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On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Ryan Redington has won the 2023 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The only Cook Inlet beluga whale in captivity is celebrating five years at his aquarium home. And Southeast weather nerds try to predict the future.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Two Aleutian volcanoes  are showing signs of unrest, signaling the potential for an eruption.  The University of Alaska Fairbanks rifle team won the NCAA championship  over the weekend. Plus Iditarod leaders are tightly bunched. Tanaga, in  November 2012. Photograph courtesy of Roger Clifford

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Kotzebue and the Northwest Arctic Borough have declared a disaster after a series of massive snow storms. The  Kenai Peninsula Borough School District  is considering cuts to pools  and theaters in the face of a large deficit. And a new brewery is  opening in Sterling.

Photo: A Kotzebue home’s front is covered in snow on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Desiree Hagen/KOTZ)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: School bus service in  the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District resumed Monday after a  month long bus strike ended. Brown bear baiting will not be allowed in  the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, after all. And the latest Iditarod  update!

Photo: A brown bear cub looks for fish in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s  Kenai River on Aug. 14, 2020. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday announced  it will not consider an appeal seeking to overturn the ban on brown  bear baiting in the Kenai Refuge. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/U.S. FIsh and  Wildlife Service)

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A new bill introduced  in the state Senate last week aims to revamp the public retirement  system. The Iditarod trail sled dog race got underway this weekend. And an international meeting on arctic policy will host 13 countries for three days in Anchorage.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Alaska Native leaders  stood with the state’s congressional delegation rallying for the Willow  project at the U.S. Capitol yesterday. The Army Corps of Engineers has  cleared another milestone in the Unalaska Bay dredging project. And the  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gearing up for a three-year  investigation into potentially expanding Homer’s harbor.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: U.S. Senator Dan  Sullivan says we should investigate the possibility COVID came from a  lab in China. The Fur Rondy snow sculpture competition wrapped up on  Sunday. And Alaska’s melting glaciers are causing glacier tourism to  melt away, too.

On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: U.S. Secretary of  Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough visited Alaska last week. The U.S. Army  is proposing to replace Fort Wainwright’s coal-fired heat and power  plant with natural-gas fired boilers installed around the post. And the  former head of Anchorage’s equal opportunity office is suing Mayor Dave  Bronson and his administration in federal court.

On today’s Midday Report with host Mike Wall: The Iron Dog snowmachine  race got underway this morning in Big Lake. The Anchorage School  District says it intends to completely end its practice of locking away  students with behavioral issues. And  the Mat-Su school bus strike seems  no closer to resolution.