. The
    Division of Forestry is cutting firebreaks in anticipation of fire
    season.

    Photo: A heavy masticator like this was among the pieces of heavy equipment

    used by state Forestry and a contractor to clear vegetation from the
    fuel break the agency cut in an area west of the Delta River and the
    City of Delta Junction. The masticator knocks down trees and then grinds
    them up into chips. (Alaska Division of Forestry



    31 min
  • Midday Report April 6, 2023

    On today’s Midday Report with Terry Haines: Left-of-center candidates are leading in six out of seven Anchorage Assembly races. Anchorage Police officials say the timeline to put body cameras on officers has hit another delay. And a former Houston treasurer stole more than $1 million from the Mat-Su community and a Wasilla company where he later worked, according to federal prosecutors.

    31 min
  • Midday Report April 5, 2023

    On today’s Midday Report with Terry Haines: The treeline is moving

    north. A federal judge has ruled that ConocoPhillips can move ahead with
    the Willow Project. And Representative Peltola shys away from stands on
    gun safety measures and former President Trump’s guilt.


    Photo: The East Fork Toklat River, where the white spruce are marching northward. Photo by Kirk Stueve

     


    33 min
  • Midday Report 22 March, 2023

    This week on the Midday Report with host Terry Haines: There will be no sac roe herring fishery in Togiak this year. As Southeast Alaska otter populations have grown, so have calls to loosen the strict federal rules protecting them. And after losing half their population, humpback whales in Glacier Bay are rebounding.

    31 min

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